Team PokerStars Pro Adds Horecki, Gomes
Team PokerStars Pro has added two more members in recent days, in Poland's Marcin Horecki and Brazil's Alexandre Gomes. Horecki, one of the highest-ranking Polish players ever, is among a handful of emerging names who came to poker by way of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, and has had several nice finishes in recent European events. Gomes, the breakthrough winner of Event #48, $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em, in this year's WSOP, represents a part of PokerStars' new efforts into the emerging South American poker market.
Horecki, in addition to his Magic training, was once a member of Poland's national alpine ski team, before injuries halted that career. Horecki began a career in corporate finance while also building up a bankroll on Stars, beginning at the smallest tables and working his way up. Horecki has also become a regular face at major European poker stops, and has picked up three cashes in EPT events since 2006.
Gomes joins countryman Andr�� Akkari on Team PokerStars Pro as part of the site's public face toward Brazil and South America. The 25-year-old is another online veteran, known on Stars as "Allingomes", whose breakthrough WSOP win was worth an astonishing $770,540. Gomes triumphed at a final table featuring Marco Johnson, Kirill Gerasimov and other formidable foes. The $770,540 cash is easily the largest of Gomes' career, and represents his first significant "live" cash. It is also the first-ever WSOP bracelet captured by Gomes, who now has to think about poker as a career in addition to his training as a lawyer.
