Am 25. Februar findet im SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills der große Spieler Draft der Global Poker League statt. Dann werden die 12 ausgewählten Team Captains ihre Team-Mitglieder basierend der 203 Spieler großen Draft-Liste der GPL für die kommende Saison zusammenstellen.
Nimmt man sich die Zeit und rechnet die Live-Turnier-Gewinne der zur Verfügung stehenden Spieler zusammen, kommt man auf über $562 Millionen. Spieler aus 33 unterschiedlichen Nationen stehen zur Auswahl, wobei die Amerikaner mit fast der Hälfte der Spieler die größte Fraktion bildet. Der Spieler-Draft kann am 25. Februar Live über Twitch.tv mitverfolgt werden. In der Spielerliste nicht mit dabei sind Daniel Negreanu und Phil Hellmuth. Beide werden gemeinsam mit Kara Scott durch die Sendung führen und den Draft begleiten.
Bald wird sich zeigen, ob die Vision von Alexandre Dreyfus Poker zu einer Sportveranstaltung zu machen, wirklich beim Publikum angenommen wird.
Hier die Draft-Liste der GPL:
| Name | Surname | GPI POS 31/12/15 | Nationality | Live Earnings | Online Earnings (PocketFives) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Byron | Kaverman | 1 | USA | $6,757,855 | |
| Anthony | Zinno | 3 | USA | $5,337,383 | – |
| Kevin | MacPhee | 5 | USA | $5,424,937 | $7,118,382 |
| Jason | Mercier | 6 | USA | $16,356,296 | $2,001,750 |
| Fedor | Holz | 9 | GER | $7,549,491 | – |
| Davidi | Kitai | 10 | BEL | $6,757,706 | $448,657 |
| Dominik | Nitsche | 13 | GER | $5,164,231 | $3,398,488 |
| Dzmitry | Urbanovich | 16 | POL | $4,190,393 | – |
| Mike | McDonald | 18 | CAN | $12,949,811 | $2,940,067 |
| Jonathan | Duhamel | 21 | CAN | $17,592,802 | |
| Thomas | Marchese | 24 | USA | $12,404,012 | |
| Benjamin | Pollak | 25 | FRA | $2,613,573 | $327,067 |
| Mustapha | Kanit | 31 | ITA | $5,497,875 | $4,203,118 |
| Sam | Greenwood | 33 | CAN | $2,798,230 | $3,653,541 |
| Igor | Yaroshevskyy | 34 | UKR | $1,695,666 | – |
| Darren | Elias | 35 | USA | $3,505,319 | $3,646,815 |
| Jason | Wheeler | 36 | USA | $2,298,881 | – |
| Brian | Rast | 38 | USA | $16,313,290 | |
| Dario | Sammartino | 39 | ITA | $3,251,024 | |
| Niall | Farrell | 41 | SCO | $1,939,694 | $2,456,781 |
| Vladimir | Troyanovskiy | 42 | RUS | $4,199,228 | – |
| Scott | Clements | 44 | USA | $6,975,297 | $3,717,126 |
| Ankush | Mandavia | 45 | USA | $2,316,280 | $2,773,923 |
| Mike | Leah | 48 | CAN | $5,040,388 | $2,762,255 |
| Jared | Jaffee | 49 | USA | $2,730,423 | |
| Ismael | Bojang | 51 | AUT | $1,870,754 | – |
| Hans | Winzeler | 53 | USA | $2,009,527 | – |
| David | Yan | 57 | NZL | $1,580,140 | $829,705 |
| Shannon | Shorr | 59 | USA | $6,052,301 | – |
| Michael | Wang | 66 | USA | $1,433,921 | $1,001,503 |
| Andrew | Chen | 67 | CAN | $4,652,583 | $1,993,787 |
| Mohsin | Charania | 71 | USA | $4,724,869 | – |
