Global Poker League: ecco i nomi dei 203 player selezionabili. Prima scelta ai Roman Emperors!



Manca poco ormai al fatidico 25 febbraio, giorno in cui si procederà al draft ufficiale della Global Poker League.
Il nuovo format ha avuto un ottimo riscontro tra i top player mondiali, la maggior parte dei quali ha deciso di rendersi 'eleggibile' dai rispettivi team-leader, tra cui il nostro Max Pescatori.
Proprio il capitano dei Roman Emperors avrà il privilegio di poter avere la prima scelta, un vantaggio che consentirebbe al 'Pirata' di aggiudicarsi il nostro Mustapha Kanit senza dover rivaleggiare con nessuno. In una receente intervista il Pesca aveva dichiarato di voler "almeno due, se non tre, italiani in squadra". L'occasione per accaparrarsi il miglior azzurro di tutti i tempi sembra ghiotta, ma le sorprese potrebbero essere dietro l'angolo. 
 
Già, perché nonostante l'appeal di Mustacchione, sarà difficile lasciarsi sfuggire giocatori del calibro di Fedor Holz, Jason Mercier, Davidi Kitai, Kevin MacPhee, Byron Kaverman, Mike Mc Donald, Igor Kurganov e via discorrendo. 
 
La scorsa settimana infatti, ben 203 giocatori presenti nella top 1000 del ranking GPI hanno dato il loro assenso per partecipare al draft di giovedì e a ben guardare non sarà difficile comporre un team di stelle assolute. A prescindere dall'esito della selezione. 
 
Oltre ai fenomeni mondiali già citati compaiono altri campioni come Antony Zinno, Dominik Nitsche, Dzmitry Urbanovich (fresco vincitore del Main Event EPT di Dublino), Jonathan Duhamel, Martic Jacobson, Brian Raast, Bejamin Pollak, Nial Farrel, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Scott Clements, Andrew Chen, Jonathan Little, Sorel Mizzi oltre ovviamente ai nostri Dario Sammartino, Andrea Dato, Rocco Palumbo, Antonio Buonanno, Gianluca Escobar, Muhamet Perati, Walter Treccarichi e Iacopo Brandi
 
Senza contare il rivale di Kanit all'ultimo EPT High Roller, il britannico Chance Kornuth, la donna più vincente della storia, Vanessa Selbst, il campione WSOP Jake Cody, o due 'totem' quali Phil Galfond e Chris Moorman. 
 
Insomma, l'elite del poker mondiale ha risposto 'presente' e ora non resta che attendere il responso del draft per capire quali saranno 64 giocatori che daranno vita alla prima edizione della Global Poker League. 
 
Ecco la lista completa dei 'papabili' con tanto di vincite lorde ottenute in carriera:

 

