While others are buried in the midst of a World Series or WCOOP, partypoker have decided to grow their ranks as they’ve brought on board Benjamin Pollak to be their latest poker pro attached to the ‘orange diamond’ team.

The French player, who has over $12 million in live tournament winnings across a stellar career at the felt so far, announced on Twitter that he was, “thrilled and very excited to join the partypoker team. They’ve supported the players from the beginning and see the game as I do! An exciting sociable and fun game! I [couldn’t] be more happy to support them and be part of this great adventure. See you all around the tables.”

Pollak is an undoubtedly big name to put his weight behind partypoker and with French markets opening up for the online giant, new tournaments are bound to follow and having a big name with an allegiance to that country is a smart move.

It seems a good fit for Pollak too, with the talented WSOP Main Event final table player joining players such as Hollywood film actor and comedian Kevin Hart, triple crown winner Roberto Romanello, poker legend Sam Trickett, former Poker Masters winner Dzmitry Urbanovich and the winner of the latest WCOOP event, Scotsman Ludovic Geilich.