The most comprehensive Global Poker League online guide – GPL Season 1 kicks off today at 6 pm CET!
What is the Global Poker League and how does it work?
The Global Poker League (GPL) is the first professional poker league. It follows the example of big sports leagues like the NBA or NFL, but in an eSports setup.
Global Poker League Season 1 starts today at 6 pm CET!
The GPL consists of 12 teams from all around the world with 6 players each (a team manager, three draft picks and two wildcards).
There are two conferences Eurasia and Americawith 6 teams each. The first one plays its matches in Europe and Asia, the second one in the USA.
Global Poker League Season 1 consists of 4 different phases
The inaugural season of the GPL consists of 4 different phases: The Regular Season, the Summer Series, the Playoffs, the GPL Finals.
The GPL Regular Season: From the 5th of April – 22nd September 2016: There are online matches three days per week every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. All of them will be streamed live on Twitch.
The GPL Summer Series: In the second phase from the 5th of June – 8th July 2016 there will be 33 Days of daily Heads-Up battles filmed and streamed live from Las Vegas.
The GPL Playoffs: (Dates TBA) – The Global Poker League’s “Final 8” determine the four finalists of the first season for the Grand Finale, which takes place in the SSE Arena Wembley in London.
The GPL Finals will be played in the Cube in the SSE Arena Wembley London
The GPL Finals: 22nd-23rd November 2016 – Venue of the GPL Finals will be the the SSE Arena Wembley in London next to the legendary Wembley Stadium.
The SSE Arena is London’s most iconic concert and events hall located in the heart of Wembley Park and seems to be the perfect venue for the Grand Finale of Season 1.
The Finals will be played in the revolutionary Cube. This is one of the most remarkable and unique features of the GPL and was exclusively built for it. It can be installed everywhere from the pyramids of Giza to the Eiffel Tower to a football stadium.
The Cube is one of the most remarkable features of the Global Poker League.
“The Cube is a portable, 20-foot- one-way soundproof cube that will offer spectators the first-ever immersive poker event in the world”, explains GPL boss Alex Dreyfus.
This is where the first ever Global Poker League Champion will be crowned.
As mentioned above there will be 12 teams with 6 players each led by a team manager.
The teams of the inaugural season of the Global Poker League:
Berlin Bears with team manager Philipp Gruissem
Los Angeles Sunset with team manager Maria Ho
Moscow Wolverines with team manager Anatoly Filatov
New York Rounders with team manager Bryn Kenney
London Royals with team manager Liv Boeree
Paris Aviators with team manager Fabrice Soulier
Rome Emperors with team manager Max Pescatori
Sao Paulo Metropolitans with team manager André Akkari
Hong Kong Stars with team manager Celina Lin
Montreal Nationals with team manager Marc-Andre Ladouceur
San Francisco Rush with team manager Faraz Jaka
Las Vegas Moneymakers with team manager Chris Moneymaker
On the 25th of February the first ever GPL Draft took place in Los Angeles, where the managers had the chance to pick three players from the TOP 1000 of the Global Poker Index (GPI).
Watch the roundup of the Global Poker League Draft Day here:
As well as the great Draft Recap Highlights here:
The Global Poker League Wildcards
After that each manager had to select two wildcards to complete the team. Here they had the opportunity to choose whoever they want, means also themselves.
Here are the selected Global Poker League Wildcards:
London Royals — Liv Boeree and Sam Trickett
Paris Aviators — Fabrice Soulier and Alexandre Luneau
Moscow Wolverines — Analtoly Filatov and Igor Yaroshevsky
Rome Emperors — Max Pescatori and Todd Brunson
Berlin Bears — Bill Perkins and Dan Cates
Hong Kong Stars — Celina Lin and Randy Lew
Las Vegas Moneymaker — Chris Moneymaker and Scott Ball from Twitch
Montreal Nationals — Marc-Andre Ladouceur and Jason Lavallee
New York Rounders — Bryn Kenney and Tyler Kenney
San Francisco Rush — Faraz Jaka and Jonathan Jaffe
Sao Paulo Metropolitans — Felipe Ramos and João Bauer
The Global Poker League Teams and their players
Rome Emperors: $20.399.035
Name
Live Winnings
Max Pescatori (ITA) (Manager)
$4.176.786
Mustapha Kanit (ITA)
$5.497.875
Dario Sammartino (ITA)
$3.251.024
Timothy Adams (CAN)
