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The International Poker Federation hosted two major events in London, England this past week, the IFP World Championship (dubbed “The Table”) and the Nations Cup (a team event where players participated in the Duplicate Poker format).

In the Nations Cup it was the team from Germany who would come out victorious (as if crowning the reigning WSOP Main Event Champion just a few weeks back wasn’t enough for the Germans) in the new format that sees each team dealt the exact same hands to see who plays the hand more skillfully. Germany, whose team included Captain Stephan Kalhammer, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Moritz Kranich, Tobias Reinkemeier, Sandra Naujoks, Konstantin Buecherl, Hans Martin Vogl and Tim Reese, managed to edge the teams from France and Brazil by just 2 points (24 to 22) to claim the first-ever Nations Cup title.

In the IFP World Championship, an invitation-only $500k freeroll tournament, 120 of the top poker players in the world participated in the event, with only the final table making the money (and 80% of the prize-pool going to the top 3 finishers). Here is how the final table played out in the World Championship:

1. Raul Mestre (Spain) — $250,000

2. Victoria Coren (UK) — $100,000

3. Igor Trafane (Brazil) — $50,000

4. Slavko Tomic (Serbia) — $25,000

5. Marsha Waggoner (Australia) — $20,000

6. Sandra Naujoks (Germany) — 17500

7. Takuo Serita (Japan) — 15,000

8. Tim Reese (Germany) — 12,500

9. Kinichi Nakata (Japan) — $10,000

For more information on the events, or on the IFP you can check out their website at http://www.int.pokerfed.org/