What Is Poker Team U.S.A?

Poker Team USA is a national team poker league. Each Team will be led by a Team Captain selected by Poker Team USA. The Team Captain selects his or her players. Teams will compete under the banners of their respective teams. Tho teams can have as many players as the captain would like only ten can play in a game at a time. The Teams will compete in regular season League Matches. The end of the season culminates in a Championship Event where the Teams will battle it out for the ultimate title: U.S Team Poker Champions!

In the premiere event, 25 teams of 5 players are putting up $10,00. A majority of the prize pool goes to the players who finish in the top ten, and the rest goes to the five teams with the best scores.


Scoring works like this: When a player is eliminated, they will be scored with whatever place they finished the tournament in. For example, if a player is knocked out in 21st, he will get 21 points. Each team uses its best two scores, and the lowest team score wins. For example, if the members of a team finish fifth, seventh and 21st, the highest score is eliminated, and the total team score is 12. If another team finishes with the same score (the top two finishers got second and 10th, for example), the third score is used as a tie-breaker.

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Team poker is not a new concept, but getting it out where the tournament is structured in a way that benefited the players and the poker room was the most important thing to do.


The concept benefits the players because they have another chance to win money at each tournament, and it gives them a new take on a game that they’re used to playing. We also belive that players who normally wouldn’t play in tournaments will join up with friends and play in the Poker Team U.S.A events.


“We call this a player development tournament,” We belive that, “because we’re going to be bringing players who normally wouldn’t be playing in a poker tournament, but feel more comfortable with a team. They’re going to be more comfortable to join the poker tournaments.”


and there’s also a nice bonus built-in the concept.


There are no events scheduled following the premiere event XXXX, but the plan is to expand this concept to cardrooms around the internet, To hold a Poker Team U.S.A “championship tour,” and crown a team championship of 2011-2012. These plans are in the works.