GPL Results, Standings, and Schedule After Week 2: Paris and Montreal In Front

April 15, 2016

Donnie Peters

Welcome to the weekly rundown of the Global Poker League here on PokerNews. In this space, all of the past week's results from the GPL will be listed, followed by league standings and a look at the following week's schedule.

Week 2 saw the biggest positive moves come from the Montreal Nationals in the Americas Conference and the Moscow Wolverines in the EurAsia Conference. Both jumped two spots in their respective conference standings, and each jump meant different things. For Montreal, the team went from the middle of the pack to a nice lead. For Moscow, the team went from the bottom portion of its conference up to third.

Montreal's jump was a turnaround effort by the squad, after it started off with just one point from a fifth-place finish in the conference's first six-max match on Tuesday. Xuan Liu was the player competing for the Nationals and rebounded in the second match with a win for seven points. Then in the heads-up portion on Thursday, Pascal Lefrancois won all three matches against Thiago Nishijima for nine total points.

Although Moscow moved the most places in the EurAsia Conference, it was the Paris Aviators with another good week, banking 15 points total and moving into first place. The Hong Kong Stars got off to a strong start in Week 1, but after a lackluster Week 2 coupled with Paris' success, Celina Lin's squad dropped to seven points behind Paris.

Another big development involved the Berlin Bears, who failed to earn any points in the EurAsia's two six-match matches from Week 1, both times Dan Cates finished in sixth for a big, fat zero. In Week 2, Berlin turned to Dominik Nitsche, and he guided the team to a win in the first match for seven points, then a second-place finish in the second match for five points. Berlin added another six points in the heads-up portion of Week 2 and is now ahead of the Rome Emperors, who had the No. 1 pick in the draft.

Week 2 Results

Place	Player	Team	Points
Match 1	6-Max
1	Dominik Nitsche	Berlin Bears	7
2	Mike Leah	Paris Aviators	5
3	Mustapha Kanit	Rome Emperors	3
4	Bryan Huang	Hong Kong Stars	2
5	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Moscow Wolverines	1
6	Justin Bonomo	London Royals	0


Match 2	6-Max
Place	Player	Team	Points
1	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Moscow Wolverines	7
2	Dominik Nitsche	Berlin Bears	5
3	Mike Leah	Paris Aviators	3
4	Mustapha Kanit	Rome Emperors	2
5	Justin Bonomo	London Royals	1
6	Dong Guo	Hong Kong Stars	0


Match 3	6-Max
Place	Player	Team	Points
1	Kitty Kuo	San Francisco Rush	7
2	Joao Pires Simao	Sao Paulo Metropolitans	5
3	Fedor Holz	Los Angeles Sunset	3
4	Jonathan Duhamel	Las Vegas Moneymakers	2
5	Xuan Liu	Montreal Nationals	1
6	Kevin MacPhee	New York Rounders	0


Match 4	6-Max
Place	Player	Team	Points
1	Xuan Liu	Montreal Nationals	7
2	Chance Kornuth	Los Angeles Sunset	5
3	Jake Cody	Las Vegas Moneymakers	3
4	Kitty Kuo	San Francisco Rush	2
5	Joao Pires Simao	Sao Paulo Metropolitans	1
6	Kevin MacPhee	New York Rounders	0


Match 5	Heads-Up
Player	Team	Wins	Points
Sam Trickett	London Royals	2	6
Randy Lew	Hong Kong Stars	1	3


Match 6	Heads-Up
Player	Team	Wins	Points
Alex Luneau	Paris Aviators	2	6
Dario Sammartino	Rome Emperors	1	3


Match 7	Heads-Up
Player	Team	Wins	Points
Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Moscow Wolverines	2	6
Dominik Nitsche	Berlin Bears	1	3


Match 8	Heads-Up
Player	Team	Wins	Points
Pascal Lefrancois	Montreal Nationals	3	9
Thiago Nishijima	Sao Paulo Metropolitans	0	0


Match 9	Heads-Up
Player	Team	Wins	Points
Jason Mercier	New York Rounders	3	9
Phil Galfond	San Francisco Rush	0	0


Match 10	Heads-Up
Player	Team	Wins	Points
Olivier Busquet	New York Rounders	2	6
Jonathan Duhamel	Las Vegas Moneymakers	1	3

Standings

Place	Team	Points	Wins
Americas Conference
1	Montreal Nationals	29	3
2	New York Rounders	25	3
3	Los Angeles Sunset	23	2
4	Las Vegas Moneymakers	21	0
5	San Francisco Rush	15	2
6	Sao Paulo Metropolitans	13	0

EurAsia Conference
Place	Team	Points	Wins
1	Paris Aviators	30	3
2	Hong Kong Stars	23	2
3	Moscow Wolverines	19	2
4	London Royals	19	2
5	Berlin Bears	18	1
6	Rome Emperors	17	0

Next Week's Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Match
April 19	12 p.m.	Eurasia 6-Max
	1:40 p.m.	Eurasia 6-Max
	3:30 p.m.	Americas 6-Max
	5:10 p.m.	Americas 6-Max
April 20	12 p.m.	Berlin Bears vs. Hong Kong Stars
	2:30 p.m.	London Royals vs. Paris Aviators
	5 p.m.	Rome Emperors vs. Moscow Wolverines
April 21	1 p.m.	Sao Paulo Metropolitans vs. Las Vegas Moneymakers
	3:30 p.m.	Los Angeles Sunset vs. San Francisco Rush
	6 p.m.	New York Rounders vs. Montreal Nationals