Global Poker League Announces Move to Las Vegas for Playoffs and Finals

Coming off a fast-paced start to their inaugural season, the Global Poker League has confirmed with PokerNews a move to Las Vegas for both the GPL Playoffs and the GPL Final. The playoffs were originally slated to take place in San Diego as part of TwitchCon, a large streaming conference led by Twitch, while the finals were to have to take place in London at Wembley Stadium.

Additionally, the second half of the regular season has been bumped back a few weeks and is now scheduled to start on Sept. 20, according to GPL CEO Alex Dreyfus and the newly revised GlobalPokerLeague.com schedule.

The changes to the GPL schedule were made after some reflection on how things have gone so far during the league’s first season. Dreyfus stated that the league realized it doesn’t make sense to run events against other popular poker tournament series on the calendar.

“In this case, the return of our schedule was set to bump up against EPT Barcelona, WCOOP, and Burning Man. When we went up against SCOOP during the spring we were getting smashed, so we have to be careful,” Dreyfus told PokerNews.

While Dreyfus bills the first half of the GPL season a success, he also feels that there are improvements to be made and that those improvements can and should be implemented during the first season, rather than wait until next year.

“We’ve pulled it off so far. We started with an idea and we’ve now delivered a draft of 12 teams consisting …

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