| Jeremy | Ausmus | 75 | USA | $4,788,806 | – |
| Sylvain | Loosli | 76 | FRA | $4,857,533 | – |
| Samuel | Chartier | 77 | CAN | $2,455,530 | |
| Jeff | Madsen | 80 | USA | $5,147,837 | – |
| Brian | Yoon | 81 | USA | $2,788,075 | – |
| Scott | Davies | 86 | USA | $1,536,893 | – |
| Nipun | Java | 87 | IND | $1,654,477 | |
| Justin | Bonomo | 88 | USA | $9,690,053 | |
| Vladimir | Dobrovolskiy | 90 | RUS | $803,830 | – |
| Christian | Harder | 99 | USA | $3,616,452 | $3,239,083 |
| Kiryl | Radzivonau | 103 | BLR | $1,534,334 | $868,103 |
| Jonathan | Little | 106 | USA | $6,257,741 | $1,053,162 |
| Sorel | Mizzi | 110 | CAN | $11,148,823 | |
| Govert | Metaal | 115 | NED | $2,117,699 | – |
| Andrey | Pateychuk | 116 | RUS | $2,873,717 | |
| Ben | Yu | 121 | USA | $1,582,932 | $42,575 |
| Matthew | Glantz | 133 | USA | $6,021,692 | – |
| Igor | Kurganov | 137 | RUS | $10,218,893 | |
| Jussi | Nevanlinna | 140 | FIN | $1,843,978 | – |
| Ricardo | Alvarado | 143 | USA | $434,651 | – |
| Oliver | Price | 145 | ENG | $1,465,232 | – |
| Upeshka | De Silva | 149 | USA | $1,010,803 | |
| Aaron | Mermelstein | 150 | USA | $1,326,382 | |
| Dylan | Wilkerson | 151 | USA | $1,791,157 | |
| Sam | Stein | 153 | USA | $4,601,497 | $1,611,926 |
| Jake | Schwartz | 154 | USA | $985,822 | – |
| Erwann | Pecheux | 155 | FRA | $1,169,511 | – |
| Allen | Kessler | 163 | USA | $3,229,616 | – |
| Aleksandr | Gofman | 169 | RUS | $873,576 | – |
| Justin | Young | 172 | USA | $3,651,893 | – |
| Max | Silver | 175 | USA | $2,358,622 | |
| Alex | Rocha | 186 | USA | $763,079 | – |
| Jose Carlos | Garcia | 189 | POL | $1,183,077 | $1,973,897 |
| Bertrand | Grospellier | 192 | FRA | $10,922,427 | |
| Jeffrey | Gross | 193 | USA | $2,450,671 | $522,393 |
| David | Baker | 197 | USA | $3,767,257 | – |
| Christopher | DeMaci | 198 | USA | $2,026,257 | |
| Justin | Liberto | 204 | USA | $1,833,347 | $147,690 |
| George | Danzer | 205 | GER | $2,249,980 | – |
| Rep | Porter | 206 | USA | $2,900,670 | |
| Dani | Stern | 210 | USA | $2,733,207 | $1,763,804 |
| David | Vamplew | 215 | SCO | $3,599,940 | $1,970,537 |
| Justin | Oliver | 216 | USA | $911,087 | – |
| Raiden | Kan | 220 | HKG | $866,303 | – |
| Javier | Zarco | 223 | ESP | $1,204,811 | |
| Chance | Kornuth | 228 | USA | $3,241,176 | $1,762,732 |
| Noah | Bronstein | 230 | USA | $526,940 | – |
| Timothy | Reilly | 232 | USA | $821,795 | $1,171,445 |
| Christopher | Tryba | 235 | USA | $1,655,716 | |
| Iliodoros | Kamatakis | 239 | GRE | $623,682 | |
| Walter | Treccarichi | 249 | ITA | $819,052 | – |
| Thomas | Butzhammer | 250 | GER | $1,124,432 | – |
| Tobias | Peters | 256 | NED | $851,826 | |
| Chris | Hunichen | 264 | USA | $1,201,785 | $8,136,397 |
| Iaron | Lightbourne | 266 | ENG | $1,208,280 | – |
| Benjamin | Keeline | 268 | USA | $562,337 | – |
