2009 Tournament Schedule:

The top 1200 players will be broken up into 3 exciting levels:

Gold Level is the top 200 ranked players (1 – 200). This level will compete for a $500 prize pool and a chance to be declared the KING or QUEEN of the Club. The winner of the Gold Level will also receive club wide recognition along with a special tournament named after them in the proceeding month.

Silver Level is the next 400 ranked players (201 – 600). This level will compete for a $300 prize pool. The winner of the Silver Level will also receive club wide recognition along with a special tournament named after them in the proceeding month.

Bronze Level is the final 600 ranked players (601 – 1200). This level will compete for a $200 prize pool. The winner of the Bronze Level will also receive club wide recognition along with a special tournament named after them in the proceeding month.

Every month there will be new winners. Play hard, play smart, have fun and see your name atop one of our Leaderboards today. You could be the next Club champion.

Special Alert: Elimination Blackjack leaderboard competition is coming soon!

Want to know more about our leaderboard system, how it works and what qualifies? Click on the links below.

• Leaderboard Types
• Qualifying Tournaments
• The Formula
• Examples
• Poker Leaderboard Competition Payout Structure

LEADERBOARD TYPES

The club has three separate leaderboards:

• Poker Tournament Leaderboard
• Elimination Blackjack Tournament Leaderboard
• Overall Tournament Leaderboard

Currently only the “Poker Tournament Leaderboard” counts toward the “Poker Leaderboard Competition” described above. Club members will start with zero Tournament Leaderboard (TLB) points on the first day of each Weekly and Monthly Leaderboard.

Track the progress of your fellow Club Member’s placement on the Leaderboard by selecting the leaderboard links located in your “My Account” area of the game lobby.

QUALIFYING TOURNAMENTS

Not all tournaments will earn players Leaderboard Points! 

Tournaments that do count towards the leaderboard:
All  regular cash and merchandise tournaments  (Daily $1,000 and the month-end $20,000 for example) 
Tournaments that do not count towards the leaderboard:

• All Satellites and Super Satellites
• Freeroll Points tournaments
• Tournaments that do not pay out Tournament Points
• Play chip tournaments
• Sit and go tournaments
• $10 Open tournaments

The basic rule of thumb is: if it awards Tournament Points, and you used Tournament Points to enter, then it will award Leaderboard Points.

THE FORMULA

The Tournament Leaderboard (TLB) points a player receives for each qualifying tournament are based on three factors:

• Tournament buyin (in TPs),
• The number of players in the tournament, and
• Finishing position in the tournament 

The TLB points a player receives are a simple product of the three factors:
Tournament Leaderboard Points = {Buyin Factor} X {Players Factor} X {Finish Factor}
Buyin Factor
The first factor is based on the buy in amount of the tournament.
The Buyin Factors are as follows:

Player Factor
The second factor in the equation is based on the number of players in the tournament.  To determine which factor to use, look at the number of players in the tournament and find the corresponding number in the table below. 

Finish Factor
The last factor is based on the position the player finishes in a tournament. There are two different sets of Finish Factors, one for poker tournaments and one for Elimination Blackjack tournaments
Players will earn Leaderboard points for finishing “in the money”.  Being “in the money” for leaderboard purposes is simply winning Tournament Points. 

Players also lose a small number of TLB Points for not finishing “in the money”. (Don’t worry, though…your Leaderboard points balance can not fall below zero.)

EXAMPLES

Poker Tournament
A poker tournament with a 20-TP buyin has 540 players. 
The Buyin Factor is 1.0

The Players Factor is 15.

The Finish Factor for the winner is 4.50.

Tournament Leader Board (TLB) Points = {Buyin Factor} X {Players Factor} X {Finish Factor}
Finishing 1st  in this example earns 67.50 TLB Points.
67.50 = 1 x 15.0 x 4.50

The Finish Factor for finishing 31-200th  place is 0.25, so that player earns 3.75 TLB Points.
3.75 = 1 x 15.0 x 0.25

If the tournament awards Tournament Points for the top 200 places, then the Finish Factor for players who don’t win any Tournament Points (finishing between 201 and 540)  is -0.10, so those players each lose 1.50 TLB Points.
-1.50 = 1 x 15.0 x -0.10

Elimination Blackjack Tournament

An Elimination Blackjack tournament with a 100-TP buy-in has 75 players. 
 

The Buyin Factor is 1.0.

The Players Factor is 10.0.

The Finish Factor for the winner is 4.50.

Tournament Leaderboard (TLB) Points = {Buyin Factor} X {Players Factor} X {Finish Factor}
Finishing first in this example earns 45 TLB Points.
45 = 1 x 10.0 x 4.50

The Finish Factor for players eliminated in the Semi Final round,  is 0.25, so that player earns 2.5 TLB Points.
2.5 = 1 x 10.0 x 0.25

The Finish Factor for players eliminated before the Semi Final  is -0.10, so those players each lose 1 TLB Points.
-1 = 1 x 10.0 x -0.10

Poker Leaderboard Competition Payout Structure

Gold Level (1-200)

Silver Level (201-600)

Bronze Level (601-1200)