Alex, I've just been playing the HoldemX Alpha.
Where is there some kind of feedback site?

Not sure this should be in the GPL thread either.

Why? Before your awards last year when we tried to alert you to this specific problem (via email) your reply was that it was not your fight. Or is my memory off?

Best wishes,
Mason

dear lord.

first the wheels fall off PokerStars juggernaut.

Then 2+2 goes completely full on bat **** crazy.

Poker confirmed a thing of the past.

Unsubscribe from NVG.

Been fun though while it lasted.

I just checked, it was AFTER the awards that we had our exchange about you not being happy that 2,200 people voted for Negreanu. The fight between you and him, is not mine and I don't want to be dragged in. My focus is to promote poker and players.

I'm fine to take heat on decisions I take, but I can't be blamed for everything. Blame Amaya Its always the fault of Amaya

I suggest you reread the email I sent you on Nov 23, 2014 at 9:01 PM which was over four months before your awards dinner. If you can't find it, I can send you a copy.

And just to set the record straight, we at Two Plus Two do hope that you're successful with your sportifying poker because we believe it will have a positive effect on our game.

Mason

Looks like the medium he wants is the twoplustwo forum.

Hi LektorAJ:

You're more right about this than you realize since Dreyfuss has inquired about purchasing this website (and there's nothing wrong with making an inquiry). But it's not for sale, and we believe that keeping www.twoplustwo.com independent of other poker companies is in the best interest of the poker industry.

Best wishes,
Mason

What I object to is a party, who claim they want to remain independent, feeling they have the right to influence nominations in an awards ballot.

The apology to the 'poker community' should be coming from somewhere else.

Best wishes,
Pete

WOW

I don't think there is anything nefarious here but did not expect to hear that.

Just of curiosity, why would you air that in public? Is it really anyone's business. Seems very unprofessional of you, almost childish.

P.S. Will you ever forgive Dnegs for his sins. Let the anger go, it will set you free

P.P.S if you did want to sell 2+2, how much we talking? I mean, everyone has their price, right?

I like the way where this thread is going.

Alex,

Seeing as you're in a buying mood, I've got some magic beans for sale.
PM me for details...

fyp ... if sold i want 10%

Mason will obviously speak for himself but about your general point I don't think its true that everyone has their price.

What kind of consumer items could you get with money that would be better than having your own thing that you have built yourself?

This makes me really sad. I really want to be positive about GPL/H-X but this makes it real hard man.

We have an industry with operators who have proven they clearly can't find a way to satisfy hardcore poker players (with maybe the exception of Unibet in recent years)... And your presenting opportunities to license to these providers??????? For real?!!!? Whaht?

I can't say I believe this to be action of someone who wants to pokerfy e-sports for hardcore poker players, given its clear (Crystal Clear) what hardcore online poker players need and the money grabs that have taken place over the last five years.

There's a massive opportunity here to print money for fun, for say maybe a couple of decades (if you do this right) and become a billionaire...by monopolizefying online poker in a new direction... and your considering handing this opportunity over to providers who will kill your game within say maybe 24 months by "rigging" rake/revenue models across the industry, inefficiently detecting bots, pissing off hardcore grinders.

I'm really disappointed about this and I don't want to be.

P.S. So this is what Negs was talking about being on the horizon at Stars regarding software on the Ingram podcasts?

Purchasing a little advertising at 2+2 for the Global Poker League might go a long way to smoothing out the waters.

Answering questions in a newsworthy topic is one thing. But it starts turning into an attempt to get free advertising when someone's posting the most by far in the thread, kicking it up several times a day like with the 'question' about Hearthstone, etc.

Honestly, there's so many posts by adreyfus being made with so little info, he probably would have been better off just waiting until something interesting develops to start posting more. But now that Mason's noticed his excessive posting, he should probably start buying some ads to smooth out the waters.

