A day at the 2021 WSOP Main Event with NBA All-Star Tony Parker and Jean-Luc Adam, a World Champion
Tony Parker became the first player to qualify for this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event. Parker punched his qualification ticket when he won a charity event known as the Big Game Poker Tournament that was held last January of 2021 in San Antonio. In that tournament, he beat out 218 players. Long known as a poker enthusiast, Parker got the opportunity to prove that he can play high-stakes cash games.
Over the same day, Jean-Luc Adam, a French expat, who lives in Saint Martin in the Caribbean, defeated Eugene Salomon ramping up $255,623 at the Event #58: $1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em and ended up to take down the golden bracelet.
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That is his first bracelet but he has already earned two rings in his career for tournament play up to that point.
He spoke humbly about his passion, how lucky he was to have a cycle of successes he could manage without being impassioned even though he had a cycle of bad luck too, and said that it was unexpected, he could not realize it yet. He thought that it was inaccessible!
For his efforts, the icing on the cake was that it was Tony Parker, an athlete and a person he is fan and admires, who awarded him his bracelet later on.
To end the cerebration and the day, the GGPoker had organized a VIP party at the VooDoo Rooftop Nightclub at Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. Located directly above the elegant and exotic VooDoo Steakhouse, I headed up to the rooftop with Fabien Richard, a French journalist of Poker, who has created a blog called “Au Coeur de Vegas” and who is active on PokerVoyageur, accompanied with David Guay, a professional poker player and creator of the “Until I’m Done” brand and Julien Pérouse, a professional poker player and founder of Step Up Poker.
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