Ohyama achievements in both online and live poker tournaments include $1.8 million in career earnings in just four years. He learned how to play poker while he completed his studies in the USA and returned to Japan to take up the game full time.
Team 888poker now consists of a solid line-up of ambassadors which include: Jackie Glazier, Nico Villa Lobos, Bruno Kawauti, Bruno Foster Politano and Sofia Lövgren.
The November Nine player will return for the final table of the 2014 WSOP Main Event with an 888poker patch hoping to bring the title home to Brazil for the first time.
Bruno Foster achievements over his 12 year poker career and reaching the final table of this years Main Event have earned him a sponsorship deal from 888poker.
888poker Brazilian team now includes: Bruno Kawauti, Nicolau Villa-Lobos and latest addition to Team 888Poker – Bruno Foster.
The Uruguayan professional footballer Luis Suarez joins Team 888 poker and will represent the brand as a global ambassador.
Luis Suárez will be playing live poker events and online poker at 888poker when his football schedule allows him to do so.
Suárez will be joining the list of 888Poker Ambassadors which consists of sportsmen: Shane Warne & Georges St-Pierre. The team of 888poker pros includes: JC Tran, Sofia Lövgren and Xuan Liu.
Team 888poker consists of poker pros and former sports stars with Shane Warne as the captain of the team which now includes: JC Tran, Jesse Sylvia, Jake Balsiger, Russell Thomas, Georges St-Pierre, Jackie Glazier and Jessica Dawley.
Sam Holden has just left the team and announced his semi-retirement from poker and is taking time out to get a degree in philosophy.
Mateos battled it out heads-up with Fabrice Soulier for more than four hours to defeat the french player in his own country.
This is the third bracelet won by a Team 888poker player throughout the WSOPE series.
There will be three $2,000 Gold Bracelet Freerolls to celebrate Team 888poker victories at the World Series of Poker Europe 2013.
JC Tran will represent 888poker as the chip leader at the 2013 WSOP Main Event on 4-5 November.
