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Global Poker League consists of 12 franchise teams from all around the world. Competing across a regular season live, online and right in front of fans! Global Poker uses its own custom-made poker software, which incorporates its patented sweepstakes technology. The site does not have an iOS or Android app, but it really doesn't need one, since its entire operation is browser-based. Poker games at Global Poker. Global Poker offers four different varieties of games to its players.
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| Sport | Poker |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 |
| Owner(s) | Alexandre Dreyfus |
| Motto | The Poker Ranking Authority |
| Most recent champion(s) | Adrian Mateos |
| Official website | GlobalPokerIndex.com |
The Global Poker Index (GPI) is a leaderboard index that ranks over 450,000 live tournament poker players in the world. The GPI poker rankings are updated on a weekly basis. Players' performances are assessed by their finishing positions in poker tournaments occurring over six periods of six months (3 years).[1]
The Global Poker Index uses data from the biggest poker database The Hendon Mob, known for collecting results of tournaments around the world and for being the reference in tournament results. They currently host results for over 325,000 poker tournaments.
The index is used in famous newspapers along with sports results to communicate poker rankings, both on the online and print version.[2]
History[edit]
The Global Poker Index was originally created by Federated Sports + Gaming, along with the Epic Poker League(EPL), with Former World Series Of Poker (WSOP) commissioner Jeffrey Pollack acting as the executive chairman, professional poker player Annie Duke as commissioner, and Matt Savage as the League's tournament director. The GPI was employed to rank players for the EPL and decide which players could take part in the League. On 29 February 2012, when Federated Sports + Gaming announced that they had filed for Bankruptcy, all of the organizations and all the brands were acquired by Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc., at a bankruptcy auction in June 2012.[3] Following this acquisition, Zokay Entertainment and the company's CEO, Alexandre Dreyfus acquired the GPI brand, along with its patent-pending formula, in order to create a single, unified ranking platform covering the live tournament poker world in its entirety.[4]
The GPI ranking system[edit]
The GPI tracks players' results for their prior 3 years of play, in qualifying tournaments with 32 or more entrants (specialty events and freerolls are not counted), using a patent-pending formula that takes into account result ages, field difficulties, and field sizes to generate live tournament player rankings.[5]
For each qualifying tournament a player finishes in-the-money they receive a GPI score. Those scores fall into one of six time periods, each of which covers a half-year based on the starting date of the tournament. These are called GPI Aging Periods. The sum of the player's largest five (5) scores for each of the two Aging Periods in the most recent year and their four (4) largest scores for the four Aging Periods prior to that is their total GPI score. GPI scores themselves are calculated by multiplying a Buy-in Factor, Finishing Factor, and Aging Factor.
The Buy-in Factor is the GPI's measure of relative difficulty, presuming larger buy-ins draw a more skilled field. Its median is calculated by dividing the USD equivalent of a $1,000 buy-in (fee included) by 1,000. This results in a Buy-in Factor of 1.0 for a $1,000 tournament, with Buy-in Factors being larger or smaller than 1.0 depending on whether the buy-in is larger or smaller than $1,000. This calculation uses a logarithmic function. It does so because the incremental increase in the skill set of the field theoretically diminishes as the buy-in amount increases. For example, in the GPI formula the percentage increase of GPI's Buy-In Factor between a $1500 event and an $2000 event is much greater than its percentage increase between $19,500 and a $20,000 buy-in events. Furthermore, all tournaments with a buy-in larger than $20,000 are treated as though the buy-in was only $20,000 and all tournaments with a buy-in smaller than $400 are treated as though the buy-in was $400.
