Outsourced from the breaking news, World Team Poker officially announced that they have chosen Fox Sports Net for their event that will cover a total of 13 episodes, the said inauguration was held at the Golden Nugget. On the other hand, team poker isn’t totally in new concept, gathering the best players all over the world. The team captains had already made the decision for their teams, every team is going to play four league matches annually, to serve as the commencement for the championship event.
Scheduled to air in July on FSN, every team will be headed by poker superstars coming from their respective countries which includes Phil Hellmuth for Team USA, co-captains Johnny Chan and David Chiu (Team China), Men “The Master” Nguyen for Team Vietnam, Eli Elezra for Team Israel, Ben Roberts for Team England, co-captains Jeff Lisandroand Tony G (Australia), Juliano Maesano (Team Brazil) and George Kapalas for Team Greece.
This inaugural will have a buy-in worth $50,000 per team that will set up for a five-table shoot-out comprising of rounds of the limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha and no-limit hold’em. For latest updates and videos from the inaugural event, PokerNews will serve as your provider of info.
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