Guess Which Poker Star’s Dad Has Won Two Tournaments This Year?

Gary Cordeiro, the dad of PokerStars ambassador and poker content material creator Marle Spragg, took down a poker event of his personal this week in Las Vegas.

Cordeiro’s event victory, which got here after a heads-up deal, occurred at Wynn Las Vegas in a $200 NLH Turbo occasion and earned him $4,922.

Like Daughter, Like Father

Spragg took to social media to rejoice her dad’s event win, which occurred to happen on the longtime poker content material creator’s birthday.

“He’s been engaged on his sport loads!” the PokerStars ambassador wrote on X. “You like to see it.”

Cordeiro, who Spragg has stated performed a pivotal position in getting her eager about poker, has amassed $78,782 in Hendon Mob earnings since his first dwell money in 2004. He had already received a event this 12 months after taking down a $150 Monster Stack on the Orleans on Jan. 3 for $2,736 after a remaining desk deal.

Final 12 months, Cordeiro picked up two cashes on the 2025 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP), whereas he additionally cashed the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo PokerStars Open Predominant Occasion.

His daughter, in the meantime, has earned $537,781 in dwell earnings since her first money in 2013, along with touchdown a PokerStars ambassadorship. The 2 performed the 2025 WSOP Tag Staff collectively and cashed for $1,055.

Spragg and Cordeiro are hardly the primary profitable parent-child duo in poker, with probably the most notable instance being Doyle Brunson and Todd Brunson.

Final summer season, Yosef Fox received the $10,000 Thriller Bounty for his first bracelet, six years after his son Jorden Fox received a bracelet of his personal.

Additionally in 2025, the father-son duo of Brett Emerick and Austin Emerick received the Free Poker Community (FPN) $200 Tag Staff Championship in Las Vegas.

A number of Poker Corridor of Famers are additionally seeing their sons get into poker, together with Phil Hellmuth and reigning Predominant Occasion champion Michael Mizrachi.

*Photograph courtesy of Wynn Las Vegas

Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 International Poker Awards for his writing.