The GPI also includes a Finishing Factor, which measures how players perform relative to the rest of the field they compete within in any given poker tournament. This Finishing Factor is calculated initially by dividing the field size by the player's finishing position and is also done using a logarithmic function. Furthermore, for any tournaments with a field size larger than 2,700 players will be treated as though their field was only 2,700. The GPI also employs an Aging Factor to player results. This is a multiplier that gives more points to tournaments based on how recently they were played in order to reward players both for recent success and consistency over time. Each Aging Period consists of 6 month periods of time, with the most recent being the previous 6 months from the present, and going backwards from there through to a point 3 years in the past. Each Aging Period has a different multiplier that is applied to score calculations, with multipliers decreasing as each Aging Period becomes less recent.
National and regional rankings[edit]
The Global Poker Index National Rankings ranks players by Country, with 20 different national rankings are currently available, by North American, Latin American, European, and Asian regions as well. The GPI is used as a central reference point when ranking live tournament poker players including France,[6] Italy,[7] Spain, Brazil, Latin America [8] and the USA.
Poker team rankings[edit]
The GPI create rankings of players comprising professional poker teams to show which teams' players have the best overall results. Ranked teams include PokerStars, Winamax and Party Poker.
Former Number Ones[edit]
GPI Player Of the Year[edit]
The GPI Player Of the Year (POY) award is given to the player topping GPI's Player of the Year Leaderboard at the end of each calendar year. Standings are updated weekly with the top 1,000 contenders ranked according to results, with the Leaderboard utilizing an augmented version of GPI's existing ranking formula which disregards aging factors and includes 11 total results from qualifying tournament results in each given year (top 6 results from the first 6 months of the year and top 5 results from these 6 months of each year). Buy in restrictions, minimum player field restrictions are kept as-is, as[9]
- POY 2012 : Dan Smith
- POY 2013 : Ole Schemion
- POY 2014 : Daniel Colman
- POY 2015 : Byron Kaverman
- POY 2016 : David Peters
- POY 2017 : Adrian Mateos
- POY 2018 : Alex Foxen
- POY 2019 : Alex Foxen
Global poker masters[edit]
The Global Poker Index aggregates the Top 300 performing players in the world and groups them by nationality to create GPI Country Rankings to show how many top players hail from specific nations. Currently the US is the world's top performing country in terms of live tournament player results, with over 50% of all Top 300 GPI ranked players being American.Using the country rankings, the Global Poker Masters will be a world cup of poker, gathering the best players from 9 countries around the world, in order to decide which country is the best.[10]
Awards[edit]
The Global Poker Index is the host of the European Poker Awards. The GPI EPA takes place every year in January and rewards the best European Poker Players and newcomers, as well as the people involved in the industry.[11]
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Starting in 2015, the American Poker Awards took placee in Los Angeles, USA, and rewarded the best live poker players in America, as well as the biggest contributors in the industry.
Fantasy poker manager[edit]
The Global Poker Index released the first ever Fantasy Poker game allowing poker fans to draft for free their favorite players for the biggest poker tournaments in the world. The game quickly became the official game of the World Poker Tour[12] and the World Series Of Poker[13]The game consists in drafting 10 poker players with a defined virtual budget, following the concept of fantasy sports in general.
GPI Magazine[edit]
GPI launched its first print publication during the 2014 World Series Of Poker where the magazine was distributed for free in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, as well as in other places in Las Vegas. The 56 page first edition saw the poker pro Vanessa Selbst making the cover, and featured numerous people from the industry.[14]
References[edit]
- ^The Global Poker Index: Ranking the top 300 poker players on USA Today
- ^poker rankings on USA Today
- ^Pinnacle Entertainment acquires bankrupt operators of Epic Poker League and Heartland Poker Tour on Las Vegas Review Journal
- ^Global Poker Index Sold to Alex Dreyfus' Zokay Entertainment on pokerfuse.com
- ^Vanessa Selbst is currently 2nd in the Global Poker Index according to the Las Vegas Review Journal
- ^French RankingsArchived 2012-12-20 at the Wayback Machine on MadeInPoker and on the French Poker FederationArchived 2012-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Italian Rankings on CardPlayer.it
- ^Latin American Rankings on CodigoPoker
- ^the race for the Global Poker Index leadership week after week on Pokernews
- ^Global Poker Index Announces the Global Poker Masters: 'It's Going to Be Poker's World Cup!' on Pokernews
- ^The GPI European Poker Awards: A Guaranteed Success on Poker 52 Europa
- ^Fantasy Poker Manager Named Official Fantasy Game of the World Poker Tour on workdpokertour.com
- ^The top 25 things to watch at the 2014 World Series of Poker in the Las Vegas Sun
- ^The GPI expand into print with their new magazine on Calvin Ayre's website.
