Today, the worlds of poker and eSports just got more intertwined, and the family affair is set to get wild.

It's not been too way back that Team PokerStars Pro, ElkY, joined up on some of the world's most renowned gaming teams. Now, that clan is getting even bigger.

PokerStars announced today that it has partnered with eSports legend Team Liquid and is bringing quite a few Team Liquid's stars as a part of the deal. A few of Team Liquid'stop players, already famous for his or her game play, may be streaming poker on Twitch and spreading the word of PokerStars across the globe.

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Team Liquid isn't any stranger to poker. In fact, anyone who have been across the game long enough remembers Team Liquid Poker, a domain dedicated specifically to poker. Now, PokerStars is an official Team Liquid sponsor.

Team Liquid has included a few of its biggest stars within the deal, including Janne "Savjz" Mikkonen, a player who already knows so much about poker but has focused more of his attention lately on Hearthstone.

"I'm actually no stranger to poker," Mikkonen said. I used to play so much previously. PokerStars is essentially the most respected and reliable company in that business, so I'm super excited to be sponsored by them."

Janne "Savjz" Mikkonen

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Mikkonen can be joined by Jeffrey "SjoW" Brusi, a living legend within the gaming community who spent his early years earning profits playing poker. He plans to sign up for Mikkonen at a couple of European Poker Tour events over the following year and remembers what it was love to grind the felt for a living.

"It's an excessively complex and fascinating game," Brusi said. "Having played some during one of the eSports events I attended, I'VE developed slightly of a drive to play more, and what better site to start out playing on than PokerStars! In case you wanna see an old poker player relearn the sport tune in to my stream."

Jeffrey "SjoW" Brusi

Rounding out the team could be Dario "TLO" Wünsch, an unconventional player with a high tolerance for risk who promises to make the poker tables an excellent more interesting place.

"Poker and StarCraft have always been two scenes which might be very with regards to one another. Both are games of incomplete information that experience a surprisingly high skill ceilings," Wünsch said. "I'm waiting for trying myself out in poker, and you will be in a position to see me learn the sport as a complete amateur on my twitch channel!"

Stay tuned for details on when the streams will start and whilst you can meet these players on the next PokerStars event.

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