2016: The Year of Team Poker 2016: The Year of Team Poker
Key Takeaways
  • Team-based poker has become a trend in 2016.
  • A look at the history of team-based poker suggests that it has never managed to overcome the individual nature of poker to attract a wide audience.
  • However, technological and social change may mean that 2016 will indeed be the year of the team.

The theme of the team has become more and more widespread over the last year or so in both live and online poker. The news that ecommerce behemoth Alibaba will be promoting Match Poker in Asia, and the beginning of the first season of the Global Poker League (GPL) show that big bets have been placed on the success of team-based poker, but will they be successful?