One of the most important names in blended martial arts, no. 11 ranked UFC middleweight Paulo Costa is now an official ambassador for crypto-based poker web site CoinPoker, and is ready to reside stream a poker recreation on the location this Sunday on his YouTube channel.
He joins a star-studded group alongside former world champion boxer Carl Froch, and a few of the greatest on-line poker minds within the recreation – together with fellow Brazilian professional Olivio ‘Bigfat’ Gontijo, Triton predominant occasion closing tablist Mario Mosböck, Bobby James, Tony G and extra.
The legendary @BorrachinhaMMA
Has formally joined the CoinPoker Family as our New Ambassador!
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Exclusive freerolls
Signed merch giveaways
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Paulo Costa’s Passion For No Limit Hold’em And Crypto
Followers of Paulo – 800,000 sturdy throughout Twitter/X and YouTube – will know he’s a crypto fanatic, typically posting about Bitcoin and meme cash when he’s not discussing politics or the MMA and BJJ scene.
Originally from Minas Gerais, Brazil, Paulo found poker whereas coaching for fights in Las Vegas.
Speaking to CoinPoker, he described how he first acquired into Texas Hold’em.
“Whenever I watched poker tournaments for money on television, I was intrigued by that,” Costa recalled. “There was so much money involved, a huge fanbase of people from all over the world and many celebrities playing, well-known people from other sports, from other sectors. I thought, man, how interesting.”
“But I never knew how the rules worked, I had never played. I’ve always played Truco, which is very typical of Minas. But I’d never played a type of game like poker that can be played by several people, maybe 6, 7, at the same time, all competing against each other. So I started researching and then one of the times I went to fight in Vegas, we had the opportunity to go to the casinos and there were also some poker rooms and then I personally saw people playing and betting real money.”
“That sparked the desire to learn even more and I started playing it on some apps, no real money. After four, five, six months playing, I learned better strategies watching some live tournaments on YouTube. It increased my passion for it – the inclination for the desire to play and to learn and discover more and more. And then I started playing online against other people and then I started playing for money, real games, especially in Las Vegas but some times in my hometown also.”
“It was a surreal experience, like, getting super adrenalized, even betting a little, like, $50, $60, the adrenaline felt like I was betting my house, or a car worth millions. That’s when the whole mental and emotional aspect of the game came in. That made feel like I can say that the game is 90% mental, the mind game is strong to be able to make a bet when you have nothing or when you have a good hand, but not great and then an opponent comes and raises the stakes, you have to go all in and such.”
“So it really is a unique and very peculiar game, that touches all the emotions. The emotion that poker brings is indescribable. Only poker can provide that. That’s why it’s such a captivating game, which reaches more and more people every day. I’m a big fan and passionate player and I’m trying to learn more and more to be a better player. It really is a game that gets the adrenaline pumping. I’m addicted to adrenaline. And poker is a great place where I can live this experience and all the emotions at a poker table.”
Play Poker Alongside Paulo Costa on CoinPoker
CoinPoker hosts No Limit Texas Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha, in each money video games and tournaments – gamers will now have the chance to play in opposition to Paulo, together with freerolls aimed on the Brazilian market – hosted by Olivio Gontijo – in addition to worldwide gamers.
Paulo shall be reside streaming excessive stakes poker on his YouTube and the CoinPoker channels (Twitch and YouTube), chatting with gamers and giving freely unique autographed merchandise.
Paulo Costa’s first stream is that this Sunday at 2pm BST / CET on his YouTube channel and on CoinPoker’s Twitch and, tune in to look at the No Limit Hold’em motion and chat to the #UFC middleweight #poker https://t.co/fDZXb8Dm3v
— CoinPoker (@CoinPoker_OFF) December 13, 2024
The first reside stream by Paulo will happen on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 2 pm BST on CoinPoker’s Twitch (and his personal YouTube) with giveaways and free tickets to a $25 Paulo Costa PKO event (progressive knockout).
Being a blockchain poker web site, all nations are accepted and gamers wager with Tether (USDT), equal to US {dollars}. Stakes vary from as little as $0.02-$0.05 and free-to-enter tournaments, all the way in which as much as $1000-$2000 and better.
CoinPoker is understood for internet hosting the biggest pot in on-line poker historical past, an over $7 million PLO pot received by Tony G, and on the time of writing is internet hosting a Cash Game World Championship occasion with on-line poker crushers like LLinusLLove and DavyJones on the NLHE tables.
CoinPoker additionally not too long ago turned the brand new regional sponsor for the Argentina nationwide soccer group.