FYI, Pokernews just released the list of the 203 payers who signed-up for the GPL Draft ($550 Million of live (tournaments) winnings and $100mm of online), +60 WSOP bracelets and +30 WPT titles. Not sure I'm allowed to put the link, so I copy/paste the list

Here's the full list of the 203 Draft participants

Name Surname GPI POS 31/12/15 Nationality Live Earnings Online Earnings (PocketFives)
Byron Kaverman 1 USA $6,757,855
Anthony Zinno 3 USA $5,337,383 -
Kevin MacPhee 5 USA $5,424,937 $7,118,382
Jason Mercier 6 USA $16,356,296 $2,001,750
Fedor Holz 9 GER $7,549,491 -
Davidi Kitai 10 BEL $6,757,706 $448,657
Dominik Nitsche 13 GER $5,164,231 $3,398,488
Dzmitry Urbanovich 16 POL $4,190,393 -
Mike McDonald 18 CAN $12,949,811 $2,940,067
Jonathan Duhamel 21 CAN $17,592,802
Thomas Marchese 24 USA $12,404,012
Benjamin Pollak 25 FRA $2,613,573 $327,067
Mustapha Kanit 31 ITA $5,497,875 $4,203,118
Sam Greenwood 33 CAN $2,798,230 $3,653,541
Igor Yaroshevskyy 34 UKR $1,695,666 -
Darren Elias 35 USA $3,505,319 $3,646,815
Jason Wheeler 36 USA $2,298,881 -
Brian Rast 38 USA $16,313,290
Dario Sammartino 39 ITA $3,251,024
Niall Farrell 41 SCO $1,939,694 $2,456,781
Vladimir Troyanovskiy 42 RUS $4,199,228 -
Scott Clements 44 USA $6,975,297 $3,717,126
Ankush Mandavia 45 USA $2,316,280 $2,773,923
Mike Leah 48 CAN $5,040,388 $2,762,255
Jared Jaffee 49 USA $2,730,423
Ismael Bojang 51 AUT $1,870,754 -
Hans Winzeler 53 USA $2,009,527 -
David Yan 57 NZL $1,580,140 $829,705
Shannon Shorr 59 USA $6,052,301 -
Michael Wang 66 USA $1,433,921 $1,001,503
Andrew Chen 67 CAN $4,652,583 $1,993,787
Mohsin Charania 71 USA $4,724,869 -
Jeremy Ausmus 75 USA $4,788,806 -
Sylvain Loosli 76 FRA $4,857,533 -
Samuel Chartier 77 CAN $2,455,530
Jeff Madsen 80 USA $5,147,837 -
Brian Yoon 81 USA $2,788,075 -
Scott Davies 86 USA $1,536,893 -
Nipun Java 87 IND $1,654,477
Justin Bonomo 88 USA $9,690,053
Vladimir Dobrovolskiy 90 RUS $803,830 -
Christian Harder 99 USA $3,616,452 $3,239,083
Kiryl Radzivonau 103 BLR $1,534,334 $868,103
Jonathan Little 106 USA $6,257,741 $1,053,162
Sorel Mizzi 110 CAN $11,148,823
Govert Metaal 115 NED $2,117,699 -
Andrey Pateychuk 116 RUS $2,873,717
Ben Yu 121 USA $1,582,932 $42,575
Matthew Glantz 133 USA $6,021,692 -
Igor Kurganov 137 RUS $10,218,893
Jussi Nevanlinna 140 FIN $1,843,978 -
Ricardo Alvarado 143 USA $434,651 -
Oliver Price 145 ENG $1,465,232 -
Upeshka De Silva 149 USA $1,010,803
Aaron Mermelstein 150 USA $1,326,382
Dylan Wilkerson 151 USA $1,791,157
Sam Stein 153 USA $4,601,497 $1,611,926
Jake Schwartz 154 USA $985,822 -
Erwann Pecheux 155 FRA $1,169,511 -
Allen Kessler 163 USA $3,229,616 -
Aleksandr Gofman 169 RUS $873,576 -
Justin Young 172 USA $3,651,893 -
Max Silver 175 USA $2,358,622
Alex Rocha 186 USA $763,079 -
Jose Carlos Garcia 189 POL $1,183,077 $1,973,897
Bertrand Grospellier 192 FRA $10,922,427
Jeffrey Gross 193 USA $2,450,671 $522,393
David Baker 197 USA $3,767,257 -
Christopher DeMaci 198 USA $2,026,257
Justin Liberto 204 USA $1,833,347 $147,690
George Danzer 205 GER $2,249,980 -