Giocatore

Nazionalità

GPI Rank

Vincite Live

Vincite Online

Byron Kaverman

USA

1

$6,757,855

--

Anthony Zinno

USA

3

$5,337,383

--

Kevin MacPhee

USA

5

$5,424,937

$7,118,382

Jason Mercier

USA

6

$16,356,296

$2,001,750

Fedor Holz

GER

9

$7,549,491

--

Davidi Kitai

BEL

10

$6,757,706

$448,657

Dominik Nitsche

GER

13

$5,164,231

$3,398,488

Dzmitry Urbanovich

POL

16

$4,190,393

--

Mike McDonald

CAN

18

$12,949,811

$2,940,067

Jonathan Duhamel

CAN

21

$17,592,802

--

Thomas Marchese

USA

24

$12,404,012

--

Benjamin Pollak

FRA

25

$2,613,573

$327,067

Mustapha Kanit

ITA

31

$5,497,875

$4,203,118

Sam Greenwood

CAN

33

$2,798,230

$3,653,541

Igor Yaroshevskyy

UKR

34

$1,695,666

--

Darren Elias

USA

35

$3,505,319

$3,646,815

Jason Wheeler

USA

36

$2,298,881

--

Brian Rast

USA

38

$16,313,290

--

Dario Sammartino

ITA

39

$3,251,024

-- 

Niall Farrell

SCO

41

$1,939,694

$2,456,781

Vladimir Troyanovskiy

RUS

42

$4,199,228

--

Scott Clements

USA

44

$6,975,297

$3,717,126

Ankush Mandavia

USA

45

$2,316,280

$2,773,923

Mike Leah

CAN

48

$5,040,388

$2,762,255

Jared Jaffee

USA

49

$2,730,423

--

Ismael Bojang

AUT

51

$1,870,754

--

Hans Winzeler

USA

53

$2,009,527

--

David Yan

NZL

57

$1,580,140

$829,705

Shannon Shorr

USA

59

$6,052,301

--

Michael Wang

USA

66

$1,433,921

$1,001,503

Andrew Chen

CAN

67

$4,652,583

$1,993,787

Mohsin Charania

USA

71

$4,724,869

--

Jeremy Ausmus

USA

75

$4,788,806

--

Sylvain Loosli

FRA

76

$4,857,533

--

Samuel Chartier

CAN

77

$2,455,530

-- 

Jeff Madsen

USA

80

$5,147,837

--

Brian Yoon

USA

81

$2,788,075

--

Scott Davies

USA

86

$1,536,893

--

Nipun Java

IND

87

$1,654,477

--

Justin Bonomo

USA

88

$9,690,053

-- 

Vladimir Dobrovolskiy

RUS

90

$803,830

--

Christian Harder

USA

99

$3,616,452

$3,239,083

Kiryl Radzivonau

BLR

103

$1,534,334

$868,103

Jonathan Little

USA

106

$6,257,741

$1,053,162

Sorel Mizzi

CAN

110

$11,148,823

--

Govert Metaal

NED

115

$2,117,699

--

Andrey Pateychuk

RUS

116

$2,873,717

-- 

Ben Yu

USA

121

$1,582,932

$42,575

Matthew Glantz

USA

133

$6,021,692

--

Igor Kurganov

RUS

137

$10,218,893

--

Jussi Nevanlinna

FIN

140

$1,843,978

--

Ricardo Alvarado

USA

143

$434,651

--

Oliver Price

ENG

145

$1,465,232

--

Upeshka De Silva

USA

149

$1,010,803

-- 

Aaron Mermelstein

USA

150

$1,326,382

--

Dylan Wilkerson

USA

151

$1,791,157

--

Sam Stein

USA

153

$4,601,497

$1,611,926

Jake Schwartz

USA

154

$985,822

--

Erwann Pecheux

FRA

155

$1,169,511

--

Allen Kessler

USA

163

$3,229,616

--

Aleksandr Gofman

RUS

169

$873,576

--

Justin Young

USA

172

$3,651,893

--

Max Silver

USA

175

$2,358,622

--

Alex Rocha

USA

186

$763,079

--

Jose Carlos Garcia

POL

189

$1,183,077

$1,973,897

Bertrand Grospellier

FRA

192

$10,922,427

--

Jeffrey Gross

USA

193

$2,450,671

$522,393

David Baker

USA

197

$3,767,257

--

Christopher DeMaci

USA

198

$2,026,257

-- 

Justin Liberto

USA

204

$1,833,347

$147,690

George Danzer

GER

205

$2,249,980

--

Rep Porter

USA

206

$2,900,670

--

Dani Stern

USA

210

$2,733,207

$1,763,804

David Vamplew

SCO

215

$3,599,940

$1,970,537

Justin Oliver

USA

216

$911,087

--

Raiden Kan

HKG

220

$866,303

--

Javier Zarco

ESP

223

$1,204,811

-- 

Chance Kornuth

USA

228

$3,241,176

$1,762,732

Noah Bronstein

USA

230

$526,940

--

Timothy Reilly

USA

232

$821,795

$1,171,445

Christopher Tryba

USA

235

$1,655,716

--

Iliodoros Kamatakis

GRE

239

$623,682

--

Walter Treccarichi

ITA

249

$819,052

--

Thomas Butzhammer

GER

250

$1,124,432

--

Tobias Peters

NED

256

$851,826

--

Chris Hunichen

USA

264

$1,201,785

$8,136,397

Iaron Lightbourne

ENG

266

$1,208,280

--

Benjamin Keeline

USA

268

$562,337

--

Leo Wolpert

USA

272

$1,631,600

$992,529

Martin Jacobson

SWE

273

$15,045,724

--

Matthew Salsberg

CAN

277

$1,948,129

--

Joseph Ebanks

USA

278

$3,107,576

--

John Holley

USA

279

$1,391,384

--

Scott Baumstein

USA

281

$1,477,398

--

David Paredes

USA

309

$2,270,126

--

Felix Bleiker

SWI

291

$545,508

--

Michael Laake

USA

293

$704,645

--

Diogo Cardoso

POR

294

$532,175

--

Joseph Couden

USA

295

$1,090,210

--

Jordan Cristos

USA

297

$613,355

$1,064,411

