Montel Williams to Represent Team USA in Poker Nations Cup

As one of the early on chip leader’s in last year’s 2007 WSOP, Montel Williams was strutting his poker stuff and earning legitimacy as a contender as a poker pro.

His poker playing had not gone unnoticed. PartyPoker.com announced yesterday that Montel Williams was invited (and personally picked by team captain and esteemed Omaha master, Robert Williamson, III) to partake as a member of Team USA in the Poker Nations Cup. Though relatively new to the professional poker scene, this former talk show legend hosts quite a few of his own poker tournaments for charity events he heads for Multiple Sclerosis and the Montel Williams MS Foundation.

The structure of this global tournament has five esteemed poker pros and one PartyPoker online poker qualifier playing on each of the six teams from the United States (headed by Williamson), Britain (headed by Roland De Wolfe), Germany (headed by Michael Keiner) Ireland (headed by Padraig Parkinson) Netherlands (headed by Marcel Luske) and Sweden (headed by Bo Sehlstedt). In light of PartyPoker not accepting US poker players due to the US Gambling Ban, Team USA was left without an online poker qualifier, so Williamson thought Montel Williams would be a good fit. Williams will also be playing alongside Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Jamie Gold, Freddy Deeb and Chris Brown.

The Poker Nations Cup will be played in Cardiff, Wales from April 7th through April 10th. Featuring six heats, the $5,000 buy-in event will have players competing for points (which determine chip stacks for each team) to see who will be top-finishers in the heats and make it on to the final play. This tag team formatted tournament will have team captains making tactical decisions throughout and strategizing how and when they will use their most valuable players. The teams will compete for the team prize of $100,000. In addition to the team prize, each winner of the six heats will be awarded $20,000. Last year’s tournament had Team Sweden walking away with the illustrious title.

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