Two more teams announce their final lineups for the first season of the Global Poker League, and BetStars are offering early odds on the action.
The London Royals are the early favorites to win the inaugural Global Poker League (GPL) according to BetStars.
PokerStars very own sports betting outlet are the first to offer odds on the GPL. They are offering a wide variety of different bets including outrights, conference bets, and individual matchup bets.
Here is the current betting on the outright market at the time of writing.
Outright Winner
• London Royals 7/1
• LA Sunset 8/1
• Berlin Bears 8/1
• New York Rounders 8/1
• San Francisco Rush 9/1
• Las Vegas Moneymakers 10/1
• Rome Emperors 10/1
• Moscow Wolverines 11/1
• Paris Aviators 11/1
• Montreal Nationals 11/1
• Sao Paolo Mets 11/1
• Hong Kong Stars 14/1
Conference Winners
LA Sunset, New York Rounders, and San Francisco Rush are joint 4/1 favorites to win the Americas Conference. London Royals are the 3/1 favorites to win the Eurasia Conference.
Match Prices
The scheduling for the first week is complete.
On Tuesday, 5 April the following players will represent their franchises in six-max action. The odds are from BetStars.
Eurasia Conference
• Daniel Cates – Berlin Bears (7/2)
• Igor Kurganov – London Royals (7/2)
• Davidi Kitai – Paris Aviators (4/1)
• Dzmitry Urbanovich – Moscow Wolverines (4/1)
• Walter Treccarichi – Rome Emperors (5/1/)
• Weiyi Zhang – Hong Kong Stars (5/1)
Americas Conference
• Mike McDonald – Montreal Nationals (4/1)
• Anthony Gregg – San Francisco Rush (4/1)
• Anthony Zinno – Las Vegas Moneymakers (9/2)
• Byron Kaverman – Sao Paolo Mets (9/2)
• Fedor Holz – LA Sunset (9/2)
• Jason Wheeler – New York Rounders (9/2)
Heads Up Matches
• Sergey Lebedev (Moscow Wolverines) 5/6 v 5/6 Randy Lew (Hong Kong Stars)
• Daniel Cates (Berlin Bears) 7/10 v 21/20 Bertrand Grospellier (Paris Aviators)
• Timothy Adams (Rome Emperors) 5/6 v 5/6 Justin Bonomo (London Royals)
• Olivier Busquets (LA Sunset) 7/10 v 21/20 Darren Elias (Sao Paolo Mets)
• Anton Wigg (San Francisco Rush) 8/11 v 1/1 Martin Jacobson (Montreal Nationals)
• Tom Marchese (New York Rounders) 3/4 v 1/1 Anthony Zinno (Las Vegas Moneymakers)
Montreal and Hong Kong Release Wildcard Picks
Montreal Nationals
Montreal Nationals Team Manager Marc-Andre Ladouceur has included himself in the team, along with Montreal native Jason Lavallee.
Ladouceur plays online as ‘pocketpayett’ and has over $1m in online tournament earnings. The man from Montreal also has over $1.7m in live tournament earnings including a 63rd and 13th place finish in the 2011 and 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
Lavallee has over $2.1m in online earnings where he plays under the name of ‘StatusUp’ and over $2.4m in live tournament earnings including runner-up finishes in European Poker Tour (EPT) and World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Events, and an EPT High Roller title.
Montreal Nationals Lineup
1. Marc-Andre Ladouceur (Player Manager)
2. Mike McDonald
3. Martin Jacobson
4. Pascal LeFrancois
5. Xuan Liu
6. Jason Lavellee
Hong Kong Stars
The Hong Kong Stars received a double influx of PokerStars powerhouses as Team Manager Celina Lin decided to include her talents in the squad, and Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew also joined the team that starts the GPL as the outside bet.
Celina Lin has earned close to $600,000 in live tournaments including two victories in the PokerStars Macau Poker Cup. Lew has made close to a million dollars playing online under the alias ‘nanonoko’, and over $1.1m playing live tournaments including victory in the Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Main Event in Macau back in 2011.
Hong Kong Lineup
1. Celina Lin (Player Manager)
2. Weiyi Zhang
3. Raiden Kan
4. Dong Guo
5. Bryan Huang
6. Randy Lew
That means only Maria Ho and the LA Sunset are the only GPL side without a full squad.
