An Italian PokerParty

The Italians had a big Sunday yesterday and I'm not just talking about the Italian soccer team that won the World Cup I'm also talking about Max Pescatori as he won his first World Series of Poker bracelet. He took home the first prize in the $2,500 No Limit Event. You can surely see that the Italians would have had a World Cup after party and in Vegas there was surely to be the same, and you can throw in a serious PokerParty to go along with it. This years World Series has been one of excitement thus far and there has been a tremendous mix of rookies and veterans taking home the bracelets. This is only going to continue to be exciting to watch and let's see if the veterans can take down the rookie poker players.

In other news, Todd Brunson has introduced "Team Brunson" at this years World Series of Poker. Team Brunson will compete in every televised World Series of Poker Event. Todd Brunson hand picked each poker player to be a part of this team. Members of Team Brunson are: Cyndi Violette, Max Pescatori (just one his first WSOP bracelet), Hoyt Corkins, David Levi, Sam Grizzle, Dewey Tomko, Jennifer Leigh, Marco Traniello, Jeffrey Freedman, and Thomas Franklin. These teams are becoming ever more popular and I'm sure you will start to see more and more of these as the years progress. You could probably start to see tournaments starting up to have a team versus team event. This would be a great idea and a lot of fun to watch as you would have two star studded teams battling it out. Stay tuned for further poker stories and rumors.