Leaderboard Champions Event

Competition – it’s a great way to show that you're among the best poker tournament players in the Club. Now our monthly poker leaderboard competition gives you the chance to rule supreme in the jungle. This month's poker leaderboard competition is held on March 10th at 9:30PM ET.

Do you have what it takes to be the best of the best? Test your real poker skills and find your way onto the leaderboard each month.

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

The top 1,200 players will be invited to play in a special event that will crown a champion for each level: Gold, Silver, Bronze. The competition will repeat every month on the following schedule.

Prize Pool Value: $500 (Gold)
Prize Pool Value: $300 (Silver)
Prize Pool Value: $200 (Bronze)

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The top 1,200 players will be broken up into 3 exciting levels:

Gold Level is the top 200 ranked players (1 through 200).

This level will compete for a $500 prize pool and a chance to be declared the KING or QUEEN of the Club.

Silver Level is the next 400 ranked players (201 through 600).

This level will compete for a $300 prize pool.

Bronze Level is the final 600 ranked players (601 through 1200).

This level will compete for a $200 prize pool.

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.

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.

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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 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.

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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:

Buyin	Factor
10 TP	1
20 TP	1
50 TP	1
75 TP	1
100 TP	1
200 TP	1
400 TP	1.25
500 TP	1.5
1000 TP	2
2000 TP	3

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.

Players	Factor
0 – 99	10
100 – 199	11.5
200 – 499	13.5
500 – 999	15
1,000 – 1,499	16
1,500 – 1,999	16.5
2,000 – 4,999	17
5,000 +	17.5

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.)

Poker Tournaments
Finish	Factor
1st	4.5
2nd	4
3rd	3.5
4th	3
5th	2.75
6th	2.5
7th	2.25
8th	2
9th	1.75
10th	1.5
11 – 20	1
21 – 30	0.5
30 – last paid place	0.25
Not In the Money	-0.1

Blackjack Tournaments
Finish	Factor
1st	4.5
2nd	4
3rd	3.5
4th	3
5th	2.75
6th	2.5
Quarter Final	0.5
Semi Final	0.25
Not In the Money	-0.1

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EXAMPLES

Poker Tournament

A poker tournament with a 20-TP buyin has 540 players.

The Buyin Factor is 1.0

Buyin	Factor
10 TP	1
20 TP	1
50 TP	1
100 TP	1
500 TP	1.5
1000 TP	2
2000 TP	3

The Players Factor is 15.

Players	Factor
0 – 99	10
100 – 199	11.5
200 – 499	13.5
500 – 999	15
1,000 – 1,499	16
1,500 – 1,999	16.5
2,000 – 4,999	17
5,000 +	17.5

The Finish Factor for the winner is 4.50.

Poker Tournaments
Finish	Factor
1st	4.5
2nd	4
3rd	3.5
4th	3
5th	2.75
6th	2.5
7th	2.25
8th	2
9th	1.75
10th	1.5
11 – 20	1
21 – 30	0.5
30 – last paid place	0.25
Not In the Money	-0.1

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.

Buyin	Factor
10 TP	1
20 TP	1
50 TP	1
100 TP	1
500 TP	1.5

The Players Factor is 10.0.

Players	Factor
0 – 99	10
100 – 199	11.5
200 – 499	13.5
500 – 999	15
1,000 – 1,499	16
1,500 – 1,999	16.5
2,000 – 4,999	17
5,000 +	17.5

The Finish Factor for the winner is 4.50.

Blackjack Tournaments
Finish	Factor
1st	4.5
2nd	4
3rd	3.5
4th	3
5th	2.75
6th	2.5
Quarter Final	0.5
Semi Final	0.25
Not In the Money	-0.1

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

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Poker Leaderboard Competition Payout Structure

Gold Level (1-200)

Standing	Cash Payout	TP Payout
1	$100	2000
2	$75	1900
3	$50	1800
4	$25	1700
5	$20	1600
6	$20	1500
7	$15	1400
8	$15	1300
9	$15	1200
10	$15	1100
11-20	$10	1000
21-30	$5	900
31-50		900

Silver Level (201-600)

Standing	Cash Payout	TP Payout
1	$75	1500
2	$50	1400
3	$35	1300
4	$25	1200
5	$20	1100
6	$20	1000
7	$15	900
8	$15	800
9	$10	700
10	$10	600
11-20	$5	500
21-30		500
31-50		400
51-60		300

Bronze Level (601-1200)

Standing	Cash Payout	TP Payout
1	$50	1000
2	$35	900
3	$30	800
4	$25	700
5	$20	600
6	$15	500
7	$10	400
8	$5	300
9	$5	200
10	$5	100
11-100		100

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