Here are your favorites, Team U.S. Looking at the list of these five players, there isn't a weak spot to be found. Even the lowest country ranked player — Isaac Haxton — is widely considered one of the greatest minds in the game.

Vanessa Selbst was a late addition to the team and certainly will be welcomed by the other four team members. Selbst is one of the best tournament poker players ever, and she's not someone to take an event lightly. Expect her to bring her top game to Malta.

Along with Haxton and Selbst, you've got Bryn Kenney, Olivier Busquet, and Dan Smith rounding out the squad. These are three of the best players the poker world has to offer. Kenney can get a little wild and crazy sometimes with his style, but having a looser, open-minded, aggressive player can be a good thing in this format. You definitely don't want an entire team made up of Kenney-like players, but he'll complement the others very well. Busquet and Smith are very calculated players and will be extremely difficult players for other teams to deal with.

If we were able to grade each and every decision made by teams in the GPM, we'd expect Team U.S. to have the most consistently high score.