On Day 3 of the World Poker Tour Amsterdam, Felipe "Mojave" Ramos was sitting idle in the tournament room when a fan entered. "¡Vamos Mojave!" he shouted at the top of his lungs, waving a Brazilian flag. Never before had they seen such behavior at a poker tournament in the Dutch capital. Besides some crazy antics at WSOP final tables in recent years, poker had not seen many such actions at all.
Poker is, and always has been, an individual game. But Felipe has changed that in a sense. With thousands of fans on Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, he has an active following unprecedented in poker.