€130,000 MTT Leader boards

Starting January 1 and continuing until July 2010 Classic Poker will be hosting monthly MTT Leader boards with a combined prize pool of €130,000 including sending the winner of the leader board final tournament to WSOP 2010.

Every month the top 50 players on the MTT leader board will be awarded a total of €20,000 in cash prizes on top of their Multi Table Tournament winnings. On top of this the top 5 players every month are automatically entered into the grand final where a maximum of 30 players battle it out for a seat to the WSOP 2010 taking place in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel in the period July 5 to July 17 2010. Grab your chance to win some extra cash participating in our MTT tournaments and score points toward the leader board which could end up giving you the shot for fame and glory at WSOP 2010.

Prize Pool Structure

Position	Prize
1st	€ 5,000.00
2nd	€ 2,500.00
3rd	€ 1,500.00
4th	€ 1,250.00
5th	€ 1,000.00
6th	€ 750.00
7th	€ 550.00
8th	€ 400.00
9th	€ 300.00
10th	€ 250.00
11th to 20th	€ 200.00
21st to 30th	€ 175.00
31st to 40th	€ 150.00
41st to 50th	€ 125.00

Players with interest in the point scoring algorithm can see the one used by Classic Poker below.

Points = 10*[sqrt(n/k)] * [0.5+0.5*Ln(b)]

N = Number of Players
K = Position
P = Buy-in

All Classic Poker MTT tournaments count towards the leader board rankings except the following tournaments:

Satellite tournaments
Freeroll poker tournaments
Private tournaments
Heads up tournaments
FPP tournaments

Check back here for daily leader board updates from January 2, 2010.

Terms & Conditions

The Promoter of the €130,000 MTT Leader board promotion is Classic Poker
The promotions will be a monthly recurring event starting at 00:00GMT on the 1st of each month and concluding with the last tournament to start before 23:59GMT of the last day of the month.
The leader boards start on January 1st 2010 and conclude on June 30th 2010.
All winners will receive their allocated prizes as stated in the relevant payout tables within 72 hours of the close of each promotion.
All winning accounts are subject to standard Fraud and Security checks to ensure compliance with Promotional and General Network T&Cs. Any accounts found to be in breach of Fraud or Network rules will be locked and disqualified from the promotions
All points will be awarded according to the algorithm as outlined under “POINTS SCORING”.
All leader boards will be updated daily and posted on a relevant website for customer viewing at the earliest opportunity each day.
All qualifying tournaments will be noted in the “Tournament Info” page of the sub-lobby, however all partner / affiliate specific tournaments, freerolls and satellite tournaments are NOT eligible for points’ allocation in this promotion.

Any of the following tournament types will not be included in the Leader boards.

Satellites
Freerolls
Private tournaments
Heads up tournaments
FPP tournaments
Affiliate Tournaments

The date of the WSOP winners’ qualifier will be published during June 2010.

The top 5 players from each leader board will be contacted with due notice as to the date/time of the event.
All seats in this tournament are non transferable and do not have a cash alternative.
Poker Managers reserve the right to adjudicate or amend any result as they see fit.
Classic Poker reserve the right to use customers Nickname and/or first name and last initial for use in reasonable amount of marketing and/or future promotions.
Any players found to be “soft playing” or “team playing” in qualifying tournaments in order to enable a player to further his position will be disqualified and all accounts will be suspended.
Any abuse of the chat facility during qualifying tournaments will result in disqualification and account suspension.
Classic Poker reserve the right to withdraw or alter this promotion at any time or to refuse this offer to any player.
A total of €130,000 is available to be won in the “€130,000 MTT Leader board” promotion.
In the event of a service crash or a disruption, the promotion will continue throughout the assigned period, though in cases of prolonged downtime Classic Pokerreserve the right to change dates or extend the promotion. Classic Poker will be the sole arbiter as to whether the promotion will be rerun.
Classic Poker reserves the right to refuse this offer to any player or to withdraw this / or part of this offer / promotion at any time. The Promoter cannot be held responsible for any disconnections as per the general rules of the Classic Poker service. If the game is disrupted by system or network issues Classic Poker reserves the right to resolve the issue as it sees fit.
No director, employee, consultant or agent of Classic Poker or any of its group of companies or its suppliers, vendors or white label partners is eligible to participate in any of the above promotions directly or indirectly, nor is any supplier or vendor. This restriction also applies to relatives of such persons and for this purpose ‘relative’ includes, but is not limited to, any of a spouse, partner, parent, child or sibling.