Can you spell M-T-T? PokerStars gives you a chance to prove it
Apr 24, 2008By: PokerPeaker Can you spell Poker? Do you play more tournaments in a day online than Phil Hellmuth whines about in a year? Would you rather play a tournament than sleep, eat or breathe oxygen? Well, good, PokerStars is giving you a chance to stroke your ego a bit as well as win some pretty cool cash prizes. And the rest of us can play as well.
PokerStars offers you the chance to earn points for finishing high in Multi-Table Tournaments. The best thing about it is PokerStars gives you a chance to play on a leaderboard whether you're a casual player, a serious player or someone who probably actually needs to seek counseling for as much as they play (if you're earning enough points for the PokerStars Porsche in six months, that means you).
You can play for a week and compete for the Weekly Tournament Leader Board or play for a month or even a year and get on those leader boards as well.
All of them offer great prizes for your hard work.
The weekly board takes your best 10 results from all the tournaments played between 12 a.m. Sunday and 11:59 p.m. Saturday. The person who finishes first on the leaderboard gets a special opportunity: the chance to play a Team PokerStars pro in a heads-up match the following Sunday.
The prize stars at $1,000, and $1,000 is added until the leaderboard winner beats the PokerStars pro. Some pros include Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, who was 5-1 at the end of the month, Humberto Brenes and Tom McEvoy. All of them own World Series of Poker bracelets, and Raymer and McEvoy, of course, are world champions.
At least you get to pick the game you play against the pro.
You can view this week's in-progress rankings and last week's completed rankings through the PokerStars software. From the main PokerStars lobby, select 'Requests' followed by 'Tournament Leader Board'. You will have the option to view 'This Week' or 'Previous Week'.
Sit 'N' Go tournaments with less than 40 players, satellite tournaments and heads-up tournaments do not count, and neither do play money tournaments.
The monthly tournaments offer even more prizes. The boards take your best 20 results from all the tournaments played between 12 a.m. Eastern Time on the first day of the month and 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the last day of the month. The players who finish in the top 200 of the Monthly Leader Board will share $30,000 in cash prizes, with first place nabbing $5,000. The top 1,000 players get a ticket to a $20,000 monthly freeroll.
The best part about this is your good play will continue to get rewarded as the weeks and months go on. If you do well on the monthly leaderboard, the chances are you'll start to make some serious noise on the yearly leaderboard, and if you do, the prizes for finishing first, second or third on that are amazing.
But there's also plenty of time to start making that noise on the yearly leaderboard, as it only takes the results from your top 100 tournaments. You can play that many in a week, right? The winner of that leaderboard will receive a buy-in, hotel accommodations and spending money for five major PokerStars-sponsored live tournaments. Players who finish second and third will win the same packages for three and two tournaments respectively.
So get cracking. Just remember to breathe every once in a while.
