Teams from Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Finland, Norway, Chile, USA and Canada took part in the three-day event with the unlikely combination of Croatia and Chinese Taipei battling it out for the honour of being crowned World Cup winners.


As befitted such a crowd friendly, adrenaline filled event, there was a thrilling finale to proceedings. Croatia’s Denis Keleman pushed his remaining 79,000 into the middle and was called by Taipei’s Wen-Hao Pan with As2s. The flop gave Croatia bottom two pair but Taipei a flush draw. The flush hit on the turn and there was to be no miracle full house on the river for the Croats leaving Taipei to celebrate s surprise win.


"I'm so proud of my team mates," said the team captain, Raymond Wu, who pointed out that some of his team-mates had only been playing poker for a matter of weeks. "I think they think it's just a dream."