The captains of Team Europe and Team Americas have named their final teams for the second edition of the Caesars Cup, due to be held on the penultimate day of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes, France. Neither captain has made any drastic changes from the last time this event took place in 2009, though the teams contain one player less than in the previous encounter.
Team Europe is headed by Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, a Triple Crown winner and one of the best tournament poker players in the world. ElkY has more than $8,400,000 in live tournament winnings and is certainly a worthy captain. As this year's Caesars Cup is going to be played in a heads up format it is no surprise that ElkY has chosen a team of heads up specialists to represent Europe, the easy winners from the previous battle.
Jake Cody, another Triple Crown winner, has been chosen and will be a formidable opponent at the felt. Cody completed his Triple Crown of titles by winning the $25,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship at the recent World Series of Poker and is no stranger to one-on-one poker battles. Another heads-up champion joining Team Europe is Gus Hansen, the reigning WSOPE High Roller Heads Up Champion. Hansen has been very quiet on the tournament circuit this past year and will almost certainly have been hurt by the collapse of Full Tilt Poker, as he had been on a massive heater on the site since his bracelet win. ElkY's other picks come in the shape of Dario Minieri, a regular at the highest heads-up SNGs online, and Max Lykov, a Russian player who has put up some tremendous results over the past 18 months.
Eleven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth is the team Americas captain and he has gone for experience in his selections, with the average age being 51-years old. Going into battle alongside Hellmuth will be Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Johnny Chan and Huck Seed. Team America is a very strong team in its own right but I fear they will be no match for the young-guns of Team Europe and Hellmuth dreams of taking the Caesars Cup back home with him to the USA are just that, dream.
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