On Sunday night, and replaying on Tuesday night, ESPN showed action from the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event and Caesars Cup from Cannes, France. The latter aired first, with teams from the Americas and Europe facing off. The Caesars Cup was originally run back in 2009 with the Europeans trouncing the Americas squad. Would history repeat itself two years later?

The Caesars Cup was a best-of-three competition played in both doubles and singles formats. In the first doubles match, PocketFivers Jason treysfull21Mercier and Ben BenbaLamb (pictured) squared off against PartyPokerpro Tony G and Jake Cody. Players alternated action by street. In the first match’s final hand, the Euros were all-in pre-flop with 10-8 of hearts against the Q-9 of Mercier and Lamb. After the board ran out 3-J-J-6-J, Team Americas was up 1-0.

In the second doubles match, each player played an entire hand instead of alternating by street. This time, Team Americas captain Phil Hellmuth teamed up with Daniel Negreanu to face Max Lykov and Gus Hansen. In the end, Negreanu moved all-in pre-flop with K-8 of hearts and could not improve against A-9. Just like that, the second running of the Caesars Cup was all knotted up at one match apiece.

In the first singles match, 10-time bracelet winner Johnny Chan faced off against Bertrand ElkYGrospellier. Chan doubled through the PokerStars pro with K-3 of hearts against J-9 and then polished off the European with pocket fours against A-6 of hearts. Team Americas pulled back into the lead, two matches to one, and was just one win away from its first Caesars Cup title.

In the second heads-up match, Hellmuth battled Lykov. “The Poker Brat” doubled up nearly immediately with K-J against pocket fives to take the chip lead, but Lykov responded by doubling up with A-5 against 9-5. Hellmuth doubled up once more after picking off a bluff from Lykov, who then moved all-in with K-9 of clubs before the flop. Hellmuth held Q-10 and flopped top pair to take a decisive lead. No suckout was in store and Team Americas took down the Caesars Cup by a 3-1 margin.

Later in the night, ESPN aired coverage from the 2011 WSOP Europe Main Event, which began with 593 entrants, the largest turnout ever for the European version. When the final hour of action was shown, four players remained: two Europeans and two Americans. Among them was Chris moorman1Moorman (pictured), the top money-earner on PocketFives and the table’s short stack. At one point, Moorman’s war chest of PocketFives Triple Crowns was mentioned.

Moorman didn’t stand down and quickly doubled up after turning the nut flush in a hand against former “2 Months, $2 Million” star Brian Roberts. The latter had flopped a king-high flush, but was trumped on the turn. Moorman shot up to seven million in chips, which was good for second place, and Roberts dropped 80% of his stack.

The play at the WSOP Europe Main Event final table was very deliberate. Additionally, all four survivors were extremely quiet. At one point, ESPN poker commentator Norman Chad gave his take: “The play is manically aggressive and good, and nobody talks.”

Moorman polished off Roberts in fourth place after putting Roberts all-in with Q-4 of hearts. The former G4 reality show cast member had J-8 and flopped top pair, but the Brit rivered a straight to send him away in fourth place.

Then, New Yorker Elio Fox (pictured), holding pocket nines, raised to 160,000 and Germany’s Moritz Catenaccio Kranich 3bet all-in for 1.5 million with 5-4 of hearts. Fox called and the board bricked out for Kranich. As a result, Fox held a 2-1 chip lead heads-up against Moorman.

Fox took the early momentum by out-aggressing Moorman, who dropped a pot worth 3.5 million after his opponent rivered a flush against two pair. Then, Fox 4bet all-in before the flop with A-10 and Moorman called for his last 21 big blinds with A-7. The decorated online poker player couldn’t improve and Fox won the 2011 WSOP Europe Main Event bracelet. Fox banked €1.4 million, while Moorman took home €800,000 to boost his career WSOP earnings to $2.2 million.

You can catch replays of the tournaments on ESPN’s family of networks.