Absolute Poker - Poker League - Fall 2006

Overall Standings

• Wednesday, October 4
• Sunday, October 8
• Wednesday, October 11
• Sunday, October 15
• Wednesday, October 18
• Sunday, October 22
• Wednesday, October 25
• Sunday, October 29

Venue: Absolute Poker

Weekly Buy-in: $5 + .50

Pre-requisites: Signup for a PSO account and have a real money Absolute Poker account. Players are not required to have signed up for Absolute Poker through PSO, nor are they required to have done any PSO promotions.

How to Register: You must register for the PSO Poker League ONCE before your first poker league game via your "My PSO" account area.  Simply go to "My PSO" and select "Poker League" from the left menu.  Enter your Absolute Poker account information and submit the form.  Your name will be on the list of eligible players, which will be submitted to Absolute Poker the day before each tournament.  Please register on PSO only once.

Remember, however, that you then must register via the Absolute Poker software before each tournament starts.  Enter the tournament lobby and register.  The tournament entry fee will be deducted from your Absolute Poker account.  As with any online poker tournament, you can unregister from the Absolute Poker tournament lobby at any time before the tournament starts and your entry fee will be refunded.

Payout Structure: Standard Absolute Poker tournament payout

Individual Event Prizes: PSO Points will be awarded to the Top 3 finishers in each event:

• 1st Place -- 25,000 PSO Points
• 2nd Place -- 17,500 PSO Points
• 3rd Place -- 10,000 PSO Points

PSO Points will be added to the players’ accounts within 5 business days of the event.

Event Scoring: Players will be awarded league points based on a formula that will take into account both order of finish and the number of entrants in the specific event.  Thus, finishing first in a larger tournament will earn more points than finishing first in a smaller tournament.

League Standings: Tournament scores will be totaled for each player and standings will be posted on the PSO website. To determine the league champion, each player’s Top Five finishes will count. Players are not required to participate all eight events, but to be eligible for the Overall Prizes, players must participate in at least five tournaments.

Grand Prize: At the conclusion of the league, the player with the highest point total will be awarded the Grand Prize, 140,000 PSO Points ($1,400), plus a buy-in to Absolute Poker’s bi-weekly $100K Guaranteed Tournament ($200 + $16).

Runners-Up: Second through fifth place overall finishers will also receive PSO Points prizes, as follows:

• 2nd Place – 80,000 PSO Points
• 3rd Place – 50,000 PSO Points
• 4th Place – 30,000 PSO Points
• 5th Place – 20,000 PSO Points

Bonus Prizes:  But wait, there’s more!  The following bonus prizes will be awarded each tournament: 

• Knock out a member of the PSO staff – 2,000 PSO Points
• Knock out one of the players in the top three of the overall standings – 2,500 PSO Points
• One of the three randomly chosen winners – 5,000 PSO Points

PSO staff are not guaranteed to play in every event, but chances are, there will usually be at least two or three in a given tournament.  Look out each week for current event information in the League Forum – PSO staff's Absolute screen names will be listed there.

Through five events, anyone who has played in every tournament will qualify as one of the top three overall players.  Once the league has reached event six and beyond, anyone who has played in five events will qualify.  These bounties will be announced in the current event information in the Forum, as well.  Like PSO staff, there is no guarantee the top three will play in the next tournament.  UPDATE (10/16, but in effect for 10/15 tourney): all players qualify for the top three bounties.

It will be up to the players to keep track of the bounties.  It is ultimately the responsibility of the bounty winner to let PSO know whom they eliminated, but we do ask that those with bounties on their heads also try to pay attention to who knocks them out and let us know, as well.  An official bounty thread will be posted in the League Forum for the bounties and bounty winners to announce who eliminated whom.

The random prizes will simply be awarded based on three randomly generated numbers after each tournament.  The players that finish in the place corresponding to the numbers will win the prizes.  Members of the PSO staff are not eligible for the random prizes.  If the randomly generated number corresponds to the place of someone from PSO, the prize will go to the next place down.  If that PSO staff member finished last, the prize will go to the next place up.

Those players who win a bounty or finish in the top three ARE eligible for the random prizes.

• If a player registers for a tournament, but does not play, that tournament will not count toward the required five for the Grand Prize.
• Any player who is deemed to have exhibited poor sportsmanship, which includes, but is not limited to, abusive language or taunting, excessive stalling, or discussing an active hand, will be disqualified from winning PSO prizes for that tournament and will not have the tournament count toward the required five for the Overall Prizes.
• Cheating is strictly prohibited. PSO reserves the right to ban any players from this or any future PSO-sponsored events if they are found to have cheated. Any prizes won may be forfeited, at PSO’s discretion.
• All decisions by PSO are final.