Fresh from her top-drawer 16th place finish at the World Poker Tour World Championships at the Bellagio in Las Vegas last week, up-and-coming pro Erica Schoenberg has been snapped up by MansionPoker.net in a high profile sponsorship coup.

That finish earned Schoenberg $100,000, but the three-year-deal with Mansion means the 28-year-old player from Ohio, USA, will be playing big-time poker for the immediate future.

MansionPoker, a company which had been strongly linked with a sponsorship deal with Manchester United football club, have agreed a ‘multi-layered’ arrangement, which includes a being bankrolled in live tournament poker, as well as duties as a MansionPoker ambassador and spokesperson.