Former longtime PokerNews content material creator Pamela Maldonado’s life has gone “full circle” after signing a contract to cowl faculty soccer for ESPN, the most important sports activities media outlet on the earth.
The sports activities betting analyst accepted a place with the worldwide chief in sports activities after having labored previously few years with Yahoo! Sports activities and the VSIN sports activities betting community. Earlier than that, she spent almost seven years within the poker trade, beginning out in 2012 as an intern for PokerNews earlier than changing into our social media supervisor, a job she left in 2019.
Maldonado expressed her pleasure for touchdown such a outstanding function in a tweet. She defined that she moved to Las Vegas in 2012 to get into poker media, and when she left the trade, she “had no clue what was subsequent.”
The most recent member of ESPN’s faculty soccer workers credited her relationship with poker reporters corresponding to Andrew Feldman, the previous editor of ESPN poker, for her sports activities betting profession taking off.
Maldonado, who resides in Austin and graduated from the College of Texas in 2007, was a outstanding poker media member within the 2010s earlier than leaving the trade. Her final article for PokerNews was in Might 2019, a report on Daniel Negreanu tying the knot with Amanda Leatherman.
“Pamela has established herself as a revered voice within the sports activities betting house, and can present nice perception and depth to our general sports activities betting protection,” stated Scott Clark, Vice President, Fantasy & Betting Content material of ESPN in a press launch. “Pamela has in depth betting expertise throughout many sports activities, together with soccer, and the timing is ideal as we gear up for the school soccer and NFL season.”
The press launch explains the previous poker content material creator’s upcoming function at ESPN. She’ll turn out to be a “key addition” to ESPN’s sports activities betting protection through the faculty soccer season, which kicks off later this month. Maldonado can even present insights and betting evaluation round different sports activities, together with the NFL, primarily for ESPN.com’s betting editorial protection.