External links[edit]
| Countries | Canada |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Cricket Canada, Bombay Sports Limited[1] |
| Format | 20-over cricket |
| First edition | 2018 |
| Latest edition | 2019 |
| Tournament format | Round-robin and playoffs |
| Number of teams | 6 |
| Current champion | Winnipeg Hawks (1st title) |
| Most successful | Vancouver Knights Winnipeg Hawks (1 title each) |
| Website | www.gt20.ca |
The Global T20 Canada is a 20-over cricket tournament played in Canada.[2] The first edition of the tournament took place during June and July 2018 with six teams competing.[2] Each team featured four local Canadian cricketers in each squad, along with international players.[3] The inaugural tournament in 2018 took place at the Maple Leaf Cricket Club in King City, Ontario, while the 2019 tournament took place at the CAA Centre in Brampton, Ontario. Bombay Sports Limited are the owners of the league, and also the organizers of the Euro T20 Slam that was set to begin on August 30, 2019.[1]
The International Cricket Council (ICC) sanctioned the tournament in February 2018, and it is the first fully sanctioned T20 league in North America outside of the Caribbean.[4] Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was pleased with the ICC's decision to approve the league.[5]
In May 2018, Cricket Canada announced that the inaugural edition of the tournament would start on 28 June, with the final being held on 15 July 2018.[6] Vancouver Knights won the tournament, beating Cricket West Indies B Team by seven wickets in the final.[7]
The 2019 league began on 25 July, with the final match taking place on 11 August.[8] The second-round game between Montreal Tigers and Toronto Nationals on August 7, 2019, was delayed for two hours in a protest over unpaid wages; some pay issues date back to the 2018 tournament. The protest occurred even though Toronto Nationals captain Yuvraj Singh's fundraiser for his YouWeCan Foundation, had been hosted two days earlier by League organizers.[1] The third season of the tournament, scheduled to be held in 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9]
Teams[edit]
Current[edit]
| Team | Debut | Captain | Coach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brampton Wolves | 2019 | Daren Sammy | Phil Simmons |
| Edmonton Royals | 2018 | Mohammad Hafeez | Stephen Fleming |
| Montreal Tigers | 2018 | George Bailey | Tom Moody |
| Toronto Nationals | 2018 | Yuvraj Singh | Geoff Lawson |
| Vancouver Knights | 2018 | Shoaib Malik | Donovan Miller |
| Winnipeg Hawks | 2018 | Rayad Emrit | Lalchand Rajput |
National and regional rankings[edit]
The Global Poker Index National Rankings ranks players by Country, with 20 different national rankings are currently available, by North American, Latin American, European, and Asian regions as well. The GPI is used as a central reference point when ranking live tournament poker players including France,[6] Italy,[7] Spain, Brazil, Latin America [8] and the USA.
Poker team rankings[edit]
The GPI create rankings of players comprising professional poker teams to show which teams' players have the best overall results. Ranked teams include PokerStars, Winamax and Party Poker.
