Global Poker League teams have been drafted!

The biggest draft in the history of poker games is done and 48 players have been assigned to join the 12 teams in the first ever Global Poker League. Teams were allowed to draft from a list of 203 players hand-selected from the top 1000 players from the Global Poker Index database.

Each team manager was allowed to pick players practically from anywhere in the world, regardless of their nationality or current geographic location.

Teams picked four players today but they are also still allowed an two extra “wildcards”, which doesn’t have to necessarily be even GPL eligible.

Interestingly a couple players dropped out of the Global Poker League at very short notice. Antonio Esfandiari and Canadian grinder Shawn Buchanan had to get out of the GPL pool due to their personal reasons.

Here’s a look at all the players chosen for the 1st Global Poker League:
Rome Emperors
Team Manager: Max Pescatori
Players chosen:
1. Mustapha Kanit
24. Dario Sammartino
25. Timothy Adams
48. Walter Treccarichi

Montreal Nationals
Team Manager: Marc-Andre Ladouceur
Players chosen:

2. Mike “Timex” McDonald
23. Martin Jacobson
26. Pascal Lefrancois
47. Xuan Liu

New York Rounders
Team Manager: Bryn Kenney
Players chosen:

3. Jason Mercier
22. Tom Marchese
27. Kevin MacPhee
46. Jason Wheeler

San Francisco Rush
Team Manager: Faraz Jaka
Players chosen:

4. Phil Galfond
21. Anthony Gregg
28. Kitty Kuo
45. Anton Wigg

Las Vegas Moneymakers
Team Manager: Chris Moneymaker
Players chosen:

5. Anthony Zinno
20. Jonathan Duhamel
29. Jake Cody
44. Jonathan Little

Sao Paulo Metropolitans
Team Manager: Andre Akkari
Players chosen:

6. Darren Elias
19. Byron Kaverman
30. Thiago Nishijima
43. Joao Pires Simao

London Royals
Team Manager: Liv Boeree
Players chosen:

7. Igor Kurganov
18. Vanessa Selbst
31. Chris Moorman
42. Justin Bonomo

Moscow Wolverines
Team Manager: Anatoly Filatov
Players chosen:

8. Dzmitry Urbanovich
17. Vladimir Troyanovskiy
32. Andrey Pateychuk
41. Sergey Lebedev

Los Angeles Sunset
Team Manager: Maria Ho
Players chosen:

9. Fedor Holz
16. Olivier Busquet
33. Eugene Katchalov
40. Chance Kornuth

Berlin Bears
Team Manager: Phillip Gruissem
Players chosen:

10. Brian Rast
15. Sorel Mizzi
34. Dominik Nitsche
39. Jeff Gross

Paris Aviators
Team Manager: Fabrice Soulier
Players chosen:

11. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier
14. Davidi Kitai
35. George Danzer
38. Mike Leah

Hong Kong Stars
Team Manager: Celina Lin
Players chosen:

12. Weiya Zhang
13. Raiden Kan
36. Dong Guo
37. Bryan Huang

What do you think of the picks?Which of them has the best chance to win the inaugural Global Poker league in your opinion?

Liv's team seems the best

The team Elky is on also seems really good

Los angelese for sure

Sad news, nobody will pee at the table now

FeelsBadMan

LA stars for the win.

Lot of really good teams. I would choose San Fran.

Can we bet on this some how?