Boris Becker Has a New Team
Nov 29th 2007ericjhoroPoker & Tennis
Chris Moneymaker, Gregg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu, and…..Boris Becker?
Yeah that’s right.
With his tennis days behind him the three-time Wimbledon champion has become the newest member of team PokerStars. Becker will begin playing in major European tournaments and he will appear in PokerStars commercials. Overall, he sounds really doggone excited about the whole thing.
“When I was still playing professional tennis, I started learning to play poker casually in-between games because it helped me to improve my concentration,” said Becker: “Now I want to develop my poker skills and challenge myself to become really competitive at the highest levels in poker.”
Becker and poker may sound like a strange match, but let’s face it, at this point the only thing keeping tennis going is heavy gambling on matches fixed by the mob. Well, that and Rafael Nadal’s nubile deltoids. The point is, gambling and tennis go together like Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anna Chakvetadze. Besides, it’s possible that Becker needs some cash, and being paid to sit for long stretches of time is a fine way to earn some. Just ask Jerome James.
2 Comments »
Mini Me on 29 Nov 2007 at 10:36 am #
You would think that being a great poker player would be a prerequisite to being on this exclusive Pokerstars team, but apparently not. This quote proves it: “Now I want to develop my poker skills and challenge myself to become really competitive at the highest levels in poker.”
Daniel on 29 Nov 2007 at 2:11 pm #
He’s especially *marketable* in Germany, where online poker is booming.