Former Number Ones[edit]
GPI Player Of the Year[edit]
The GPI Player Of the Year (POY) award is given to the player topping GPI's Player of the Year Leaderboard at the end of each calendar year. Standings are updated weekly with the top 1,000 contenders ranked according to results, with the Leaderboard utilizing an augmented version of GPI's existing ranking formula which disregards aging factors and includes 11 total results from qualifying tournament results in each given year (top 6 results from the first 6 months of the year and top 5 results from these 6 months of each year). Buy in restrictions, minimum player field restrictions are kept as-is, as[9]
- POY 2012 : Dan Smith
- POY 2013 : Ole Schemion
- POY 2014 : Daniel Colman
- POY 2015 : Byron Kaverman
- POY 2016 : David Peters
- POY 2017 : Adrian Mateos
- POY 2018 : Alex Foxen
- POY 2019 : Alex Foxen
Global poker masters[edit]
The Global Poker Index aggregates the Top 300 performing players in the world and groups them by nationality to create GPI Country Rankings to show how many top players hail from specific nations. Currently the US is the world's top performing country in terms of live tournament player results, with over 50% of all Top 300 GPI ranked players being American.Using the country rankings, the Global Poker Masters will be a world cup of poker, gathering the best players from 9 countries around the world, in order to decide which country is the best.[10]
Awards[edit]
The Global Poker Index is the host of the European Poker Awards. The GPI EPA takes place every year in January and rewards the best European Poker Players and newcomers, as well as the people involved in the industry.[11]
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Starting in 2015, the American Poker Awards took placee in Los Angeles, USA, and rewarded the best live poker players in America, as well as the biggest contributors in the industry.
Fantasy poker manager[edit]
The Global Poker Index released the first ever Fantasy Poker game allowing poker fans to draft for free their favorite players for the biggest poker tournaments in the world. The game quickly became the official game of the World Poker Tour[12] and the World Series Of Poker[13]The game consists in drafting 10 poker players with a defined virtual budget, following the concept of fantasy sports in general.
GPI Magazine[edit]
GPI launched its first print publication during the 2014 World Series Of Poker where the magazine was distributed for free in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, as well as in other places in Las Vegas. The 56 page first edition saw the poker pro Vanessa Selbst making the cover, and featured numerous people from the industry.[14]
References[edit]
- ^The Global Poker Index: Ranking the top 300 poker players on USA Today
- ^poker rankings on USA Today
- ^Pinnacle Entertainment acquires bankrupt operators of Epic Poker League and Heartland Poker Tour on Las Vegas Review Journal
- ^Global Poker Index Sold to Alex Dreyfus' Zokay Entertainment on pokerfuse.com
- ^Vanessa Selbst is currently 2nd in the Global Poker Index according to the Las Vegas Review Journal
- ^French RankingsArchived 2012-12-20 at the Wayback Machine on MadeInPoker and on the French Poker FederationArchived 2012-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Italian Rankings on CardPlayer.it
- ^Latin American Rankings on CodigoPoker
- ^the race for the Global Poker Index leadership week after week on Pokernews
- ^Global Poker Index Announces the Global Poker Masters: 'It's Going to Be Poker's World Cup!' on Pokernews
- ^The GPI European Poker Awards: A Guaranteed Success on Poker 52 Europa
- ^Fantasy Poker Manager Named Official Fantasy Game of the World Poker Tour on workdpokertour.com
- ^The top 25 things to watch at the 2014 World Series of Poker in the Las Vegas Sun
- ^The GPI expand into print with their new magazine on Calvin Ayre's website.
