World Challenge Cup Poker Tournament

The latest big poker tournament that is going to be coming to television real soon was filmed yesterday at the Palms in Las Vegas. The World Challenge Cup is a tournament that puts the U.S. vs. The Rest of the World in a poker tournament. This is a great event and will be a fun one to watch. There are a ton of big time players in this event. Jesus Ferguson is the captain of the American squad and good ol Tony G is the captain of the World team. The format for the event is if an American player knocks out a member of the rest of the world team they get one point and vice versa. If someone knocks out a member of their own team they will receive zero points. The team with the most accumulated points will win the competition.

Here is a list of some of the players representing the American squad:

Chris Ferguson (captain), Paul Phillips, Tj Cloutier, John Juanda, Allen Cunningham, Michael 'Grinder' Mizrachi, Evelyn Ng, Layne Flack, Mike Matusow, Amir Vahedi, Kristy Gazes, Phil Ivey, Phil Gordon, Andy Bloch, Clonie Gowen, Scott Fischman, Erik Seidel, Paul Darden, Jennifer Harman, Huck Seed and Erick Lindgren.

Here are some members of the World Team:

Tony G (captain), Gavin Smith, Surinder Sunar, Paddy Parkinson, Marcel Luske, Hiroshi Shimimura, Mel Judah, Noah Boeken, Carl Olsson, Daniel Negreanu, Erik Sagstrom, Gen Watanabe, Haralabos Voulgaris, Ram Vaswani, Joe Beevers, Harry Demetriou, Carlos & Cece Mortenson, David Benyamine, and many others.

This tournament is sponsored by Full Tilt Poker and they sent ten online poker qualifiers to compete for a designated team as well. It should be a fascinating event and it will be broadcasted on Fox Sports Net fairly soon (no official date has been set for the airing as of yet).

I am pretty pumped for this event as it is the first of its kind in the poker world. I am all about team competitions as I think there is a lot more at stake when you are playing for others and not just yourself. It's kind of like the Ryder Cup, you just don't want to let your teammates down. When this hits the airwaves i'll be looking forward to throwing a Poker Party.