David Tuthill

ENG

300

$1,448,234

--

Seth Berger

USA

301

$1,005,125

--

Jonathan Karamalikis

AUS

304

$2,567,014

$5,812,977

Isaac Baron

USA

305

$5,364,815

--

Anton Wigg

SWE

306

$1,995,352

$6,178,797

Kitty Kuo

TAI

308

$1,091,426

--

Noah Schwartz

USA

316

$5,264,152

$780,358

Eugene Katchalov

UKR

317

$8,669,109

--

Yung Hwang

USA

319

$1,731,468

--

Vanessa Selbst

USA

321

$11,728,256

-- 

Ryan Van Sanford

USA

323

$840,175

--

Chad Eveslage

USA

325

$667,597

$3,304,103

Matthew Affleck

USA

333

$1,782,928

--

Manig Loeser

GER

337

$1,563,516

--

Darren Rabinowitz

USA

340

$1,164,160

$87,935

Kelly Minkin

USA

342

$779,519

--

Natasha Barbour

CAN

347

$688,855

--

Christopher Klodnicki

USA

353

$8,286,614

-- 

Rocco Palumbo

ITA

354

$1,693,398

$3,373,454

Timothy Adams

CAN

355

$2,546,978

$1,403,178

Iacopo Brandi

ITA

356

$337,148

--

Xuan Liu

CAN

359

$1,649,190

--

Mike Gorodinsky

USA

361

$2,616,750

--

Konstantin Puchkov

RUS

362

$2,364,898

--

Jake Cody

ENG

363

$4,132,822

$697,494

Dong Guo

CHN

372

$554,374

--

Daniel Weinman

USA

373

$1,211,132

--

Thiago Nishijima

BRA

374

$1,784,213

--

Bryan Paris

USA

380

$705,804

--

Nick Pupillo

USA

381

$635,441

--

Justin Schwartz

USA

384

$1,123,924

$3,042

Jason Les

USA

403

$1,029,967

--

Antonio Buonanno

ITA

405

$2,345,771

--

Adam Owen

UK

408

$305,147

--

Andrea Dato

ITA

409

$1,719,798

--  

Samuel Panzica

USA

411

$731,845

-- 

Emil Patel

USA

427

$670,937

--

Pieter de Korver

NED

432

$4,075,231

--

Antonio Esfandiari

USA

434

$26,495,567

--

Alexander Ivarsson

SWE

438

$391,513

--

Ben Winsor

ENG

450

$622,568

--

Jesse Sylvia

USA

451

$5,987,767

-- 

Nikolay Fal

RUS

468

$224,411

$635,168

Li-Ta Hsu

TPE

471

$313,665

--

Esther Taylor-Brady

USA

481

$556,610

--

Diwei Bryan Huang

SIN

486

$854,703

$335,550

Alexandru Masek

USA

492

$1,306,752

--

Joao Pires Simao

BRA

493

$508,033

--

James Rann

ENG

494

$550,886

$221,883

Ray Henson

USA

517

$2,019,553

--

Anthony Gregg

USA

522

$10,476,457

--

Jared Griener

USA

533

$383,117

--

Maxx Coleman

USA

534

$1,201,594

-- 

Daniel Strelitz

USA

538

$1,038,680

$1,412,310

Jonas Lauck

GER

540

$1,137,266

$733,646

Valentin Vornicu

ROM

558

$482,454

$178,360

Shawn Buchanan

CAN

566

$5,902,874

--

Dara O'Kearney

IRL

571

$747,503

$1,884,206

Nicolau Villa-Lobos

BRA

573

$1,160,434

--

Jason Mo

USA

589

$1,806,754

--

Phil Galfond

USA

594

$2,339,619

-- 

Oleksandr Gnatenko

URK

600

$574,052

$868,763

Felipe "Mojave" Ramos

BRA

606

$969,051

$701,286

Sergey Lebedev

RUS

612

$1,087,222

--

Kou Vang

USA

616

$892,601

$82,883

Terry Fan

TAI

624

$715,496

--

Jerry Wong

USA

641

$1,299,996

--

Olov Jansson

SWE

645

$153,367

--

Keith Lehr

USA

649

$2,736,773

--

Cate Hall

USA

651

$420,675

--

Kenneth Aldridge

USA

656

$1,280,877

$30,538

Fabrizio Gonzalez Cataldi

ARG

660

$1,175,430

--

Dmitry Vitkind

RUS

672

$1,290,923

$628,228

Jason Helder

USA

703

$1,717,441

--

James Collopy

USA

713

$1,251,342

-- 

David Nowling

USA

720

$184,692

--

Matthew Schultz

USA

733

$406,720

$584

Gianluca Escobar

ITA

747

$243,329

$923,354

Aaron Overton

USA

748

$678,478

--

William Foxen

USA

757

$183,920

$552,446

Brian Benhamou

FRA

762

$616,564

--

Jonathan Roy

CAN

765

$2,087,523

--

Peter Eichhardt

SWE

769

$820,570

--

Carlos Chadha

USA

785

$471,832

--

Chris Moorman

ENG

793

$4,107,768

$12,963,272

Guillaume Diaz

FRA

795

$372,351

--

Weiyi Zhang

CHN

823

$253,446

--

Andrey Kotelnikov

RUS

834

$200,126

--

Phong 'Turbo' Nguyen

USA

836

$980,570

--

Romain Lewis

FRA

847

$216,455

--

William Reynolds

USA

871

$1,808,446

$1,698,059

Muhamet Perati

ALB

875

$416,232

--

Clyde Tjauw For

NED

885

$517,335

--

Fatima Moreira de Melo

NED

891

$440,228

--

Gregory Marcus

USA

906

$329,253

--

Mark Radoja

CAN

908

$1,906,952

--

Dylan Hortin

USA

915

$651,514

--

Phillip Mcallister

ENG

944

$540,467

$2,052,592

Joe Tehan

USA

955

$4,287,302

--

Guy Taylor

ENG

961

$136,769

$337,208

Luis Ferreira

BRA

972

$456,789

--

Petr Jelinek

CZE

987

$343,023

--

 

 

 

 

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