Sooooooo for those of you who don't know what the GPL is I can't really explain it as the structure and way it all worked was so odd and so messy but basically there was a bunch of teams ran by someone semi famous in poker like Bryn Kenney, Moneymaker and Faraz Jacaka, they drafted some known players to make teams of 4 I believe then they played online in 6 max, heads up then in a glass cube in Vegas - I shit you not. This video may explain it better:



Anyways the whole point of it was to sportify poker and give players a platform to market themselves. Can't hate on that but with crappy looking software, players not turning up, players trying to act, terrible commentators and the promise of so much more it just failed and fell so short. Now it is just none existent although there is supposed to be a live event in November to finish it - Which i might call that it won't run as they have cancelled a San Diego and Wembley stop - because no one gave a shit.

The Cube



Why did they fail?

- Promised the world and ended up giving us online games on twitch with the odd webcam of a pro
- Created a cube which was supposed to be for spectators in a stadium: put it in a sweaty Vegas backroom with no audience.
- No excitement
- No interesting content.
- Nobody really know what is going on or where it stands.
- Random commentator

It was literally the saddest thing I have ever seen. When I heard someone got a $5million investment and his plan was to make poker great again I expected so much more - they could have filmed a full season of HSP for 1/10 of thisss!!! Or just done a million things that would be at least watchable. I hate calling someones hard work a fail but this one is clear to see.

As soon as I saw them buy 400k Facebook likes I kinda realised they were not in this for the real reason. More of a get cool quick scheme and have all players pining after you. It worked, they sucked in all the pros and it was set to be awesome but then the players were forced to play online for no money or turn up to a cube. Such a fucking shame.

I mentioned some of the team owners but I didn't give a real list of players, which will fucking stun you:

- Moorman
- Holz
- Mizzi
- Gross
- Moneymaker
- Boeree
- Kurganov
- Jungleman
- Cody
- Kenney
- Elky
- Xuan Liu
- Kanit
- Nanonoko
- Kitai
- Jaffe
- Nitsche
- Rast
- Bonomo
- Little
- Aaron "yeh bitch" Paul

the list goes on and on. Literally the who's who of the poker world yet a lot of you reading this probably didn't know about the GPL just like the 9/10 friends I ask (who have played poker everyday for 10 years). This is the reason I am mad because they managed to get all the players which is incredible but what they did with them was shocking.

Jungleman vs Liu highlights



These are the BEST bits of the match which probably lasted 3 hours at the time! Good job Xuan looked smoking hot and good on her for dressing up and getting with the program because the others did not even bother:





If the intention was to sportify poker at least have team strips which everyone must wear. All in all it is one of the saddest things I have seen happen to poker and it is one massive opportunity lost.