Figueira da Foz is most known for its beach and for being the mouth of the most important Portuguese river, the Mondego. But from this weekend on, it is going to be often referred to as the town where one of the crucial biggest poker tournaments held in Portugal happened. The Portugal Poker Series Figueira starts on 10th June and there's a lot more too see than a typical poker tournament. Starting on a heads up match between a former Portuguese basketball star and a former Portuguese football star...

That's right! Before the Day 1B starts on Saturday, Portuguese Team PokerStars Pro João Nunes - who's also a former basketball professional player - will face Paulo Futre, among the best Portuguese footballers ever, in a Texas Hold'em heads up match in Casino da Figueira. Futre confesses that "João Nunes is the #1, but in 1987, after I was in FC Porto, we also defeated the massive Bayern Munich within the Champions League final. So... Why not?"

Former Portuguese football star, Paulo Futre

Futre is confident for the challenge, as he always was throughout his life. At the Portuguese national team he played 41 matches and scored 6 goals, during a career that included superb performances in Sporting Lisbon, FC Porto, Atlético Madrid, Benfica, Olympique Marseille, Reggiana, AC Milan, West Ham and Yokohama Flugels. After 15 years, 320 matches and 79 goals, Futre retired from the pitches and is nowadays a successful businessman who participated in lots of PokerStars events in Spain. This may be his first appearance in a poker tournament in Portugal.

That's only one more condiment of a large event a good way to attract to Portugal many pros and a number of other PokerStars players who qualified for this €700+€70 tournament during the PokerStars satellites. Besides João Nunes, the opposite Portuguese Team Pros, Nuno Coelho and Henrique Pinho could be in Figueira da Foz from 10th until 13th June to welcome the visitors, in addition to Team PokerStars Online André Coimbra.

Team PokerStars Pro Portugal: Henrique Pinho, João Nunes and Nuno Coelho

In the primary event of this up to date PokerStars circuit, held in Vilamoura last April, José Passos received €27.262 for the primary place after defeating a field of 146 players, including Team PokerStars SportStar Fátima Moreira de Melo.

Check out the Portugal Poker Series website for your entire schedule of this event and to grasp the right way to qualify for the following tournaments.

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