Global Poker League

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The Global Poker League , GPL for short , is a poker league founded in 2016 by the Global Poker Index . It has been played twice so far.

First season mode

In the league there were twelve teams (six from America and six from Eurasia), each consisting of six players. The game was initially played in two groups, divided into America and Eurasia. The team manager was not automatically part of the team himself, but handed out two wildcards, one of which he could assign to himself. All games were broadcast live on the GPL website and on Twitch and commented there by Griffin Benger and Sam Grafton . The variant No Limit Hold'em was always played . There were three game formats:

  • Tuesdays online with one player from each of the six group teams. Points were distributed as follows:
    • 1-7 points
    • 2. - 5 points
    • 3rd - 3 points
    • 4. - 2 points
    • 5. - 1 point
    • 6th - 0 points
  • Wednesdays and Thursdays online with one player each from two group teams, i.e. H. a heads up . Three duels were played and points were distributed as follows:
    • 3 points for a win (a total of 9 points possible)
    • 0 points for a loss
  • Three to six games in the regular season as well as the final round were played live in front of an audience.

Events

2016

The first season took place from April 5 to December 1, 2016. The winning team Montreal Nationals consisted of the players Marc-André Ladouceur , Mike McDonald , Martin Jacobson , Xuan Liu , Pascal Lefrançois and Jason Lavallee .

2017

In December 2016 it was announced that a second 2017 season would be held in China . It was played from September 14th to December 2nd, 2017. The winners were the Chengdu pandas .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Global Poker League Schedule on the Global Poker League website, accessed on May 12, 2016 (English)
  2. ↑ The 2016 WSOP November Nine: Seat 1, Griffin Benger on pokernews.com, accessed October 28, 2016
  3. ↑ About GPL on the Global Poker League website, accessed May 12, 2016
  4. ↑ Global Poker League expands to China in 2017 on clubpoker.net from December 18, 2016, accessed on January 23, 2017 (English)
  5. ↑ Global Poker League China on gpl.com, accessed December 8, 2017 (English)