{"id":217279,"date":"2022-06-14T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T00:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=217279"},"modified":"2022-06-16T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:04:26","slug":"world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neymar Jr. may be more accustomed to World Cups than a World Series. But the soccer superstar found his way to Las Vegas over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\"Neymar_World<\/a>
On Sunday, soccer superstar Neymar competes in a $10,000 Limit Hold’Em World Series of Poker event. While he did not survive the first day of the event, WSOP officials expect the Paris Saint-Germain forward to enter another event later this week. (Image: WSOP\/Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Brazilian national team standout and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) forward took part in the $10,000 Limit Hold\u2019em Championship, which started on Sunday.<\/p>\n

While Neymar attracted a lot of fans at the WSOP, he did not get a lot of luck or good cards. He wound up being eliminated in the sixth round of action.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hold\u2019em Championship, which started with 74 players, continued through Tuesday afternoon, as eight remained at the final table.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Neymar hosted \u201cNeymar & Friends,\u201d a poker tournament at Bally\u2019s \u2013 soon to become Horseshoe Las Vegas \u2013 with 16 top Brazilian poker players.<\/p>\n

Neymar\u2019s time at the WSOP apparently isn\u2019t done. A Caesars spokesperson indicated Tuesday that the soccer star plans to play another event later this week.<\/p>\n

Not Neymar’s First Poker Foray<\/h2>\n

The World Series isn\u2019t Neymar\u2019s first foray into poker. According to The Hendon Mob database, the 30-year-old has played in six tournaments, including two European Poker Tour events earlier this year in Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n

His best career finish was a sixth-place showing at a 2018 Brazilian Series of Poker High Rollers event in Sao Paulo that netted him $21,072.<\/p>\n

While poker may be a passion for Neymar, don\u2019t expect him to be quitting his day job any time soon. According to Forbes<\/a><\/i>, Neymar was the fourth-highest paid athlete in the world this year. He earned $70 million on the pitch and $25 million off it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only his PSG teammate, Lionel Messi ($130 million), NBA superstar and aspiring Las Vegas team owner<\/a> LeBron James ($121.2 million), and Portuguese soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo ($115 million) made more than Neymar.<\/p>\n

Ausmus Joins WSOP Four Timers Club<\/h2>\n

Neymar may be still seeking his first gold bracelet, but on Monday night, poker-pro Jeremy Ausmus earned his fourth when he won the $3,000 Limit Hold\u2019em.<\/p>\n

After finishing 24th<\/sup> and earning $17,481 in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold\u2019em 6-Handed event last week, Ausmus entered the third day of the Limit Hold\u2019em event as the second stack. However, according to PokerNews\/WSOP.com<\/i>, the final table featured some tumultuous play, and at times Ausmus found himself as the short stack.<\/p>\n

\n

It’s just kind of the nature of limit, well poker in general but limit especially is very aggressive with a lot of three-betting and raising flops and raising turns- it’s very volatile and frustrating at times,\u201d Ausmus told PokerNews\/WSOP.com<\/i>. \u201cBut then I just ran good against (Michael) Rocco who plays heads-up lots and the win feels good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ausmus beat out 212 others to claim the event, taking $142,147 out of the total prize pool of $568,710.<\/p>\n

