Just a few days after Jeff Gross and Jaime Stables announced the end of their contracts with PokerStars, the company has signed Ramon Colillas<\/a>, the winner of the PokerStars Player’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship, as their new brand ambassador. The poker star took the online poker industry by surprise when he emerged victorious at the $25,000 PSPC last month which saw him walk away with a whopping $5.1 million.<\/p>\n
According to Eric Hollreiser, the Director of Poker Marketing at PokerStars, Colillas represents the next generation of poker players. He also described the poker player’s journey as “stuff of legends” which references the fact that he managed to beat a whopping 1,039 entrants at the inaugural PSPC. The next event he will be participating in will be a \u20ac1,010 High Roller Casino Barcelona event in which he will be wearing the PokerStars patch for the very first time as he defends his CEP Leaderboard title. This will be followed by the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) in Sochi, then the EPT Monte Carlo, the EPT Open Madrid, the World Series of Poker (WSOP)<\/a> and finally the EPT Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Prior to winning the $25,000 PSPC, Ramon Colillas had only $12,000 in career tournament winnings and therefore it was quite surprising that with just win huge win he was already receiving an ambassadorship contract from PokerStars, which is considered to be one of the largest online poker sites on the planet.<\/p>\n
While PokerStars still boasts of the star power of accomplished poker pros like Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, and Jason Sommerville, there has been a significant number of other big names in the industry ditching the online poker site. While\u00a0\u00a0Jaime Staples and Jeff Gross<\/a>, the stars that have left most recently, have pointed out that their departures did not involve any “hard feelings” with the company, there are a few that do not agree.<\/p>\n