Poker Nations Cup

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The Poker Nations Cup is an international poker tournament, televised on Channel 4 from March 2006 onwards.

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The series is commentated by Jesse May and Barny Boatman. Padraig Parkinson covered for Boatman in preliminary match 2.

The series was filmed in Cardiff, Wales. Thomas Kremser was the tournament director, and the dealers were Marina Kremser and Stevie Pollak.

The event in 2006 was sponsored by 888.com. In 2007 888.com has been replaced by Partypoker as main sponsors. The event will also be televised on Channel 4.

Format

Six nations compete in the series, with six members to each team. Each team has a captain and an internet qualifier.

The captain chooses one player from the six available to compete in each of the six preliminary tournaments (each player on the team plays once, and once only.)

Points are awarded for the finishing position of each player in each preliminary event. These points are totalled and used to calculate chips in the Grand Final. Points are awarded as follows:

Team captains can choose to substitute team members during the Grand Final, where the winning team receives $100,000.

(NB: As members of a nation's team never face other members of the same team, there is no possibility of collusion, as is possible in other team-format poker tournaments.)

Teams

NB: The flags within this article show the country the player is representing. e.g.: below Scott Gray is identified with the Irish flag as that is the country he is representing, despite Gray being born in Canada.

Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Dave Ulliott 1 Martin Wendt 1 Michael Keiner 1
Joe Beevers Christian GrundtvigChristoph Haller
Tony Bloom Theo Jørgensen Andreas Krause
Julian Gardner Rehne PedersenRoland Specht
Ram Vaswani Jan Vang Sørensen Katja Thater
Scott Griffiths 2Anders Jensen 2Sebastian Zentgraf 2
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Flag of the United States.svg  USA
Noel Furlong 1 Ken Lennaárd 1 Robert Williamson III 1
Don FaganAyhan Alsancak Andy Bloch
Scott GrayFuat Can Clonie Gowen
Rory Liffey Erik Sagström Thomas Keller
Padraig Parkinson Bengt Sonnert Kathy Liebert
Mahala Maria Roche 2Jens Lekström 2Gregory Jennison 2

1: denotes Team Captain
2: denotes online qualifier

Results

Preliminary rounds

EventWinnerRunner-upRemainder finishing order
Preliminary match 1 Flag of Denmark.svg Theo Jørgensen Flag of Ireland.svg Padraig Parkinson
  • Flag of the United States.svg Andy Bloch
  • Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Scott Griffiths
  • Flag of Sweden.svg Erik Sagström
  • Flag of Germany.svg Christoph Haller
Preliminary match 2 Flag of Sweden.svg Jens Lekström Flag of the United States.svg Gregory Jennison
  • Flag of Ireland.svg Scott Gray
  • Flag of Denmark.svg Anders Jensen
  • Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Zentgraf
  • Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Dave Ulliott
Preliminary match 3 Flag of Ireland.svg Mahala Maria Roche Flag of Germany.svg Katja Thater
  • Flag of Denmark.svg Christian Grundtvig
  • Flag of the United States.svg Thomas Keller
  • Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Tony Bloom
  • Flag of Sweden.svg Fuat Can
Preliminary match 4 Flag of Germany.svg Roland Specht Flag of Denmark.svg Rehne Pedersen
  • Flag of the United States.svg Robert Williamson III
  • Flag of Sweden.svg Ken Lennaárd
  • Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Julian Gardner
  • Flag of Ireland.svg Rory Liffey
Preliminary match 5 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Joe Beevers Flag of Ireland.svg Don Fagan
  • Flag of the United States.svg Clonie Gowen
  • Flag of Germany.svg Andreas Krause
  • Flag of Sweden.svg Bengt Sonnert
  • Flag of Denmark.svg Martin Wendt
Preliminary match 6 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ram Vaswani Flag of the United States.svg Kathy Liebert
  • Flag of Denmark.svg Jan Vang Sørensen
  • Flag of Sweden.svg Ayhan Alsancak
  • Flag of Ireland.svg Noel Furlong
  • Flag of Germany.svg Michael Keiner

Grand Final

Team captains chose three players to compete in the Grand Final. Only one player started, who then had to be substituted by the end of the third level. The second player had to be substituted for the third player at the end of the sixth level. Blind levels ran twice as long as in the preliminary heats.

Team captains were also entitled to call a 60-second time-out with any player in their team once per game.

The Grand Final's television broadcast spanned over two episodes.

Starting Lineup FirstPlayers after 1st substitutionsPlayers after 2nd substitutions
Flag of Denmark.svg Rehne Pedersen (3rd sub) Flag of Denmark.svg Christian Grundtvig (took time-out), (7th sub) Flag of Denmark.svg Theo Jørgensen (2nd elimination, by Liebert)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Joe Beevers (1st sub) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ram Vaswani (took time-out), (11th sub) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Dave Ulliott (winner)
Flag of Germany.svg Katja Thater (2nd sub) Flag of Germany.svg Roland Specht (took time-out), (10th sub) Flag of Germany.svg Michael Keiner (5th elimination, by Ulliott)
Flag of Ireland.svg Scott Gray (4th sub) Flag of Ireland.svg Padraig Parkinson (took time-out), (8th sub) Flag of Ireland.svg Don Fagan (4th elimination, by Ulliott)
Flag of Sweden.svg Ken Lennaárd (6th sub) Flag of Sweden.svg Bengt Sonnert (1st elimination, by Liebert)N/A
Flag of the United States.svg Andy Bloch (5th sub) Flag of the United States.svg Kathy Liebert (9th sub) Flag of the United States.svg Robert Williamson III (3rd elimination, by Fagan)

2007 Event

The 2007 event aired in March 2007 featuring teams representing Great Britain, USA, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands with the winning team receiving $100,000 prize money.

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