Poker in Brazil is a huge success. The growth in the last decade has been exponential. The task wasn’t easy to complete in a country where the game is not regulated and where casinos doesn’t even exist. That’s why when this story began, nobody thought that this sport would be as big as it is now in the eternal joy country.

Ronaldo, one of many key players

The Brazilian Seris of Poker (BSOP), that this year celebrated its tenth anniversary, started as a dream, as an utopia. The first edition registered 65 players while the last edition in Sao Paulo registered 3.866 entries, a record for any event held outside Las Vegas.

The success of the event has a lot, or almost everything, to do with Igor Federal Trafane , the ideologue of this, the father of the baby, the brain behind the success of poker in Brazil.

Igor took 20 minutes off from a frenetical organization at the Sheraton Sao Paulo WTC and spoke to CodigoPoker about all that has been done so far. Serene, calmed, intelligent, talkative, ambitious, creative. A chat that helps us understand why the growth has been so big and we can catch a glimpse of waht’s to come. Because Igor is just starting…

From its role as Andre Akkari’s brother, through Felipe Mojave to Neymar Jr and Ronaldo. Igor is working actively in the Senate and the Congress to regulate this sport. Federal spoke to us in an inteview that can’t be missed.