U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A!!! The chants of Miracle on Ice at Lake Placid still haven't died down nearly 30 years later. This time Team USA wasn't lacing up their skates nor looking to knock off the Russians...

... this time it was the Romanians and Canadians at a game of poker and instead of throwing hip checks they threw check-raises which allowed Team USA to walk away victorious at the PokerStars World Cup IV. Lead by 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Greg Raymer, Team USA overcame being sixth place and out of the four team finals but they came surging back to win it all and take home $100,000 in the process.

PokerStarsBlog.com was on the scenes again to chronicle Team USA's victory as Shaun Deeb's AQo held up over Romania's Cristan Rajala's J8o to bring home the victory from Barcelona, Spain.

Then, it was that Q-J again for Team USA. Andri Bjorgvin, now playing for Iceland, bet from the button and Deeb moved in. The Iceland captain called with A-9 and was ahead. But as Deeb turned to his own captain, Netter, and said: "This is your hand, Tyler," the writing was on the wall. A queen came on the flop and Iceland were sent packing.

Deeb had eliminated both Iceland and Canada, and it seemed wise to keep him on for the heads-up battle. He had a three-to-one chip lead and all the momentum. He was looking strong.

Romania's Cristian Rajala did achieve one double up against Deeb, overtaking 6-6 with K-10. But after Cristian Tardea came in, he couldn't find any help from the board and eventually got his dwindling stack in the middle behind J-9.

Deeb, as was customary, was going nowhere. He'd found ace-queen, called the all in and there were no miracles for Romania.

All the chips went the way of Team USA, and the new World Cup winners were decided.

PokerStars.com World Cup of Poker - Final results

1st - United States (Tyler Netter, Randy Principe, Greg Raymer, John Kenlan, Shaun Deeb) - $100,000

2nd - Romania (Razvan Bengulescu, Florin Constantin, Cristian Rajala, Cristian Tardea, Cristian Dragomir) - $60,000
3rd - Iceland (Andri Bjorgvin, Fridrik Jorgensson, Halldor Sverrisson, Einar Sveinsson, Magnus Johannesson) - $40,000
4th - Canada (Jody Thompson, Ed Byrne, Otto Byrne, Daniel Negreanu, Michael Watson) - $20,000