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Two of the world's most recognizable poker players have more in common than being from Canada. Both Daniel Negreanu and Jonathan Duhamel also compete under the Pokerstars' moniker and frequently play against other poker players from their own country and all around the world at Pokerstars.com. With his dominating online play and unrivaled poker tournament record, Daniel Negreanu is known for his winning ways as much as he is for being an ambassador of the game. Duhamel has been acknowledged as one of the game's best players since he won the WSOP Main Event in 2010.

With the spread of poker throughout England, it's no wonder that some of Team PokerStars' youngest members are British, including Jude Ainsworth, Victoria Coren, and Liv Boeree. Having recorded multiple six-figure cashes online, Ainsworth often demonstrates his poker prowess by playing at Pokerstars as "j.thaddeus." Quickly becoming known as much for her poker skills as for her impressive work as a journalist, Coren continues to be a regular guest on some of England's popular television programs. Boeree has led the rise of poker's popularity in Great Britain since she won the European Ladies Championship in 2008.

Australians can enjoy the chance to play poker with people all over the world, including professional players like Daniel Negreanu and Viktor Blom on Pokerstars! Due to their skill and the time they've invested in playing on Pokerstars, Negreanu and Blom have had tremendous success playing poker online. Negreanu is irrefutably one of the world's best tournament players. Not to be outdone, Blom, also known as "Isildur1," has steamrolled most of the competitors he's faced in high-stakes cash games during the past 24 months.

Viktor Blom is easily one of the most, if not the most, talked about Swedish poker players. For a few years, Blom was known only as "Isildur1" as he accepted personal challenges to play high-stakes cash games and won and lost millions of dollars every few weeks playing poker online. Now known by his real name on the poker circuit, Blom often plays the game that ricocheted him to fame and fortune on Pokerstars. Because of his success, many of his countrymen have adopted playing styles that closely resemble Blom's renowned fast and aggressive approach to poker.

Many highly-respected poker players have come out of the Netherlands, including World Series of Poker staple, Marcel Luske. Luske's engaging personality and traditional playing style have made him the most recognizable and popular of all the Netherlands' professional poker players. Not even his entertaining behavior and playing talent combined with his proven ability to teach others to play poker are enough to make Luske the only Netherlands native to play for Pokerstars, however. In addition to Luske, Fatima Moreira del Melo, Lex Veldhuis, and Noah Boeken also play poker at Pokerstars regularly.

Because Italy has its own Pokerstars site, many of its residents have developed an appetite and aptitude for poker. Italians of all professions seem to be drawn to the game and this is reflected in the mix of individuals who make up Italy's Pokerstars team. Famous soccer player, Gigi Buffon, and former computer programmer, Luca Pagano, are part of Italy's team and play regularly on the county's Pokerstars website. Other renowned Italians on the team include Dario Minieri and Pier Paolo Fabretti who developed their fierce competitiveness playing, Magic: The Gathering. Minieri and Fabretti can also frequently be found playing poker on Pokerstars.

If competiveness can really give a poker player an edge, it's not wonder why Russians like Ivan Demidov excel at the game. A Pokerstars professional, Demidov finished second in the World Series of Poker in 2008. Refusing to rest during the days before the WSOP's final table in America, Demidov participated in the WSOP Europe Main Event and earned a seat at a second final table. As competitive as Demidov, Russian Pokerstars pros Alexander Kravchenko and Maxim Lykov are not only among the best players in their country, they are counted with Demidov among the best in the world.

Germans can boast about their country being the home of some of pokers rising stars, including Pius Heinz, the champion of 2011's WSOP Main Event. Heinz, who is from Odendorf, claimed victory over 6,865 participants as well as $8,715,638 in winnings by using the skills he perfected while playing poker against countless others on Pokerstars. Other notable German players, including George Danzer, Sandra Naujoks, and Jan Heitmann are also frequent visitors on Pokerstars.

Online poker's popularity is growing by leaps-and-bounds in Spain thanks, at least in part, to Pokerstars. Juan Manual Pastor and Ana Marquez are Team Pokerstars professionals and typify the enthusiasm and talent that many Spaniards have for the game of poker. Previously a professional marketing genius, Pastor has had such success with what his grandfather taught him about poker that he replaced his former career with playing the game full-time. Pastor won more than $300,000 in 2011 at the EPT London event alone. After completing her college thesis on the growth of poker in the United States, Marquez decided to master the game herself. As one of Spain's top competitors, Marquez is one of the best young poker players in the world.