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Nations Cup
Twelve countries
played for two days of the Nations’ Cup at County Hall in London, 17th and
18th November, 2011.
Separated into two groups – Group A (Spain,
Germany, United States, Ireland, Denmark and Team Zynga) and Group B (Japan,
France, Australia, Holland, the United Kingdom and Brazil).
After the
first round of play the promoted teams were Germany, Spain and Team Zynga from
Group A and France, Holland and Brazil from Group B.
A 72-hand final
round was played with the final results as follows;
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Team
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Points |
| 1 |
Germany |
24 |
| 2 |
Brazil |
22* |
| 3 |
France |
22 |
| 4 |
Zynga |
20 |
| 5 |
Holland |
19* |
| 6 |
Spain |
19 |
| * decided on a tie breaker |
Editor's Note: This was supposed to be an elimination event with
six teams progressing from day one into day two. Unfortunately organisers lost
data and decided the whole thing should start again on day two.
IFP
World Championship
“The Table,” as this IFP World
Championship tournament is called, featured 135 invited players to battle it
out over a two day tournament for a $500,000 prize pool, with $250,000 for
first place.
After day one there were nine finalists.
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Name
(Country) |
Chips |
| Seat 1 |
Igor Trafane
(Brazil) |
369K |
| Seat 2 |
Sandra Naujoks
(Germany) |
167K |
| Seat 3 |
Takuo Serita
(Japan) |
41K |
| Seat 4 |
Kinichi Nakata
(Japan) |
29K |
| Seat 5 |
Victoria Coren
(UK) |
204K |
| Seat 6 |
Slavko Tomic
(Serbia) |
44K |
| Seat 7 |
Marsha Waggoner
(Australia) |
32K |
| Seat 8 |
Tim Reese
(Germany) |
44K |
| Seat 9 |
Raul Mestre
(Spain) |
426K |
When
the the final got down to two players Mestre had the edge, but Coren gradually
worked her way into the chip lead. Over the span of fifty minutes, the duo
parried each other before a clash that would determine the championship. After
a raise by Coren, Mestre put his remaining chips in the center and Coren
called. With his pocket fives, Mestre held the lead over Coren’s A-J and
the board would do nothing to change the situation. Once the chips were
counted, Coren was left with slightly less than 180K in chips and Mestre had
shot up to 1.17 million.
A little while later Coren would eventually
fall when her A-3 was dominated by Mestre’s A-5 and Mestre hit a 5 on the
flop.
After day two the results are;
| Place |
Name
(Country) |
Prize |
| 1st |
Raul Mestre
(Spain) |
$250,000 |
| 2nd |
Victoria Coren
(UK) |
$100,000 |
| 3rd |
Igor Trafane
(Brazil) |
$50,000 |
| 4th |
Slavko Tomic
(Serbia) |
$25,000 |
| 5th |
Marsha Waggoner
(Australia) |
$20,000 |
| 6th |
Sandra Naujoks
(Germany) |
$17,500 |
| 7th |
Takuo Serita
(Japan) |
$15,000 |
| 8th |
Tim Reese
(Germany) |
$12,500 |
| 9th |
Kinichi Nakata
(Japan) |
$10,000 |
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Gold Medal Winner and World Champion Raul
Mestre
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Silver Medal Winner Victoria
Coren
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The rest of the Mind Sports Festival results seemed to have
vanished without a trace so we are sorry not to bring them to
you.
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