The Global Poker Tournament Union (GPTU) was founded in 2019, is an international sports union created by the organizers of the world's leading poker tournaments. It dedicated to developed the standardization of tournament, the professionalization of the organization, the services industrialization of user-development for poker tournaments in the world. The Union is strongly committed to developed the digitalization for the entire industry, connect all the tournaments for cooperation in every angles and focus on how to enhancing the management ability for event organizers.The ultimate goal of the union is to achieve the overall development of the global poker industry, able to hosting the World-Class poker tournaments for players, and then creating a new era for poker world.

全球扑克赛事联盟（Global Poker Tournament Union，简称GPTU）成立于2019年，是一个由全球知名扑克赛事组织者共同创建的国际体育联盟。致力于推动全球扑克赛事的比赛标准化、从业人员的组织专业化和用户发展的服务产业化。联盟大力发展全行业的数字化，全面推广赛事的互联互通，重点增强组织者的管理能力。联盟的最终目标是实现全球扑克赛事整体大发展，举办世界扑克大赛，创造扑克世界新时代。

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the longest-running, largest, richest and most prestigious gaming event in the world, dating back 45 years to 1970, and having paid more than $1.6 billion in total prize money to date. In 2012, the WSOP featured 61 different poker events over 50 consecutive days.with the advent of the World Series of Poker Europe in 2007 and WSOP Asia-Pacific in 2013. ESPN is the exclusive U.S. telecast partner of the WSOP. WSOP programming airs in 84 countries on five continents and is available to ESPN is the exclusive U.S. telecast partner of the WSOP. WSOP programming airs in 84 countries on five continents and is available to 300 million households.

世界扑克系列赛（英文全称：World Series of Poker, 简称WSOP）是世界上历史最长、规模最大、奖金最多的扑克赛事，世界第七大体育赛事组织。可追溯到45年前，即1970年，到目前为止，累计投入超过20亿美元总奖金。2012年，世界扑克大赛已连续50多天发起61场不同的扑克赛，2004年凯撒集团取得了世界扑克系列赛的举办资格，这个赛事的参赛选手每年呈指数级增长。 随着2007年在欧洲和2013年在亚太发展，WSOP成功地拓展市场，将品牌国际化，世界扑克系列赛的团队在广播、数字媒体、企业赞助、社会媒体应有程序许可上成就了具有开创性意义的联盟，ESPN是美国独家转播WSOP的电视广播合作伙伴，这个赛事在5大洲的84个国家的近3亿个家庭播放。

IFP (International Federation of Poker). Founded in April 2009 in Lausanne, Switzerland, is a not-for-profit organization that aims to remain the same: to promote poker and its match variation as a mind sport, without any discrimination as to race, sex, creed, or disability; Currently it has more than 50 national poker federations across five continents . The first “ The Table” tournament , held in the town hall in London on November 19, 2012, and 130 of the best player in the world in attendance with invitation format. And Bonuses totaling $500,000, the first 9 players will be rewarded and champion bonus of $250,000. “The Table” 2013 is openning for players from all over the world. IFP's goal is to build this event as one of the most influential poker tournament, and become the most memorable intellectual games tournament, starting a plan with global members of poker player (team) in the world rankings, Providing to IFP member nations and partners official tournaments to qualify for major events , All the players represent their nation on a global sporting platform and prove how skillful they really are, show the new nations team spirit and IFP brand new digital technology for the World Championship or Nations Cups.

国际扑克联合会（英文全称：International Federation of Poker, 简称IFP）成立于2009年4月，总部设在瑞士洛桑，是与其他主流运动联盟标准相同的非营利组织，国际智力运动联盟（IMSA）观察会员，其目标宗旨是推动扑克向没有性别、教条差异的智力运动发展，目前已有50多个国家联盟成员。第一届“The Table”锦标赛是邀请赛制，于2012年11月19日在伦敦市政大厅中举办，世界上130位最优秀的牌手列席参赛。比赛形式为常规德州扑克锦标赛，奖金共计50万美元，前9名选手受到奖励，冠军奖金为25万美元。2013年的“The Table”比赛将向全世界牌手开放。IPF的目标是将这一比赛打造成最具影响力的扑克赛事之一，并成为最难忘的智运会赛事。并将全球会员计划，并对扑克运动员（队）进行世界排名，崭新的扑克团队赛，注重技巧，经各国家杯资格赛选拔参加总决赛。

The poker experience for women is as diverse as there are different cultures in the world. Poker is a game which can be played by any human who has an interest, and excellence can be achieved no matter your gender, social class, ethnicity or religion. It’s a game… a wonderful game. It’s a lot like chess. It only takes a few minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master. Then why are we even having a conversation about women in poker? Because women make up less than 20% of the overall player field globally and the Women’s Poker Association (WPA) would like to change it. WPA is a global membership-based, all-volunteer, non- profit professional organization formed by women poker players to promote, develop, and professionalize the advancement of women in poker. We seek to heighten the exposure of current women poker players while encouraging and developing new women players.

世界繁花绽放多姿多彩，而女性沉浸在扑克运动中的体验，则千娇百态各不相同。而扑克也具有如女性般的包容特质，去拥抱不同性别和肤色，接纳不同阶级和宗教，及所有热爱这项运动的人。它不仅是一项棋牌运动，更是一项美妙的普世运动。如国际象棋一般，让你几分钟就能上手，却要你穷尽一生，去探究牌桌中的真理。那为什么我们要谈及女性选手对扑克的意义？因为据数据统计，女性选手在全球扑克运动总人口中只占20%，我们想改变现状对此做些努力，由此Women’s Poker Association（女子扑克协会）应运而生。WPA是一个由女性选手组成的全球性，自愿的，非盈利性的会员制机构，旨在女性同胞中推崇扑克运动，促进发展女性选手的扑克素养，提升女性选手在运动中的曝光度，得以最终提高女性选手在扑克运动的地位，同时吸引及鼓励更多的新时代女性加入进来。

The Global Poker Index (GPI) is a leaderboard index that ranks over 450,000 live tournaments poker players in the world. The GPI poker rankings are updated on a weekly basis. Players’ performances are assessed by their finishing positions in poker tournaments occurring over six periods of six months (3 years). The Global Poker Index uses data from the biggest poker database The Hendon Mob, known for collecting results of tournaments around the world and for being the reference in tournament results. They currently host results for over 325,000 poker tournaments. The index is used in famous newspapers along with sports results to communicate poker rankings, both on the online and print version.

全球扑克指数是一项排行榜指数，对全球超过45万名现场锦标赛扑克玩家进行排名。GPI扑克排名每周更新一次。玩家的表现是根据他们在为期六个月的六个阶段的扑克锦标赛中的最终排名来评估的。全球扑克指数使用来自最大的扑克数据库Hendon Mob的数据，该数据库以收集世界各地的锦标赛结果和作为锦标赛结果的参考而闻名。