Recently, it was announced that UB.com will join forces with the Global Poker League (GPL). The GPL and UB.com have established the “three C’s” of poker – camaraderie, competition, and cash. Through special GPL tables on UB.com, the organizations are looking to build on these premises with a range of sit and gos. The cost for these varies from $1 to $11 and feature six-handed, nine-handed, and 18-handed sit and gos.
Players can sign up for one or both of the GPL Singles Masters or GPL Team Masters and earn points for playing on special UB.com GPL tables. These points will be important over the span of the six-month competition.
When a player enters one of the special sit and gos at the GPL tables, they will not only be earning leaderboard points for themselves. but UB will also donate $0.10 of their rake to the end-of-season Masters Prize Pool, so the more players involved, the higher the prize pool will grow.
The six-month season is divided into three periods of 50 days, with prizes to be won at the end of each in both league categories. At the completion of every 50-day period, the top ten points-earners on the singles and teams ladders can receive some killer UB merchandise.
The top 50% of points-earners for each period make it to the playoffs at the end of the six-month season where they will compete for a sizeable prize pool in the Masters tournament. UB will award the top three in the Single Masters and each member of the winning team in the Team Masters a $3,000 ticket to a 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) side event. In addition, 70% of the cash built over the previous six months in the Masters Prize Pool will be allocated to the Players Masters and 30% will go to the Team Masters.
Although the program was set to begin today, there has already been a great deal of interest. There are 43 teams that have been created prior to the November 15th start of the GPL from such nations as Afghanistan, Spain, Germany, Canada, Russia, and the United States. Although only nine teams have been fully completed, it’s expected that all teams will be filled as competition continues.
Almost 9,200 players have signed up for the Singles competition. The GPL breaks down the numbers by gender (men heavily outnumber women), age (over one-third of the players are 21 to 29), and country. These numbers also should only grow as the competition heats up.
Another key feature of the GPL is a special forum for players. This forum allows GPL participants to talk smack against other players or teams, discuss the competition on the leaderboards, or just talk about poker. The forums are available in five different languages: English, German, Russian, Spanish, and Croatian.
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