British Team Wins at PartyPoker.com Event :1
Top online casino, PartyPoker.com hosted its 2008 Poker Nations Cup recently and
the team that came out on top was a group of six players from Great Britain. The
English team’s lucky winners are Joe Beevers, Ian Frazer, Surinder Sunar, Neil
Channing, their team captain: Roland de Wolfe and the online casino’s VIP online
qualifier for the region Charlie Durbin. Many online casinos have land based
tournaments like this which feature the online players, but not all are as
exciting as this one. The team from Great Britain defeated the team from Ireland
in the final round to take home the GBP 100,000 grand prize, the title, and some
well deserved bragging rights.
The second place team, Ireland went home with a pretty handsome reward from the
online casino poker tournament of $30,000. This was an exciting tournament and
it really was not clear who was going to take home the first place trophy until
the very end. It seems like this year every team brought their A-game. Germany,
USA, Holland and Sweden all played great rounds up until their eliminations. The
eliminations happened after the teams took part in a tag team final. The
judgment of the team captain was of utmost importance in this part of the game
because the captains decisions on when to call a time out or when to substitute
a player could make or break the teams chance at the big pot.
A lot of the credit for the British team’s victory has been given to Neil
Channing’s intelligent playing. However we cannot deny that the strategy used by
the team captain de Wolfe needs to be given proper acknowledgment. De Wolfe
could not keep his excitement under wraps, he told a reporter, “I’m absolutely
delighted. In many ways it is even better to win a team event for your country
than win an individual title. I am so proud that the selections for my team were
vindicated.” The online casino, PartyPoker.com who hosted this exciting
tournament is very excited about the turnout for this tournament and hopes other
online casinos follow in its steps.