| Leo | Wolpert | 272 | USA | $1,631,600 | $992,529 |
| Martin | Jacobson | 273 | SWE | $15,045,724 | – |
| Matthew | Salsberg | 277 | CAN | $1,948,129 | |
| Joseph | Ebanks | 278 | USA | $3,107,576 | – |
| John | Holley | 279 | USA | $1,391,384 | |
| Scott | Baumstein | 281 | USA | $1,477,398 | |
| David | Paredes | 309 | USA | $2,270,126 | |
| Felix | Bleiker | 291 | SWI | $545,508 | |
| Michael | Laake | 293 | USA | $704,645 | – |
| Diogo | Cardoso | 294 | POR | $532,175 | – |
| Joseph | Couden | 295 | USA | $1,090,210 | – |
| Jordan | Cristos | 297 | USA | $613,355 | $1,064,411 |
| David | Tuthill | 300 | ENG | $1,448,234 | – |
| Seth | Berger | 301 | USA | $1,005,125 | |
| Jonathan | Karamalikis | 304 | AUS | $2,567,014 | $5,812,977 |
| Isaac | Baron | 305 | USA | $5,364,815 | – |
| Anton | Wigg | 306 | SWE | $1,995,352 | $6,178,797 |
| Kitty | Kuo | 308 | TAI | $1,091,426 | |
| Noah | Schwartz | 316 | USA | $5,264,152 | $780,358 |
| Eugene | Katchalov | 317 | UKR | $8,669,109 | |
| Yung | Hwang | 319 | USA | $1,731,468 | – |
| Vanessa | Selbst | 321 | USA | $11,728,256 | |
| Ryan | Van Sanford | 323 | USA | $840,175 | – |
| Chad | Eveslage | 325 | USA | $667,597 | $3,304,103 |
| Matthew | Affleck | 333 | USA | $1,782,928 | – |
| Manig | Loeser | 337 | GER | $1,563,516 | |
| Darren | Rabinowitz | 340 | USA | $1,164,160 | $87,935 |
| Kelly | Minkin | 342 | USA | $779,519 | – |
| Natasha | Barbour | 347 | CAN | $688,855 | – |
| Christopher | Klodnicki | 353 | USA | $8,286,614 | |
| Rocco | Palumbo | 354 | ITA | $1,693,398 | $3,373,454 |
| Timothy | Adams | 355 | CAN | $2,546,978 | $1,403,178 |
| Iacopo | Brandi | 356 | ITA | $337,148 | – |
| Xuan | Liu | 359 | CAN | $1,649,190 | |
| Mike | Gorodinsky | 361 | USA | $2,616,750 | – |
| Konstantin | Puchkov | 362 | RUS | $2,364,898 | – |
| Jake | Cody | 363 | ENG | $4,132,822 | $697,494 |
| Dong | Guo | 372 | CHN | $554,374 | – |
| Daniel | Weinman | 373 | USA | $1,211,132 | – |
| Thiago | Nishijima | 374 | BRA | $1,784,213 | |
| Bryan | Paris | 380 | USA | $705,804 | |
| Nick | Pupillo | 381 | USA | $635,441 | |
| Justin | Schwartz | 384 | USA | $1,123,924 | $3,042 |
| Jason | Les | 403 | USA | $1,029,967 | – |
| Antonio | Buonanno | 405 | ITA | $2,345,771 | – |
| Adam | Owen | 408 | UK | $305,147 | |
| Andrea | Dato | 409 | ITA | $1,719,798 | |
| Samuel | Panzica | 411 | USA | $731,845 | |
| Emil | Patel | 427 | USA | $670,937 | – |
| Pieter | de Korver | 432 | NED | $4,075,231 | |
| Antonio | Esfandiari | 434 | USA | $26,495,567 | – |
| Alexander | Ivarsson | 438 | SWE | $391,513 | |
| Ben | Winsor | 450 | ENG | $622,568 | |
| Jesse | Sylvia | 451 | USA | $5,987,767 | |
| Nikolay | Fal | 468 | RUS | $224,411 | $635,168 |
| Li-Ta | Hsu | 471 | TPE | $313,665 | – |
| Esther | Taylor-Brady | 481 | USA | $556,610 | |