Rep Porter 206 USA $2,900,670
Dani Stern 210 USA $2,733,207 $1,763,804
David Vamplew 215 SCO $3,599,940 $1,970,537
Justin Oliver 216 USA $911,087 -
Raiden Kan 220 HKG $866,303 -
Javier Zarco 223 ESP $1,204,811
Chance Kornuth 228 USA $3,241,176 $1,762,732
Noah Bronstein 230 USA $526,940 -
Timothy Reilly 232 USA $821,795 $1,171,445
Christopher Tryba 235 USA $1,655,716
Iliodoros Kamatakis 239 GRE $623,682
Walter Treccarichi 249 ITA $819,052 -
Thomas Butzhammer 250 GER $1,124,432 -
Tobias Peters 256 NED $851,826
Chris Hunichen 264 USA $1,201,785 $8,136,397
Iaron Lightbourne 266 ENG $1,208,280 -
Benjamin Keeline 268 USA $562,337 -
Leo Wolpert 272 USA $1,631,600 $992,529
Martin Jacobson 273 SWE $15,045,724 -
Matthew Salsberg 277 CAN $1,948,129
Joseph Ebanks 278 USA $3,107,576 -
John Holley 279 USA $1,391,384
Scott Baumstein 281 USA $1,477,398
David Paredes 309 USA $2,270,126
Felix Bleiker 291 SWI $545,508
Michael Laake 293 USA $704,645 -
Diogo Cardoso 294 POR $532,175 -
Joseph Couden 295 USA $1,090,210 -
Jordan Cristos 297 USA $613,355 $1,064,411
David Tuthill 300 ENG $1,448,234 -
Seth Berger 301 USA $1,005,125
Jonathan Karamalikis 304 AUS $2,567,014 $5,812,977
Isaac Baron 305 USA $5,364,815 -
Anton Wigg 306 SWE $1,995,352 $6,178,797
Kitty Kuo 308 TAI $1,091,426
Noah Schwartz 316 USA $5,264,152 $780,358
Eugene Katchalov 317 UKR $8,669,109
Yung Hwang 319 USA $1,731,468 -
Vanessa Selbst 321 USA $11,728,256
Ryan Van Sanford 323 USA $840,175 -
Chad Eveslage 325 USA $667,597 $3,304,103
Matthew Affleck 333 USA $1,782,928 -
Manig Loeser 337 GER $1,563,516
Darren Rabinowitz 340 USA $1,164,160 $87,935
Kelly Minkin 342 USA $779,519 -
Natasha Barbour 347 CAN $688,855 -
Christopher Klodnicki 353 USA $8,286,614
Rocco Palumbo 354 ITA $1,693,398 $3,373,454
Timothy Adams 355 CAN $2,546,978 $1,403,178
Iacopo Brandi 356 ITA $337,148 -
Xuan Liu 359 CAN $1,649,190
Mike Gorodinsky 361 USA $2,616,750 -
Konstantin Puchkov 362 RUS $2,364,898 -
Jake Cody 363 ENG $4,132,822 $697,494
Dong Guo 372 CHN $554,374 -
Daniel Weinman 373 USA $1,211,132 -
Thiago Nishijima 374 BRA $1,784,213
Bryan Paris 380 USA $705,804
Nick Pupillo 381 USA $635,441
Justin Schwartz 384 USA $1,123,924 $3,042
Jason Les 403 USA $1,029,967 -
Antonio Buonanno 405 ITA $2,345,771 -
Adam Owen 408 UK $305,147
Andrea Dato 409 ITA $1,719,798
Samuel Panzica 411 USA $731,845
Emil Patel 427 USA $670,937 -
Pieter de Korver 432 NED $4,075,231
Antonio Esfandiari 434 USA $26,495,567 -
Alexander Ivarsson 438 SWE $391,513
Ben Winsor 450 ENG $622,568
Jesse Sylvia 451 USA $5,987,767
Nikolay Fal 468 RUS $224,411 $635,168
Li-Ta Hsu 471 TPE $313,665 -
Esther Taylor-Brady 481 USA $556,610
Diwei Bryan Huang 486 SIN $854,703 $335,550
Alexandru Masek 492 USA $1,306,752 -
Joao Pires Simao 493 BRA $508,033 -
James Rann 494 ENG $550,886 $221,883
Ray Henson 517 USA $2,019,553
Anthony Gregg 522 USA $10,476,457 -
Jared Griener 533 USA $383,117 -
Maxx Coleman 534 USA $1,201,594
Daniel Strelitz 538 USA $1,038,680 $1,412,310
Jonas Lauck 540 GER $1,137,266 $733,646