External links[edit]
| Countries | Canada |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Cricket Canada, Bombay Sports Limited[1] |
| Format | 20-over cricket |
| First edition | 2018 |
| Latest edition | 2019 |
| Tournament format | Round-robin and playoffs |
| Number of teams | 6 |
| Current champion | Winnipeg Hawks (1st title) |
| Most successful | Vancouver Knights Winnipeg Hawks (1 title each) |
| Website | www.gt20.ca |
The Global T20 Canada is a 20-over cricket tournament played in Canada.[2] The first edition of the tournament took place during June and July 2018 with six teams competing.[2] Each team featured four local Canadian cricketers in each squad, along with international players.[3] The inaugural tournament in 2018 took place at the Maple Leaf Cricket Club in King City, Ontario, while the 2019 tournament took place at the CAA Centre in Brampton, Ontario. Bombay Sports Limited are the owners of the league, and also the organizers of the Euro T20 Slam that was set to begin on August 30, 2019.[1]
The International Cricket Council (ICC) sanctioned the tournament in February 2018, and it is the first fully sanctioned T20 league in North America outside of the Caribbean.[4] Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was pleased with the ICC's decision to approve the league.[5]
In May 2018, Cricket Canada announced that the inaugural edition of the tournament would start on 28 June, with the final being held on 15 July 2018.[6] Vancouver Knights won the tournament, beating Cricket West Indies B Team by seven wickets in the final.[7]
The 2019 league began on 25 July, with the final match taking place on 11 August.[8] The second-round game between Montreal Tigers and Toronto Nationals on August 7, 2019, was delayed for two hours in a protest over unpaid wages; some pay issues date back to the 2018 tournament. The protest occurred even though Toronto Nationals captain Yuvraj Singh's fundraiser for his YouWeCan Foundation, had been hosted two days earlier by League organizers.[1] The third season of the tournament, scheduled to be held in 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9]
Teams[edit]
Current[edit]
| Team | Debut | Captain | Coach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brampton Wolves | 2019 | Daren Sammy | Phil Simmons |
| Edmonton Royals | 2018 | Mohammad Hafeez | Stephen Fleming |
| Montreal Tigers | 2018 | George Bailey | Tom Moody |
| Toronto Nationals | 2018 | Yuvraj Singh | Geoff Lawson |
| Vancouver Knights | 2018 | Shoaib Malik | Donovan Miller |
| Winnipeg Hawks | 2018 | Rayad Emrit | Lalchand Rajput |
Former[edit]
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| Team | Debut | Last |
|---|---|---|
| Cricket West Indies B Team | 2018 |
Results[edit]
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| Season | Final | Final venue | Player of the series | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Winning margin | Runner-up | |||
| 2018 | Vancouver Knights 148/3 (17.3 overs) | Won by 7 wickets | Cricket West Indies B Team 145 (17.4 overs) | Maple Leaf Cricket Club in King City, Ontario | Lendl Simmons (Winnipeg Hawks) |
| 2019 | Winnipeg Hawks 192/8 (20 overs) 21/0 (super over) | Won super over by 5 runs | Vancouver Knights 192/6 (20 overs) 16/1 (super over) | CAA Centre in Brampton, Ontario | JP Duminy (Winnipeg Hawks) |
Media[edit]
Mediapro was appointed as 'global consultant' for Global T20 Canada's media rights in 2019, handling aspects of world feed production and international distribution via its various regional subsidiaries. Locally, the tournament's broadcast rights are split between Asian Television Network and TSN.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ abcPenna, Peter Della (7 August 2019). 'Toronto Nationals and Montreal Tigers refuse to take field over unpaid wages'. ESPNcricinfo.com. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ ab'Cricket Canada announces ICC-approved T20 league'. ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^'ICC gives green light to Global T20 Canada League, Justin Trudeau wishes luck'. Hindustan Times. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^'ICC Gives Go Ahead To Global Twenty20 Canada'. NDTV. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^'Justin Trudeau Pleased With ICC Approval For Canada's T20 League'. News18. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^'Cricket Canada's inaugural T20 league to begin in June'. ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^'Chris Gayle-led Vancouver Knights win inaugural Global T20 Canada cricket title'. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^'Global T20 Cricket League starts July 25th'. GT20 Canada. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ^'GLOBAL T20 CANADA POSTPONED'. Cricket Canada. 14 August 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^'Global T20 Canada League Appoints Mediapro as New Global Consultant'. Sports Video Group. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
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