$2.546.978
Walter Treccarichi (ITA)
$819.052
Todd Brunson (USA)
$4,107,320
Montreal Nationals: $36.383.064
Name
Live Winnings
Marc-Andre Ladouceur (CAN) Manager
$1.704.748
Mike McDonald (CAN)
$12.949.811
Martin Jacobson (SWE)
$15.045.724
Pascal Lefrancois (CAN)
$2.577.792
Xuan Liu (CAN)
$1.649.190
Jason Lavallee
$2,457,799
New York Rounders: $46.183.338
Name
Live Winnings
Bryn Kenney (USA) Manager
$8.743.544
Jason Mercier (USA)
$16.356.296
Thomas Marchese (USA)
$12.404.012
Kevin MacPhee (USA)
$5.424.937
Jason Wheeler (USA)
$2.298.881
Tyler Kenney (USA)
$955,668
San Francisco Rush: $23.245.591
Name
Live Winnings
Faraz Jaka (USA) Manager
$5.066.962
Phil Galfond (USA)
$2.339.619
Anthony Gregg (USA)
$10.476.457
Kitty Kuo (TAI)
$1.091.426
Anton Wigg (SWE)
$1.995.352
Jonathan Jaffe (USA)
$2,175,775
Las Vegas Moneymakers: $36.947.805
Name
Live Winnings
Chris Moneymaker (USA) Manager
$3.588.654
Anthony Zinno (USA)
$5.337.383
Jonathan Duhamel (CAN)
$17.592.802
Jake Cody (ENG)
$4.132.822
Jonathan Little (USA)
$6.257.741
Scott Ball (USA)
$38,430
Sao Paulo Metropolitans: $15.653.119
Name
Live Winnings
Andre Akkari (BRA) Manager
$1.466.727
Darren Elias (USA)
$3.505.319
Byron Kaverman (USA)
$6.757.855
Thiago Nishijima (BRA)
$1.784.213
Joao Pires Simao (BRA)
$508.033
Felipe Ramos (BRA)
$1,014,293
Joao Bauer (BRA)
$616,679
London Royals: $59.309.722
Name
Live Winnings
Liv Boeree (UK) Manager
$2.997.943
Igor Kurganov (RUS)
$10.218.893
Vanessa Selbst (USA)
$11.728.256
Chris Moorman (ENG)
$4.107.768
Justin Bonomo (USA)
$9.690.053
Sam Trickett (UK)
$20,566,809
Moscow Wolverines: $15.345.065
Name
Live Winnings
Anatoly Filatov (RUS) Manager
$1.298.838
Dzmitry Urbanovich (POL)
$4.190.393
Vladimir Troyanovskiy (RUS)
$4.199.228
Andrey Pateychuk (RUS)
$2.873.717
Sergey Lebedev (RUS)
$1.087.222
Igor Yaroshevsky (RUS)
$1,695,667
Los Angeles Sunset: $28.025.439
Name
Live Winnings
Maria Ho (USA) Manager
$1.708.584
Fedor Holz (GER)
$7.549.491
Olivier Busquet (USA)
$6.857.079
Eugene Katchalov (UKR)
$8.669.109
Chance Kornuth (USA)
$3.241.176
Wildcard Pick
TBA
Berlin Bears: $50.795.344
Name
Live Winnings
Phillip Gruissem (GER) Manager
$9.731.202
Brian Rast (USA)
$16.313.290
Sorel Mizzi (CAN)
$11.148.823
Dominik Nitsche (GER)
$5.164.231
Jeffrey Gross (USA)
$2.450.671
Daniel Cates (USA)
$3,480,076
Bill Perkins (USA)
$2,507,051
Paris Aviators: $30.966.200
Name
Live Winnings
Fabrice Soulier (FRA) Manager
$5.829.817
Bertrand Grospellier (FRA)
$10.922.427
Davidi Kitai (BEL)
$6.757.706
George Danzer (GER)
$2.249.980
Mike Leah (CAN)
$5.040.388
Alexandre Luneau (FRA)
$165,882
Hong Kong Stars: $4.225.507
Spieler
Live Winnings
Celina Lin (CHN) Manager
$581.359
Weiyi Zhang (CHN)
$253.446
Raiden Kan (HKG)
$866.303
Dong Guo (CHN)
$554.374
Diwei Bryan Huang (SIN)
$854.703
Randy Lew (USA)
$1,140,327
Here are the GPL teams sorted by live winnings:
London Royals: $59.309.722
Berlin Bears: $50.795.344
New York Rounders: $46.183.338
Las Vegas Moneymakers: $36.947.805
Montreal Nationals: $36.383.064
Paris Aviators: $30.966.200
Los Angeles Sunset: $28.025.439
San Francisco Rush: $23.245.591
Rome Emperors: $20.399.035
Sao Paulo Metropolitans: $15.653.119
Moscow Wolverines: $15.345.065
Hong Kong Stars: $4.225.507
GPL Live Stream today at 6pm CET at VIP-Grinders.com!
The big day is finally here! Today the Global Poker League starts and the first matches take place online.
And the best thing is, you can follow all of them live from home as there will be a live stream from GPL Match Day 1 today at 6pm CET/12 pm EST, which you can watch here on VIP-Grinders.com!
First, there will be two 6-max matches in the Eurasia conference, followed by two games in the Americas conference.
The live stream will be hosted by Laura Cornelius and Alex Dreyfus in the GPL studio in Malta and commentary of the poker action will be done by the two poker pros Griffin Benger and Sam Grafton.
The answer to this question is very simple. Everything that brings new players to the game is good for poker and the GPL definitely will.
Due to the presentation of poker as a sport in the first ever professional poker league together with the eSports setup and the Twitch live stream, there will be a lot of new people watching tonight.
Everybody, who plays poker or works in the industry should spread the news and support Alex Dreyfus, his team and the GPL, because if he succeeds, then we will all benefit from it.
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