Valentin Vornicu 558 ROM $482,454 $178,360
Shawn Buchanan 566 CAN $5,902,874
Dara O'Kearney 571 IRL $747,503 $1,884,206
Nicolau Villa-Lobos 573 BRA $1,160,434
Jason Mo 589 USA $1,806,754
Phil Galfond 594 USA $2,339,619
Oleksandr Gnatenko 600 URK $574,052 $868,763
Felipe "Mojave" Ramos 606 BRA $969,051 $701,286
Sergey Lebedev 612 RUS $1,087,222 -
Kou Vang 616 USA $892,601 $82,883
Terry Fan 624 TAI $715,496
Jerry Wong 641 USA $1,299,996 -
Olov Jansson 645 SWE $153,367 -
Keith Lehr 649 USA $2,736,773
Cate Hall 651 USA $420,675
Kenneth Aldridge 656 USA $1,280,877 $30,538
Fabrizio Gonzalez Cataldi 660 ARG $1,175,430
Dmitry Vitkind 672 RUS $1,290,923 $628,228
Jason Helder 703 USA $1,717,441
James Collopy 713 USA $1,251,342
David Nowling 720 USA $184,692
Matthew Schultz 733 USA $406,720 $584
Gianluca Escobar 747 ITA $243,329 $923,354
Aaron Overton 748 USA $678,478 -
William Foxen 757 USA $183,920 $552,446
Brian Benhamou 762 FRA $616,564 -
Jonathan Roy 765 CAN $2,087,523
Peter Eichhardt 769 SWE $820,570 -
Carlos Chadha 785 USA $471,832
Chris Moorman 793 ENG $4,107,768 $12,963,272
Guillaume Diaz 795 FRA $372,351 -
Weiyi Zhang 823 CHN $253,446
Andrey Kotelnikov 834 RUS $200,126 -
Phong 'Turbo' Nguyen 836 USA $980,570 -
Romain Lewis 847 FRA $216,455 -
William Reynolds 871 USA $1,808,446 $1,698,059
Muhamet Perati 875 ALB $416,232
Clyde Tjauw For 885 NED $517,335 -
Fatima Moreira de Melo 891 NED $440,228
Gregory Marcus 906 USA $329,253 -
Mark Radoja 908 CAN $1,906,952
Dylan Hortin 915 USA $651,514 -
Phillip Mcallister 944 ENG $540,467 $2,052,592
Joe Tehan 955 USA $4,287,302 -
Guy Taylor 961 ENG $136,769 $337,208
Luis Ferreira 972 BRA $456,789
Petr Jelinek 987 CZE $343,023

I have no bone in this and Holdem X/GPL will likely have no impact on my life one way or the other.

Alex has any website paid you any money over the past year?
If the answer is yes then this league will be slanted to their benefit and not necessarily to the benefit of players/poker.

If no one has paid you anything then I admire your courage and wish you the best of luck.

Why is thhere no Holdemx for this competition? I think just a few games of it would suit the GPL very good

Sorry if you already covered this, but do the drafted players negotiate a salary with the owners the way a sports draftee does? Is it a set salary for all, or does the number one pick make more than the number 6 pick?

Thanks.

can't remember where i read it (could be poker fuse), but imo it was $100/hr plus expenses if the player has to travel. then shares of marketing (e.g. if a team sells shirts or whatever) as well as the potential championship money ($100k ????).

Brian Hastings conspicuous by his absence from the draft list.

So who are the most notable names missing?

No WSOP 2015 Main Event Champ.

You can read the GPL contract for that info - http://www.globalpokerleague.com/wp-...Jan25-2016.pdf

Joe McKeehen tweeted earlier this week he had looked over the contract and decided to pass.

The number of people who are draft eligible is certainly well above expectations.