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WSOP Event #17: Sunny ladies in the money

Monday, June 8th, 2009

wsop2009_thn.gifYou'd think that selling tanning machines would be tough in Las Vegas, a bit like trying to sell ice to eskimos. You'd be wrong: a tanning expo has just kicked off here in the Rio - I kid you not.

It's doing a busy trade by the looks of it, even though most people here are already tanned to within a crisp. While I don't dispute many men have a fondness for getting under the sun lamp, it's the ladies who make up much of the clientelle (so I'm told, anyway).

And there's plenty of ladies here today, back for day two of the WSOP $1,000 Ladies World Championship, bringing colour and laughter to the Amazon room as they hunt down a coveted bracelet and a $195,390 first prize.

This is poker at its most polite: the players chatter to each other, share out their gum or candy, and apologise when they knock someone out.

mariduladies2.jpgMaria "Maridu" Mayrinck

Team PokerStars Pro Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck - a former Stars blogger - is one of the 129 of the 1,060 starters who got to come back today, and has 25,500 chips with which to inflict maximum damage.

Not long after we started, the bubble burst, bringing the loudest cheer and round of applause we've had here since the series started. The bubble had been a few tense hands in coming. Katja Svendsen was the unlucky lady to go home with nothing

She'd already survived being forced all-in the big blind when her 5-8 outran Adeline Bui's 10-J, but with the blinds of 500-1,000 about to come around again she pushed with 8-8 but got lookedup by the same player with 10-10. Nothing changed, and the room erupted, much to the amusement of the neighbouring $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low event where the grizzled veterans prefer to play on in blissfull silence (well, most of them at least).

Maridu is finding this event to her liking. As I passed by she was raising during the bubble period to try and pick up some easy pots. But her table is by no means there for the taking - sitting opposite her is Maria Stern, who won a WSOP bracelet in 1997 in the $1,500 7-card Stud event.

sternladies2.jpgMaria Stern


Team PokerStars Pro locks up Mayrinck, Fernandez

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

teampro-thumb.JPGWhen the PokerStars Sunday majors kick off today, you will see a couple of new Team PokerStars Pros in the mix. Our old friends Maria "maridu" Mayrinck and Leo Fernandez have been signed to Team Pro, adding two new powerful South American card slingers to the already powerful team. Mayrinck and Fernandez played their first live events as Team Pro members in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

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If you you are a longtime reader of the PokerStars Blog, you may know that Mayrinck comes from our ranks. A few years back, the lady known as "maridu" was a popular Brazilian player and poker blogger. PokerStars seized on her skills and signed her up to write the first generation of the Brazilian PokerStars Blog. Mayrinck spent a couple of years covering every angle of Brazilian poker. All along, it was clear her heart was at the table. During her off hours, Mayrinck would play tournaments and get in action in any way should could. The one-time sociology graduate and television comedy writer finally made the jump to full time pro. Now, she is a member of Team PokerStars Pro.

Leo Fernandez is yet another player who cam from the ranks of the chess world and is now storming the poker tables. A chess player since he was a child, Fernandez reached the level of international master before turning himself in a poker pro. An adrenaline junkie, the Argentinian has made several deep runs in the World Series and on the World Poker Tour. He's now spending a lot of time on the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour.

You will find Mayrinck playing on PokerStars as "maridu." Fernandez will be playing under the name "LeoFernandez."

Congratulations to both players for reaching this milestone. We'll see you both in a couple of weeks when the Latin American Poker Tour hits Mar del Plata, Argentina.