2011
WSOP EUROPE TO REPRISE UNIQUE TEAM EVENT
Europe
will take on Americas for Caesars Cup
at
WSOP Europe Presented by Barrière Poker
September 9, 2011 – Some of the best poker players
from Europe and the Americas are set to again battle it out at this
year’s World Series of Poker Europe in the Caesars Cup, a unique Ryder
Cup-style poker tournament that pits teams of the best players from both sides
of the Atlantic against each other.
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 unique event will be played on Wednesday, October
19th at 10 AM, with the tournament being fought out on the feature table.
The event was last played in in London, during the 2009 WSOP
Europe. Team Europe, captained by former WSOPE Main Event champion Annette
Obrestud, easily defeated Team Americas, captained by Daniel Negreanu and
featuring poker legends Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth
and Phil Ivey.
“Team Americas has a score to settle after what most
considered a colossal upset in London,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart. “You see a real rivalry
developing as European players continue to win more tournaments around the
world.”
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.
Each team will feature five top players, with the Americas
team captained by current WSOP Player of the Year leader Phil Hellmuth and the Europeans
skippered by the flame-haired Frenchman Bertrand
“ElKY” Grospellier. Both Hellmuth and Grospellier will
be responsible for selecting four additional team members each of whom will do
battle alongside them to determine whether the Americas or Europeans is home to
the best tournament poker players.
Additionally players will be made public soon.
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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