Great Britain wins Poker Nations Cup
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Great Britain won the PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup that ended this week.
The team of professionals from the United Kingdom defeated six other teams in the tag-team poker format, where substitutions were allowed for each nation’s team in each of six “heats.”
According to pokerpages.com:
The winning GB team included team captain Roland De Wolfe, on-a-winning-streak Neil Channing, Surinder Sunar, Joe Beevers, Ian Frazer and online qualifier Charlie Durbin. Channing just came off the high of winning the Irish Open, as well as being the player that clinched the cup for their GB team.
In fact, Channing anchored team GB in a thrilling heads-up with Ireland’s Donnacha O’Dea. A turning point in the play came when Channing went all-in with 8 4 off suit, which got called by O’Dea’s 2 2. So Channing was behind on the flop and the turn only for a 4 to hit on the river which knocked O’Dea. Then O’Dea went all-in with 10c 3c, only to be called by Channing’s 10h 9h. A 10 on the turn gave Britain the cup, repeating their 2006 win.
Ireland finished second in the event, and the United States finished last out of the six teams.
