Tennis icon and Olympic gold medallist Rafael Nadal has signed on as the newest PokerStars ambassador.
The 26-year-old, 11-time Grand Slam champ will learn the game from current PokerStars pros and help promote online poker in Spain following the recent awarding of government licenses to online poker sites.
“It’s no secret that I love to compete,” Nadal said in a release, “and try my very best in everything, whether that’s tennis, golf or video games.”

Nadal will stick to tennis for most of the summer but when his schedule frees up in the fall he’ll start representing PokerStars in online poker tournaments, appear in more advertising campaigns and play in charity poker events. Fans can join Rafa on his poker journey on his own page at PokerStars and Twitter followers can use the #nadalpoker hashtag to send messages his way.
Rafa is also asking for your help, and wants you to send a video giving him your top poker tip.

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I’m playing a new game! I’m learning to play poker and with the help of the team at PokerStars, I’ll be more competitive :) Keep you posted on how I get on http://psta.rs/PSRafa