2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info

2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$2,300,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$15,132,000
Entries
1,560
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
25,000

RInk Sends Givens Out the Door

Level 23 : 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Paulo Rink
Paulo Rink

From the hijack seat, Mike Sowers raised. William "Imahustla1" Givens moved all in from the button for right around 400,000. In the small blind, Paulo Rink moved all in covering Givens. Sowers folded.

Givens: {A-Diamonds}{5-Spades}
Rink: {10-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}

The board ran out {Q-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{J-Spades}{4-Clubs} and Givens hit the rail in 39th place. Rink found himself stacking up to 1.55 million in chips after winning the hand.

Rink may not be known for his prowess on the felt quite yet, but more so for his skill on the pitch. Rink is a retired Brazilian-born German football (or soccer for us Americans) forward who gave up professional play in 2007.

Atletico Paranaense of the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A league was the club where Rink got his start before moving to the German team Bayer Leverkusen. He was transferred to the team for the hefty sum of $6 million USD, which up until that point, no one had been transferred from Atletico Paranaense for that sum of money.

Although he spent four years from 1997-2001, scoring 29 goals with Bayer Leverkusen in 88 appearances, Rink played for numerous other clubs. Nuremberg, Energie Cottbus, Olympiakos Nicosia, Vitesse, Jeonbuk, Omonia Nicosia and Atletico-PR were all stints for him following Bayer Leverkusen. Out of that latter group, Rink made the most appearances with Olympiakos Nicosia (21) and scored the most goals with Omonia Nicosia (23).

Outside of club play, Rink earned 13 international caps between 1998 and 2000 with the German national team. Rink was a naturalized German citizen due to his great-grandfather emigrating from Germany to Brazil in 1904, and became the first Brazilian to play for Germany. Although he didn't score any goals with that team, Rink has 98 career goals on his resume. It is said that Rink can't even walk the streets of Germany without being mauled by fans.

Back in August of last year, Rink placed 29th in the LAPT Florianopolis Main Event for $5,547. He's deep here int he 2011 PCA Main Event and has already locked up the largest cash of his career.

Tags: Mike SowersPaulo RinkWilliam Givens