Brazilian Model Teaches Poker Players How To Celebrate

They love their football, they love the Pope, and as we found out recently, above all they love their home game heroes. Especially when their home game heroes come with glass-cutting cheekbones and extra abs.

We bring this up because it’s not often you see a poker player mobbed by joyous fans, but if you want to see an intense combination of culturally normalised effusiveness, sweat-mania, and intoxicating homoeroticism watch the crowd in this clip of male model Ecktor Lopes winning all or nothing tournament. It is hard not to be carried along by the crowd’s extatic response to his winning a Platinum Pass to PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship.

Ecktor Lopes whose profanity laden hat will no doubt be setting trends all across the poker world won his seat in the tournament by taking part in a tombola at the BSOP. Stars are handing out a bunch of these passes to tournament winners and in various draws like Lopes’. Winner’s get entry to the $25,000 Bahamas based NLH event and some walking around money.

Lopes has been playing poker in home games for five years now, but sees himself very much as an amateur at the table. His real calling will always be being really, really ridiculously good looking.