ENGLAND - European Team Championships 2009

[AMRN]

Three national championships so far this year.

Event 1 winner - English
Event 2 winner - English
Event 3 winner - English

No sign of any scots, irish, etc. Maybe they"re winning the online nationals....... nope!!

[Mikeyboy9361]

In order to quell this Jingoistic fervour, may be we should enter a British and Irish Lions team! That should be easy to pick!!

[Mikeyboy9361]

But then again looking at Steve"s results table...... may be not!  

[APAT]

From what I recall clearly from last year, the teams who excelled at this event had one thing in common.  Incredible team spirit.  There were lots of strong individuals dotted throughout most of the teams, but when it came down to it the Irish, Scots and Germans supported each other more passionately than the other teams did.  Who knows, it might be a significant drawback to have four individual champions on your team, if they don"t gel.  What a great and interesting tournament this will be...

[Chipaccrual]

From what I recall clearly from last year, the teams who excelled at this event had one thing in common.  Incredible luck of the Irish, or to be more specific, a cardrack called Pat.

FYP



The team spirit thing is a key factor in this event though.  Those teams that shone through, clearly had a togetherness over the weekend.  They also had a skilled and talented team captain, who was able to gel the team members together to get the most out of them, by utilising not only the team captains poker knowledge and skills, but also maximising the skills of their team.



I"ll leave the punchline open........................

[deanp27]

just avoid picking from the highly successful Nottingham team imo

[Jon MW]

From what I recall clearly from last year, the teams who excelled at this event had one thing in common.  Incredible luck of the Irish, or to be more specific, a cardrack called Pat.

FYP



The team spirit thing is a key factor in this event though.  Those teams that shone through, clearly had a togetherness over the weekend.  They also had a skilled and talented team captain, who was able to gel the team members together to get the most out of them, by utilising not only the team captains poker knowledge and skills, but also maximising the skills of their team.
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I think the team spirit is a coincidence

I can"t see any logical, statistical or analytical reason why a non-team game like poker would benefit from it.

I recall a similar theme around England"s Nations Cup victory the other year - the summary of that was that England were the only team acting like a group of individuals during the tournament rather than getting cosy with loads of bonding.

They won that, teams with good team spirit did well in this last time -to me this reinforces the evidence in favour of coincidence.

[Honeybadg]

Three national championships so far this year.

Event 1 winner - English
Event 2 winner - English
Event 3 winner - English

No sign of any scots, irish, etc. Maybe they"re winning the online nationals....... nope!!

Fair play but:

You fail to take into account the number of runners that were English ... in this event there will be 4 from each country ...

L

[AMRN]

Three national championships so far this year.

Event 1 winner - English
Event 2 winner - English
Event 3 winner - English

No sign of any scots, irish, etc. Maybe they"re winning the online nationals....... nope!!

Fair play but:

You fail to take into account the number of runners that were English ... in this event there will be 4 from each country ...

L

Exactly - more English people qualified because they were better in the satellites!!  

[George2Loose]

Congrats on the captaincy Danny- can"t think of a better person for the job (also means your not playing which is an obvious bonus)

[SirPercival]

Are you going for the double Dan.

Nottingham to win the league and England for the Euro champs?  

[kinboshi]

Getting closer to being near to narrowing down the preliminary qualification criteria for the initial short-list for potential maybes for the England team.  I think.

[HaworthBantam]

Getting closer to being near to narrowing down the preliminary qualification criteria for the initial short-list for potential maybes for the England team.  I think.

Lessons from Des, me thinks  

So, end of the month then.....?

[kinboshi]

Getting closer to being near to narrowing down the preliminary qualification criteria for the initial short-list for potential maybes for the England team.  I think.

Lessons from Des, me thinks  

So, end of the month then.....?

There"ll be an announcement over a weekend.  Which one, I don"t know.

[rubertoe]

is Daniel is Des's new Prodigy.....

Possibly - sometime in the future at a date yet to be determined...