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The Global Poker League Playoffs Start Tomorrow
- Updated: November 28, 2016
It all started on Feb. 25. The first Global Poker League draft saw eight managers draft their teams to compete in the inaugural season of the GPL. Throughout the season, the GPL has delivered some insightful and competitive play. It all ends, at least season one does, on Dec. 1.
GPL Playoffs
The GPL playoffs kick off Nov. 29 with the final four teams from the Americas division playing for spots in the GPL finals. Each team has picked three players from their roster to represent them in a best-of-seven heads-up match. The players will rotate after each match. The first team to win four matches moves on to the Americas final. Each team can pick up to four players to represent them in the GPL Playoffs.
First off, the Montreal Nationals, who finished the season at No. 1, take on the fourth seed San Francisco Rush. The second match of the day pits LA Sunset versus the Sao Paulo Metropolitans.
Montreal Nationals
The Nationals finished the season with the most points in either division and enter the playoffs as the favorite. Team captain Marc-Andre Ladouceur has put together an incredible roster and the Nationals lineup is strong. During the regular season, Mike McDonald, former WSOP Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson and Xuan Liu took care of business in the six-max portion of the schedule; together they scored more than 90 percent of their team’s six-max points.
However, the playoffs are all about heads up, and the other half of the roster, Jason Lavallee, Pascal Lefrancois and Ladoucuer earned 105 points during the heads-up matches in the regular season. Their lineup for the playoffs is McDonald, Lefrancois, Lavallee and Ladouceur.
San Francisco Rush
Their opponents are the San Francisco Rush, led by manager Faraz Jaka. Jaka’s team finished fourth in the Americas division, making it through to the GPL Playoffs on the final day of the regular season and beating the New York Rounders for the final playoff spot by just three points. The Rush’s lineup for the playoff is Jaka, with Jonathan Jaffe and Anton Wigg.
LA Sunset
The LA Sunset are led by manager Maria Ho and they finished the season in second place. The Sunset earned 77 of their points from six-max play, with Fedor Holz bringing in 40 percent of the team’s six-max points. Olivier Busquet played almost half the Sunset’s heads-up matches and …
