If you want evidence, consider that one year ago Garcia also played in the PCA main event but lasted just a few short levels on his Day 1 heat.
This year he's managed to advance to Day 3 in the same tournament.
That's three times as far at least, indicating to us that he’s at least three times as good as he was in 2011.
He hasn't increased his speed much, according to a few reports from his table, but we'll give him a pass on that as that's how he plays golf too.
“Any time you try do something at a high level it’s going to be tough and there are going to be some similarities,” Sergio told us when we spoke to him a year ago.
“There’s a huge mental game in both and it’s important to have mental strength,” he said.
While it is true that Sergio Garcia has no real poker results per se, he did win a televised celebrity event sponsored by PokerStars in Spain.
Check out Garcia here deftly folding A-7 when his opponent had pocket aces. Spanish fluency not mandatory.
And a few pictures we picked up in the Bahamas last year.
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