Holder of three WSOP gold bracelets, two WPT Main Event titles, and numerous other prestigious poker trophies, Antonio Esfandiari is certainly a well-known name on the international poker scene. This is why it should not be a surprise that the poker pro has been named Site Ambassador for recreational and professional staking platform StakeKings.
StakeKings is an innovative marketplace that provides poker enthusiasts with the chance to “buy pieces of their favorite poker pros” as the website’s description reads. In other words, the platform gives poker fans the opportunity to stake a professional or semi-professional player. Staking has been a common practice among people involved in any way in poker. To put it simply, it represents the act of paying a portion of a given player’s buy-in into a tournament of their preference and subsequently receiving part of their winnings.
StakeKings thus gives poker fans from all around the world the chance to back their favorite poker players and to win from this. The marketplace offers a number of packages and promotions by players who are known to be highly profitable. With the site being launched earlier in 2016, StakeKings players have accumulated a little less than $4 million in collective winnings. In addition, staking users have been paid back more than $500,000.
As a Site Ambassador, Esfandiari will be exclusively posting his staking promotions and packages in the marketplace.
Commenting on choosing the renowned poker pro as their ambassador, StakeKings CEO Eric Edwards said that they are happy to welcome a “fun, engaging, and most of all, successful” player and that given his fame, his staking packages will certainly prove to be ones in high demand.
Of the latest announcement, Esfandiari himself said that although he enjoys working with the StakeKings team, he is doing this for the fans. Being backed by poker enthusiasts from around the world will give him additional incentive to win, the poker pro added.
With live tournament winnings of more than $27 million, Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari is the third most profitable player in poker history (Daniel Negreanu and Erik Seidel being the only two poker pros ranking above him in the all-time money list). Despite his numerous achievements, Esfandiari is probably best known for winning the inaugural $1,000,000 The BIG ONE for ONE DROP event during the 2012 edition of the WSOP. Apart from a gold bracelet, the player also collected the impressive amount of $18,246,673 back then.
