How does aakkari get his roll?

[Rampage_Jackson]

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Quoted for amusement from PokerStars' blog article when Akkari joined their crew:

Over the past several years, Akkari's aggressive poker play has turned him into a successful and well-recognized player in his home country and on the international tournament circuit.

The write-up also asserts that he has accrued some $600k in donkament winnings.

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Thanks for sharing. That is what I was looking for.

[r3vbr]

I know akkari.. surprised he has an agressive image because I've always thought of him as an ultra-conservative player (as most Brazilian MTT players are).

He has a lot of patience for MTT play. Once I saw him in Uruguay playing and he cashed in a nice live MTT win of over 50k i think. oh and when you read that some mtt player has won 600k. you gotta ask that question "but how much did he lose?" (spend on buyins)

that said, he's definately one of the top 5 brazilian players.

[r3vbr]

I am really curious about how much pokerstars gives to these "team PS" players because I'll def. start giving more time to MTTs if I get a reasonably big bonus for this

[Ship Ship McGipp]

if a poker site ever realizes they should sponsor good players, it would be good for their PR

[Trivial]

In a recent MSNL thread a forum user posed the question (in reference to AAkkari) "Is this guy an aggressive player?"

PerDoom submitted the following rather apt response:

"If you can aggressively call, he would be one of the most aggressive players at 5/10. Otherwise, nope not aggressive. At all. "

[ryanghall]

Newsflash: probably more than half of Team PokerStars would be losing players online.

They're not picked because they're good online players, they're picked mostly because they're famous and can be representatives for places around the world. Most have also had a lot of live play success.

If they picked the best online players, nobody would have ever heard of them and it wouldn't make Stars any money.

Ryan

[leatherass]

I have him on my buddy list...lol

[nortonmalc]

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He's from a large emerging country which has experienced a prolonged period of strong economic growth, and which is currently underrepresented in the poker show-business. This means he's a highly marketable 'ambassador' for PokerStars.

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Elbonia?

[Rampage_Jackson]

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He's from a large emerging country which has experienced a prolonged period of strong economic growth, and which is currently underrepresented in the poker show-business. This means he's a highly marketable 'ambassador' for PokerStars.

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Elbonia?



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Lol, I was thinking it had to be Eastern Europe. He doesn't look Brazilian.

[Bulletproof Monk]

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if a poker site ever realizes they should sponsor good players, it would be good for their PR

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lol