www.uspokerbowl.com  runs a Team Poker tournament:

Their team concept is infringing on Team Poker's patent pending. Their TeamPoker concept is a poorly designed version to the way Team Poker should be played. Uspokerbowl was taken from The Team Poker concept, but lacks the fullness offer in the original. The originator calls it the "Ryder Cup" of team poker. Hopefully poker player will come to know and appreciate Team Poker as it has been designed ... please see www.teampoker.com .

As presented in this www.launchpoker.com as follow:

Some things just were not meant to become team sports. For example, who ever heard of tag-team sumo wrestling? Even if this was a team style competition, would anybody really want to watch these carbohydrate-bloated behemoths slapping each other in places that only their proctologist should be able to see without having to buy dinner first? Mammoth people patting each other on the tush after a win aside, not every sport or activity lends itself well to a team concept.

  As most people know, the much anticipated "Professional Poker League" collapsed under its own weight before it ever really got started. Poker doesn't translate well into a team sport for the same reason that we will never see a pair of Sumo wrestlers fighting on the same side unless the opponent is a buffet line; you simply cannot create the sort of bond necessary for team play when the following week you could be beating the hell out of your own teammate.

  Those who put up Golf and Nascar as "team" activities that work out well can slink back to left field where their suggestions came from. Golfers can only put up with each other as teammates for about one week out of each year, and professional race car drivers are just as interested in beating the members of their own team to the finish line as they are the drivers from other organizations.

  Aside from the natural competitive spirit of individual sports like golf and poker, for team members to work well together, they should have a pretty good handle on each others' skills. This is why a hive mentality works so well in sports like football and hockey. In poker, giving one's self completely over to the team means giving future competitors the sort of intelligence on your game that they can use against you when you are facing off against your teammate at the World Series of Poker or the World Poker Tour.

  Despite the inherent problems with team poker, the newly formed U.S. Poker League is going to give it a go, and they have some high profile players who will be joining in. There will be 25 teams of 6 players representing various U.S. cities. Among the players involved will be T.J. Cloutier playing for Dallas, Lee Watkinson who will be with the folks representing Seattle, Clonie Gowen is on Houston's team (proving that even in team poker there is a tight end), and Vegas squad will include the combination of Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Antonio Esfandiari, and Danny Masterson. Exactly whose rear gets slapped when somebody pulls off a successful bluff is still up in the air.

  This league kicks off on October 20th, and will at the very least be interesting to watch. Fox Sports will be airing the video in early 2008.