It took just over eight months, with more than 170 regular season matches culminating in an eight-team playoff, but the Global Poker League has at last crowned its first season's champion. After winning the Americas Conference title, the Montreal Nationals defeated the Eurasia Conference-winning Berlin Bears in a tight match yesterday, winning six games to five in the best-of-11 final.
As always in these GPL matches involving some of the game's best tournament players, there was a lot of interesting strategy to consider along the way. One intriguing hand from last night occurred during the fifth game of the series pitting Jason Lavallee of the Nationals against Brian Rast of the Bears.