Eariler today, Refuse Gaming has announced that they will be signing former Magic: The Gathering player and Professional Poker player, Gabe "thegwalls" Walls to their Hearthstone team. Being a top-ranked competitive MtG player, Gabe has shown his skills in Card games by hitting Legend rank after only 3 days of playing.
In his youth, Walls was a highly respected competitor in MtG, finishing 8th in the 2003 Magic: The Gathering World Championship and claiming 6,500 in winnings. After his time of MtG and his professional Poker career, Walls decided to settle down on one card game, Hearthstone. During his interview for Forbes magazine, Walls said that what made him go to Hearthstone was that he saw a potential in the game and knew that the game was going to be a hit in the near future.
Walls recently signed for Refuse Gaming and play Hearthstone full-time instead of Poker or various other Card games. The following statement was made by Walls:
"I am excited to announce signing with the eSports Team Refuse Gaming! Through several conversations and many great meetings, I have fallen for their staff and look forward to representing them and their sponsors to the best of my abilities! Hearthstone is the future of CCG'ing and I am excited more now than ever to have a team and support system as amazing as Refuse! Look forward to the future and competing with the best this game has to offer!
Milos "Mikeylicious" Nedeljkovic, the Hearthstone Manager of Refuse Gaming, made this statement after signing with Walls:
"I'm looking forward into managing Gabe, a player that has such colossal achievemnts in the world of Poker & Magic: The Gathering. I have been working in eSports for almost 8 years now and I have rarely met such charismatic, humble and amusing person like Gabe is. I promise we will do everything to distribute finest content to Hearthstone community and many amazing Hearthstone matches.
Source: http://team-refuse.org/news/Refuse_Signs_pro_HS_player
