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Neymar falls flat, finishes last at final table of online poker tournament
Neymar hoped to add a poker title to his litany of club and international soccer honors on Wednesday. Needless to say, it wasn’t in the cards for the Brazil superstar.
Neymar reached the final (virtual) table of the Super Tuesday High Roller event at the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker 2025, competing for a top prize of $186,434. But facing off against poker professionals and at a severe chip disadvantage, the soccer star didn’t last long before bowing out of the tournament. He finished in last place out of the seven players.
The 33-year-old forward entered the round with the fewest chips of anyone, holding less than one-third of the chip leader’s total. Despite his disappointing showing on Day 2, he still took home $26,111 after a $10,300 buy-in — not bad for a day’s work playing poker on the internet.
Neymar has been a mainstay on the high-stakes poker circuit for many years, and he has expressed plans to play professionally after retiring from soccer. In 2022, he made his first in-person appearance at a World Series of Poker event in the United States, but was eliminated before the end of Day 1. Back in 2018, he even posted a photo on Instagram back in 2018 of himself playing poker at home while he was recovering from an injury … and while Paris Saint-Germain, his club at the time, were busy clinching the Ligue 1 title.
If that isn’t enough proof of his obsession with the game, he even named his first pet dog “Poker”!
After spending six seasons with PSG and two in Saudi Arabia with Al Hilal, the forward now captains his boyhood club, Santos, in the Brazilian Serie A. He has three goals in 12 appearances so far this season. However, he was left out of the latest Brazil squad by coach Carlo Ancelotti with the 2026 World Cup in North America fast approaching.
ESPN’s Doug Greenberg contributed to this report.
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The Washington Nationals are set to go outside the box with their reported managerial hire.
The team will hire 33-year-old Blake Butera as their new skipper, per multiple reports. Butera would become the youngest person to manage in the big leagues since 1972.
Frank Quilici was also 33 years old in his first season as manager of the Minnesota Twins.
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Hudson Valley Renegades manager Blake Butera posts the lineup before Wednesday’s game at Dutchess Stadium in Fishkill on July 10, 2019. (Patrick Oehler/Poughkeepsie Journal via Imagn Content)
Butera had previously been the senior player development director for the Tampa Bay Rays. He has named to that role in October 2023 after spending four seasons managing in the minor leagues.
In his first season as manager in the minor leagues, he was just 25 years old. Over those four seasons, he had a 258-144 record with four first-place finishes. In Butera’s last two seasons managing Low-A Charleston, he won league championships and went 170-82.
Butera transitioned to coaching after spending two seasons as a player in the Rays’ minor league system. Across his two seasons in the minors, he had a .235 batting average.
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Blake Butera (10) of Team Italy poses for a photo during the Team Italy 2023 World Baseball Classic headshots at Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in Taichung, Taiwan, on March 4, 2023. (Mary DeCicco/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
He was drafted out of Boston College in the 35th round of the 2015 draft. Butera played four seasons at BC and was the team’s captain.
The Nationals fired manager Davey Martinez and general manager Mike Rizzo in July. The pair had helped lead the franchise to a World Series title in 2019.
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Hudson Valley Renegades manager Blake Butera poses at Dutchess Stadium in Wappingers Falls, New York, on June 12, 2019. (Patrick Oehler/Poughkeepsie Journal via IMAGN)
Martinez had a 500-622 record across nearly eight seasons at the helm. Interim manager Miguel Cairo had a 29-43 record after Martinez was fired.
The Nationals hired former Boston Red Sox general manager Paul Toboni in September to replace Rizzo. They hope the combination of Toboni and Butera can help lead the Nationals back to the World Series.
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