Neymar’s poker side bet is no hobby: more than a decade in the game and over R$ 2.4 million in winnings

Neymar has spent the last 12 years treating poker as something closer to a second discipline than a pastime. For high-risk payment teams, the useful bit is not the celebrity angle; it’s the fact that poker sits in the same operational bucket as other money-moving, high-volume, regulator-sensitive leisure verticals.