PokerStars has just recruited Mariya "Maridu" Mayrinck from Brazil to their team of sponsored poker pro's. Mariya is one of the most famous poker players in Brazil and now she has the chance to put Brazil on the map as she get to travel all over the world and play in the biggest and most important poker tournaments with some of the best poker players in the world.
In an interview with a poker magazine a very glad Mariya Mayrinck explains how important this will be for her poker career and that she now has a great opportunity to improve her poker at the same time as she gets to travel all over the world and play in some of the biggest tournaments with the best poker players.
About the Brazilian poker queen
Mariya Mayrinck is a producer for a big TV-network in South Africa and she has a huge interest for poker and gambling. In fact most of her free time goes to playing poker. Last year she was one of the most successful poker players from Brazil in WSOP and she was also seen on the front page of Cardplayer Brazil. Recently she signed a contact with the poker agency "Poker Icons"; it was this deal that helped her with the negotiations to get a contact with PokerStars. Also notable about her is that her boyfriend is the poker pro Jon "Apestyles" van Fleet.