He becomes just the 64th four-time bracelet winner in WSOP and is now eligible for WSOP Poker Hall of Fame consideration. Ausmus also joins David Peters and Scott Seiver, who also won their fourth bracelets<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neymar Jr. may be more accustomed to World Cups than a World Series. But the soccer superstar found his way to Las Vegas over the weekend. The Brazilian national team standout and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) forward took part in the $10,000 Limit Hold\u2019em Championship, which started on Sunday. While Neymar attracted a lot of fans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":217280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886,14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWorld Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A gold bracelet wasn't in the cards this past weekend for the PSG and Brazilian national susperstar, but he may try again soon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A gold bracelet wasn't in the cards this past weekend for the PSG and Brazilian national susperstar, but he may try again soon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-15T00:15:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-16T23:04:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/neymar_wsop.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"955\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Steve Bittenbender\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Steve Bittenbender\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/\",\"name\":\"World Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/neymar_wsop.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-15T00:15:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-16T23:04:26+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/eb30e765d812fc9b38b333f8d13068b2\"},\"description\":\"A gold bracelet wasn't in the cards this past weekend for the PSG and Brazilian national susperstar, but he may try again soon\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/neymar_wsop.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/neymar_wsop.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":955,\"caption\":\"Soccer superstar Neymar competes in a $10,000 Limit Hold'Em World Series of Poker event Sunday. While he did not survive the first day of the event, WSOP officials expect the Paris Saint-Germain forward to enter another event later this week. (Image: WSOP\/Twitter)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Poker Tournaments\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/tournaments\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"World Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Casino.org\",\"description\":\"Latest Casino and Gaming News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/eb30e765d812fc9b38b333f8d13068b2\",\"name\":\"Steve Bittenbender\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-7-1-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-7-1-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"Steve Bittenbender\"},\"description\":\"Steve Bittenbender covers Midwest and Gulport news for Casino.org. He also specializes in sports betting and horse racing. Steve is a veteran reporter and brings more than two decades of experience covering sports, business and politics. He joined Casino.org in 2019. Steve has also covered major collegiate and professional sports for the Associated Press and the Louisville Courier-Journal and is frequently featured on local network TV newscasts and podcasts for his horse racing business and legislative expertise. A Reuters contributor, he has also previously served as editor for Government Security News. Steve lives in Louisville, Kentucky -- the epicenter of the US horse racing industry -- with his wife and son. He is also an avid poker player, having learned from his uncle as a wholesome after-school pastime with cookies and milk. Contact Steve at stevebittenbender@casino.org.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/steve-bittenbender\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"World Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants","description":"A gold bracelet wasn't in the cards this past weekend for the PSG and Brazilian national susperstar, but he may try again soon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"World Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants","og_description":"A gold bracelet wasn't in the cards this past weekend for the PSG and Brazilian national susperstar, but he may try again soon","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/","og_site_name":"Casino.org","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews","article_published_time":"2022-06-15T00:15:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-06-16T23:04:26+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":955,"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/neymar_wsop.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Steve Bittenbender","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Casino_Org","twitter_site":"@Casino_Org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Steve Bittenbender","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/","name":"World Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/neymar_wsop.jpg","datePublished":"2022-06-15T00:15:19+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-16T23:04:26+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/eb30e765d812fc9b38b333f8d13068b2"},"description":"A gold bracelet wasn't in the cards this past weekend for the PSG and Brazilian national susperstar, but he may try again soon","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/neymar_wsop.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/neymar_wsop.jpg","width":1200,"height":955,"caption":"Soccer superstar Neymar competes in a $10,000 Limit Hold'Em World Series of Poker event Sunday. While he did not survive the first day of the event, WSOP officials expect the Paris Saint-Germain forward to enter another event later this week. (Image: WSOP\/Twitter)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-update-soccer-superstar-neymar-among-entrants\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Poker Tournaments","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/tournaments\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"World Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/","name":"Casino.org","description":"Latest Casino and Gaming News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/eb30e765d812fc9b38b333f8d13068b2","name":"Steve Bittenbender","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-7-1-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-7-1-96x96.png","caption":"Steve Bittenbender"},"description":"Steve Bittenbender covers Midwest and Gulport news for Casino.org. He also specializes in sports betting and horse racing. Steve is a veteran reporter and brings more than two decades of experience covering sports, business and politics. He joined Casino.org in 2019. Steve has also covered major collegiate and professional sports for the Associated Press and the Louisville Courier-Journal and is frequently featured on local network TV newscasts and podcasts for his horse racing business and legislative expertise. A Reuters contributor, he has also previously served as editor for Government Security News. Steve lives in Louisville, Kentucky -- the epicenter of the US horse racing industry -- with his wife and son. He is also an avid poker player, having learned from his uncle as a wholesome after-school pastime with cookies and milk. Contact Steve at stevebittenbender@casino.org.","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/steve-bittenbender\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}