Leaderboards - a waste of web space, right?
Million dollar payout to Leaderboard winner!!
I’ve always considered online poker room leaderboards a waste of web space - right up until I started climbing the ranks on a couple of them.
It’s taken a while, but now I check how I’m going daily - and I’ve got to confess that I go out of my way to play enough poker to at least retain my ranking! It’s a good challenge and it definately adds some discipline (goals?) to my otherwise eclectic poker play.
Most poker room leaderboards are just about the brag factor. A couple of them factor in some exclusive freerolls with fairly juicy prizes as monthly incentives but the stand-out card room leaderboard belongs to bet365poker.
These guys have really got it right. This top Microgaming Prima Poker site offers weekly, monthly and annual prizes across both Cash Game Leaderboards and a Tournaments Leaderboard.
You can even get sponsored by bet365 to play in all WPT and EPT events during 2008 that bet365poker host satellites to (ie heaps)! In addition they’ll send you to take part in a WSOP Boot Camp just to improve your chances of representing them well (and lining your own pocket of course). It’s not just Leaderboard winners they fuss over either. All 2nd to 10th place finishers win a seat to an online final leading directly to an EPT or WPT event.
bet365 have just paid out $1,000,000 to the winner of their inaugural Leaderboard Challenge (a guy called Captain Canary, who is no doubt feeling fairly golden and chirpy about now!)
16 players battled it out at bet365poker for the winner-takes-all $1,000,000 pot on offer. After close to 4 hours of play, Stephen Widdett of Norwich, Norfolk, playing under the alias “CaptnCanary” eventually saw off all the competition from around the world to win.
Stephen qualified as the annual winner of $2.50 - $4.99 league and has been ‘Mr Consistent’ on his favoured NL game on $2/$4 tables as he had also won the monthly league for November and had already had numerous wins on the weekly Leaderboard. Now a professional player, he has been an active bet365poker player since January 2005.
Your turn next year? I’m certainly going to have a dig at it!
>>Visit Bet365 here (sorry, no US residents)
>>Read a comprehensive review of bet365poker here
>>Compare bet365poker to the other 3 top UK/Euro poker rooms here
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