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Online Poker Player of the Year Rules

The criteria for tournaments that count toward the Online Player of the Year standings follow:

Sites included

  • Absolute Poker
  • Bodog
  • Cake Poker
  • Full Tilt Poker
  • PokerStars
  • UltimateBet

Entrants

100 or more

Buy-in

$100 or more (for rebuys, the average buy-in per entrant is used)

Prize pool

$100,000 or more (prize packages such as tournament buy-ins or trips do not count as part of the prize pool)

Availability

No private or invitational events.

These three criteria govern points calculations:

  1. Amount of the buy-in
  2. Number of entrants
  3. Place finished within top 20. The final nine will receive a proportionate number of points based on each individual place. The 10th- to 20th-place finishers in each qualifying event will also receive points, with 10-18 receiving equal points and 19-20 also receiving equal points.

Note: Players receive points only if they are "in the money." If a tournament pays only five places, only the top five players get points. Players also may only receive points for one screen name per poker site (but may receive combined points for screen names across multiple sites). Players may request that one screen name be permanently "retired" from a site and a new screen name tracked if they permanently switch screen names. In this scenario, all stats from the retired screen name will remain associated with the account, as normal, but no further results from this screen name will ever be counted.

All requests for merges, retirings, headshot/avatar changes, or data corrections can be sent to OnlineZone@CardPlayer.com.

Total points are calculated by multiplying the point factors of the three criteria:

Place finished
First place receives 120 points
Second place, 100 points
Third place, 80 points
Fourth place, 60 points
Fifth place, 50 points
Sixth place, 40 points
Seventh place, 30 points
Eighth place, 20 points
Ninth place, 10 points
10th to 18th place, 6 points
19th to 20th place, 4 points

Buy-ins
$100-$199 = 1 point
$200-$499 = 2 points
$500-$999 = 3 points
$1,000-$1,999 = 4 points
$2,000+ = 5 points
The buy-in in rebuy tournaments is calculated by dividing the total gross prize pool by the number of entrants.

Number of entrants
100-499 = 1 point
500-999 = 2 points
1,000-1,499 = 3 points
1,500-2,499 = 4 points
2,500-4,999 entrants = 5 points
5,000+ entrants = 6 points

The maximum number of entrant points available for a tournament is 6.

Examples are: 57 players = 0 point, 101 players = 1 point, 650 players = 2 points, 1,170 players = 3 points, 1,801 players = 4 points, 2,768 players = 5 points, 8,565 players = 6 points.

Here is a hypothetical total point calculation example: You finished in eighth place in a $200 buy-in event that had 1,150 entrants. You receive 20 points for eighth place; the buy-in is $200, which is a 2-point event; and there are 1,150 entrants, which is good for 3 points. Thus, you receive 120 total points (20 x 2 x 3 = 120).

EMAIL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OPOY CONTEST TO: onlinezone@cardplayer.com.