Online 6-Max Structure

Game Clock: 13 minutes per player with no time bank per Sit-N-Go.

Hot Seat: If a player reaches 0 seconds on their game clock they are put into ‘Hot Seat’ mode – they will have 4 seconds to make each of their actions during any street/ betting round. If they do not act in their allotted 4 second timeframe – they automatically fold/ pass on their action.

Time re-distribution: When a player busts from 6-Max play – the remaining time left in their game clock is distributed evenly to all remaining players’ game clocks.

Game Type: NLHE

Starting Stack: 25,000 Chips

Small Blind Big Blind Ante Time
100 200 25 8 min.
150 300 30 8 min.
200 400 50 8 min.
300 600 75 8 min.
400 800 100 8 min.
600 1,200 150 8 min.
800 1,600 200 8 min.
1,000 2,000 250 8 min.
1,200 2,400 300 8 min.
1,500 3,000 400 8 min.
2,000 4,000 500 Until match end.

Online / Summer Series Heads-Up Structure

Game Clock: 18 minutes per player with no time bank.

Hot Seat: If a player reaches 0 seconds on their game clock they are put into ‘Hot Seat’ mode – they will have 4 seconds to make each of their actions during any street/ betting round. If they do not act in their allotted 4 second timeframe – they automatically fold/ pass on their action.

Game Type: NLHE

Starting Stack: 50,000 Chips

Small Blind Big Blind Ante Time
200 400 40 4 min.
300 600 60 4 min.
400 800 80 4 min.
500 1,000 100 4 min.
600 1,200 120 4 min.
800 1,600 160 4 min.
1,000 2,000 200 4 min.
1,200 2,400 240 4 min.
1,400 2,800 280 4 min.
1,600 3,200 320 4 min.
2,000 4,000 400 Until match end.

Regular Season Points Structure

Online 6-Max Matches

Per match (2x matches per week – tuesday)

  • 1st – 7 pts.
  • 2nd – 5 pts.
  • 3rd – 3 pts.
  • 4th – 2 pts.
  • 5th – 1 pts.
  • 6th – 0 pts.

Online & Live (Studio) Heads Up Matches

3 games per match (all 3 games played) –

  • 3 pts. per game won
  • 0 pts. per game lost

9 pts. total possible for a 3 – 0 win

Live Heads Up Matches – Would follow the same pts. & game structure as normal weekly HU matches.

Home vs. Away Teams (in HU and in 6-Max) – Rules

Online 6-Max: One team from each conference, each week, will be designated as the “Home” team for that week’s 6-Max matches. This is to create a more fun dynamic and allow teams to take a more strategic approach towards submitting players for their week.

The ‘Home Field’ Advantage: For each conference – first, the 5 ‘Away’ teams submit their player choices blind to the GPL (i.e. they will not know which players other managers chose to represent their teams), meanwhile the ‘Home’ team will be allowed to review this lineup, before submitting their own final team representative to compete in that week’s 6-Max matches.

Full list of home teams by week

Each GPL team will spend 2 weeks total during the regular GPL season as the “Home” team for 6-max play – ‘Home’ teams by conference are listed below (order chosen randomly):

Reg. S. Week GPL Americas – Home Team GPL Eurasia – Home Team
Week 1 LA Sunset MSK Wolverines
Week 2 LV Moneymakers BRN Bears
Week 3 SP Metropolitans LDN Royals
Week 4 NYC Rounders RME Emperors
Week 5 MTL Nationals HK Stars
Week 6 SF Rush PRS Aviators
Week 7 LA Sunset MSK Wolverines
Week 8 LV Moneymakers BRN Bears
Summer Series / WSOP
Week 9 SP Metropolitans LDN Royals
Week 10 NYC Rounders RME Emperors
Week 11 Montreal Nationals HK Stars
Week 12 SF Rush PRS Aviators

 

Heads-Up (both online and during the Summer Series):

On each Head-Up competition day (Wednesdays and Thursdays) all heads-up competitions will feature a “Home” team and an “Away” team. The teams which are home vs. away for any given HU match are marked on the GPL Season 1 schedule. For example – if the match is:

– Hong Kong @ Moscow –

The Away Team – is Hong Kong Stars

The Home Team – is Moscow Wolverines

The ‘Home Field’ Advantage: For each Heads-Up match – First the Away team submits their team representative, after which the Home team is allowed to review their opponent’s submission and choose the player they’d like to play against them.

Playoffs and Grand Final

The Playoffs and the Grand Final of the inaugural Global Poker League season will be a little bit different than announced earlier. Our new Conference Playoffs and Finals will be held in our Las Vegas Studio and will be played live in The Cube in a three-day season Grand Finale late November 2016. Click here for the Playoffs and Finals format.