| Diwei Bryan | Huang | 486 | SIN | $854,703 | $335,550 |
| Alexandru | Masek | 492 | USA | $1,306,752 | – |
| Joao | Pires Simao | 493 | BRA | $508,033 | – |
| James | Rann | 494 | ENG | $550,886 | $221,883 |
| Ray | Henson | 517 | USA | $2,019,553 | |
| Anthony | Gregg | 522 | USA | $10,476,457 | – |
| Jared | Griener | 533 | USA | $383,117 | – |
| Maxx | Coleman | 534 | USA | $1,201,594 | |
| Daniel | Strelitz | 538 | USA | $1,038,680 | $1,412,310 |
| Jonas | Lauck | 540 | GER | $1,137,266 | $733,646 |
| Valentin | Vornicu | 558 | ROM | $482,454 | $178,360 |
| Shawn | Buchanan | 566 | CAN | $5,902,874 | |
| Dara | O’Kearney | 571 | IRL | $747,503 | $1,884,206 |
| Nicolau | Villa-Lobos | 573 | BRA | $1,160,434 | |
| Jason | Mo | 589 | USA | $1,806,754 | |
| Phil | Galfond | 594 | USA | $2,339,619 | |
| Oleksandr | Gnatenko | 600 | URK | $574,052 | $868,763 |
| Felipe „Mojave“ | Ramos | 606 | BRA | $969,051 | $701,286 |
| Sergey | Lebedev | 612 | RUS | $1,087,222 | – |
| Kou | Vang | 616 | USA | $892,601 | $82,883 |
| Terry | Fan | 624 | TAI | $715,496 | |
| Jerry | Wong | 641 | USA | $1,299,996 | – |
| Olov | Jansson | 645 | SWE | $153,367 | – |
| Keith | Lehr | 649 | USA | $2,736,773 | |
| Cate | Hall | 651 | USA | $420,675 | |
| Kenneth | Aldridge | 656 | USA | $1,280,877 | $30,538 |
| Fabrizio | Gonzalez Cataldi | 660 | ARG | $1,175,430 | |
| Dmitry | Vitkind | 672 | RUS | $1,290,923 | $628,228 |
| Jason | Helder | 703 | USA | $1,717,441 | |
| James | Collopy | 713 | USA | $1,251,342 | |
| David | Nowling | 720 | USA | $184,692 | |
| Matthew | Schultz | 733 | USA | $406,720 | $584 |
| Gianluca | Escobar | 747 | ITA | $243,329 | $923,354 |
| Aaron | Overton | 748 | USA | $678,478 | – |
| William | Foxen | 757 | USA | $183,920 | $552,446 |
| Brian | Benhamou | 762 | FRA | $616,564 | – |
| Jonathan | Roy | 765 | CAN | $2,087,523 | |
| Peter | Eichhardt | 769 | SWE | $820,570 | – |
| Carlos | Chadha | 785 | USA | $471,832 | |
| Chris | Moorman | 793 | ENG | $4,107,768 | $12,963,272 |
| Guillaume | Diaz | 795 | FRA | $372,351 | – |
| Weiyi Zhang 823 CHN | $253,446 | ||||
| Andrey | Kotelnikov | 834 | RUS | $200,126 | – |
| Phong ‚Turbo‘ | Nguyen | 836 | USA | $980,570 | – |
| Romain | Lewis | 847 | FRA | $216,455 | – |
| William | Reynolds | 871 | USA | $1,808,446 | $1,698,059 |
| Muhamet | Perati | 875 | ALB | $416,232 | |
| Clyde | Tjauw For | 885 | NED | $517,335 | – |
| Fatima | Moreira de Melo | 891 | NED | $440,228 | |
| Gregory | Marcus | 906 | USA | $329,253 | – |
| Mark | Radoja | 908 | CAN | $1,906,952 | |
| Dylan | Hortin | 915 | USA | $651,514 | – |
| Phillip | Mcallister | 944 | ENG | $540,467 | $2,052,592 |
| Joe | Tehan | 955 | USA | $4,287,302 | – |
| Guy | Taylor | 961 | ENG | $136,769 | $337,208 |
| Luis | Ferreira | 972 | BRA | $456,789 | |
| Petr | Jelinek | 987 | CZE | $343,023 |
