We are excited to kick off WSOP Europe in Cannes, France one
week from tomorrow! For those of you coming, we look forward to having you. For
those who can’t make the trip, WSOP.com will provide live streaming, live
updates, chip counts, photos, results, etc.
ELKY
& HELLMUTH FINALIZE CAESARS CUP TEAMS
Europe
will take on Americas for Caesars Cup
at
WSOP Europe Presented by Barrière Poker
September 29, 2011 – In what is shaping up as a battle
of youth versus experience, the Caesars Cup at this year’s World Series
of Poker Europe is set to answer the question: Is
experience or aggressiveness more important in today’s poker?
Europe will feature a team with five combined WSOP gold
bracelets and take on an Americas team featuring the top three WSOP bracelet winners
of all-time and an astonishing 39 WSOP gold bracelets. And in terms of age,
there is a big discrepancy as well. The Americas average age is 51, while the
Europeans are nearly half that average at just 27 years old.
All players for each team – the Europeans and the
Americas – has been officially selected by each captain.
Here are the teams and comments from the Captains on why
they selected each player:
Team Europe:
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier –
France (Captain)
ElkY on the team he assembled: “I am very confident in
my team,” said Grospellier. “We will show the Americas that 2009
was not an upset!”
Jake Cody – United Kingdom
ElkY on Cody: “Winning the Triple Crown in
just one year is an incredible feat, especially considering the tournaments he
won. There will be lots of heads up matches and he is the reigning Heads Up
champ for having won the WSOP $25K this year, so he’s an easy
pick.”
Gus Hansen – Denmark
ElkY on Hansen: “He’s been one of the
best players in the game for a while and has a way of thinking a bit similar to
mine that I realized even more when we played the first Caesars Cup together in
London. He also has lots of experience playing most of the guys Hellmuth could
pick, so he’s perfect!”
Dario Minieri – Italy
ElkY on Minieri: “Another member of the
victorious European team in 2009, his huge experience in heads-up Sit n
Go’s online back in the day makes him a prime candidate to defeat the
U.S. team, because his unique style is very hard to adapt to.”
Maxim Lykov – Russia
ElkY on Lykov: “He’s been having huge
results lately. I respect his game very much and I also think his style of
play is perfect to counter the picks of Phil!”
vs.
Team Americas: Phil Hellmuth –
USA (Captain)
Hellmuth on the team he assembled:
"These idiot Northern Europeans think they know everything about the game
of poker," joked Hellmuth. "Well, we plan to show them that decades
of experience are much more valuable than clicking a mouse while sitting in
your pajamas. In all seriousness, we look forward to the challenge and the
opportunity to return the Caesars Cup to American soil."
Doyle Brunson – USA
Hellmuth on Brunson: “A must
have pick for Team Americas! Texas Dolly is the biggest icon in the game. A
huge legend in the poker world with 10 WSOP wins. Dolly has been crushing kids
for 50 years, so he's perfect for the team.”
Johnny Chan
Hellmuth on Chan: “One of the
toughest players in the poker world for decades! Chan has 10 WSOP wins, and
has made money in the biggest cash games on the planet for 30 years straight!
Along with Dolly and me, we have 31 WSOP wins, bring it Europe!”
Daniel Negreanu – Canada
Hellmuth on Negreanu: “Daniel has earned his
place on the team with four WSOP bracelets, and two WPT titles, along with the
fact he is way up there on the all-time money winning list! Daniel has worked
hard to learn the math in heads-up matches, and his enthusiasm is prized by a
Captain like me.”
Huck Seed – USA
Hellmuth on Seed: “Huck is an
amazing player who has four WSOP wins, and who won the "NBC Heads Up"
last year and also won the Canadian Heads Up Championships! In the head up
format he will be invaluable for the team.”
The Caesars Cup will feature the game No-Limit Hold’em
with two teams of five doing battle over a series of unique partner and heads
up formats, with points awarded for each victory. The unique formats will
include alternate betting and other non-traditional elements as players aim to
win points for their respective teams.
The format will be best three out of five, with the first
team to three points declared the winners.
The unique Ryder Cup-style poker event pits teams of the
best players from both sides of the Atlantic against each other on Wednesday, October 19th at 10 AM.
The Caesars Cup
is a made-for-television special that will air as part of televised 2011 WSOPE
coverage.
Pride, bragging rights and claiming the Caesars Cup are all
up for grabs at the event. It will be contested during this year’s World Series of Poker Europe Presented by Barriere
Poker taking place at the Casino Barrière de
Cannes Croisette and the Hôtel Majestic Barrière in the beautiful seaside
locale of Cannes, France from October 7 to October 20.
The event was last played in in London, during the 2009 WSOP
Europe. Team Europe, captained by former WSOPE Main Event champion Annette
Obrestad, and featuring the likes of ElkY, Hansen and Minieri, easily defeated
Team Americas, captained by Daniel Negreanu and featuring poker legends Doyle
Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Phil
Ivey.
ABOUT WSOPE
Launched in 2007 by Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc.,
owner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the WSOPE is the first tournament
extension of the world’s richest and most prestigious gaming event.
WSOPE is now held in Cannes, France after four consecutive years in London, England.
The WSOPE awards the same coveted gold bracelets that the WSOP awards annually
in Las Vegas.
In its first four years, WSOPE has awarded 16 gold bracelets, the first
bracelets ever awarded outside the United States, of which ten
different nations have claimed. A total of 4,389 entrants have competed for £21,392,500 in prize
money. Please visit www.wsop.com/2011/WSOPE
for more information.
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