Enjoying life! Neymar finished second and earned over $60,000 at a POKER event

Brazilian football sensation Neymar finished runner-up at $5,200 Titans Event at PokerStars last weekend. Although Neymar collected $66,056, he will be bitterly disappointed not to have come out on top and added the Titans Event title to his long list of personal accomplishments.

Neymar fans will likely see more of their hero at the live and virtual felts in the coming months because he faces a spell on the sidelines. Last week, while representing his country in a World Cup qualifying game against Uruguay, Neymar landed awkwardly and left the field in tears on a stretcher. Tests later confirmed a meniscus tear injury to Neymar's knee and a season-ending Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tear. Neymar faces up to a year in the treatment room.

Football's loss looks to be poker's gain. Neymar decided to fire up PokerStars on October 22 and flick in the $5,200 buy-in for the Titans Event. It was a drop in the ocean for the man who recently put pen to paper on a two-year deal worth a reported $219 million annually. But as Team PokerStars' Rafael Moraes revealed to PokerNews last year, Neymar does not play poker for the money; he just wants to win.

This weekend's Titan Event saw 59 entries processed, a lower than usual number. The compact field meant only the top seven finishers received some of the $295,000 prize pool.

Heads-up pitted Neymar against Lithuania's Dominykas "Mikensonas" Mikolaitis in the final. Both players were guaranteed at least $66,000 for their performances, but the all-important title and an additional $35,000 awaited the champion. 

Brazil has never faced Lithuania on the football field, so the inaugural battle took place at the PokerStars tables. The crocked Neymar had to settle for second place this time