World Cup of Poker

[sirio11]

Anybody playing or played in the World Cup of Poker in Poker Stars?
I think it's a really cool idea to represent your country playing poker. Just wondering if some trouts were in their National Teams.

[sirio11]

There were 40 teams in 8 groups with 5 teams each. All the games are NL Holdem heads up.The 40 teams are listed here
2 teams per group advanced to the round of 16. Interestingly, USA had 4 teams, USA, USA Cal, USA Ore, and USA Geo. And just one of these 4 teams advanced; USA Geo, and was eliminated by England in the round of 16. Team USA has Teecoy, TheBeat and David Williams in the team and couldn't get 1 of the top 2 spots in a group of 5 !!

As this writing the situation looks like this, with 3 teams (Scotland, Mexico and England) already in the quarter finals.

[touchfaith]

Two words...

POKER HOOLIGANS!! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[PrayingMantis]

I represented Israel. We have lost to Lithuania (2:3), Hungary (2:3) and TeamUsa (1:4), but beat Norway (3:2) in the Round-robin. 1:3 wasn't good enough, so we didn't make it to the round of 16 stage.

Personally, I won 3 out my 4 HU games, which was the best result in our team, but it didn't help us so much unfortunately. It's tough when poker becomes a "team" sport...

[PrayingMantis]

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with 3 teams (Scotland, Mexico and England) already in the quarter finals.

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Very nice job, sirio. You represent Mexico, no?

[Rekwob]

i represented wales, we beat sweden and brazil, but lost to costa rica and usa georgia, and 2-2 wasnt enough to go through. i finished 2-2 in my games as well, beating a no show from brazil and costa rica, losing to usa and sweden. it was good fun though, ill be attempting to qualify next year again

[sirio11]

Yes, praying, we won group H (Denmark,Scotland,Ireland,Canada-2 and Mexico)

I'm 5-0 so far in my HU matches, we need to win 1 more game to go to the semis in London. So, hopefully we beat the Scotts next Sunday; we already did it in the 1st round, but it was close (3-2). So far a very nice experience.

David

[Wee Stinker]

The tourney has been good fun so far. I am representing Scotland and am looking forward to a tough game v Mexico on Sunday for a trip to London. We finished 2nd in the group behind Mexico.

[Diamond Dave]

Hi there Sirio,

Personally I'm looking forward to our rematch on Sunday, when hopefully I will halt your glorious winning streak.

Otherwise, been an intersting comp, as the team aspect certainly puts an extra element of excitement into it. There have been a lot of good players in it as well.

And of course it's great to get to represent your country at anything.

See you on Sunday

Diamond Dave

[Wee Stinker]

Hey Dave, don't forget to mention that Scotland are already world champions at Elephant Polo.