Like many other online poker rooms, UB Poker (Ultimate Bet) has a leaderboard for tournament players. This leaderboard allows players to accumulate points for their performance in tournaments over periods of time, and the people with the most points each week, month, and year are paid cash prizes. The UB leaderboard format is a popular way to put more money into the hands of poker players, much like rakeback or reload bonuses.
The UB Poker leaderboard is broken up into four separate categories. There is one category for all multi-table tournaments combined. The Diamond category is for sit-and-go tournaments with buy-ins of $6.50 and under. The Heart category is for sit-and-go tournaments with a buy-in between $6.51 and $25. Finally, the Spade category is for sit-and-go tournaments with a buy-in that’s $26 and higher.
To calculate the amount of UB leaderboard points a player gets for a busting out in a particular place in a tournament, divide the square root of the prize pool by your place to the two-fifth power. For example, if there was a $10,000 prize pool and a player came in fourth place, that player would receive about 57.435 leaderboard points.
There is one exception to this formula. In the Spade leaderboard category, all tournaments with a buy-in of over $50 is treated like a $50 buy-in for scoring. So if there was a $100 sit-and-go with six players, that would be considered to have a $300 prize pool instead of a $600 prize pool for the purposes of scoring.
For the MTT category, there is a monthly prize fund of $15000 distributed to 20 players, and a yearly prize fund of $116000 distributed to the top 100 players. The Diamond category has a weekly $1000 paid out to 50 players, the Heart category has a weekly $3000 paid out to 40 players, and the Spade category has a weekly $5000 paid out to 20 players. The sit-and-go categories are paid out according to the highest score over 20 consecutive sit-and-go tournaments. The monthly MTT awards are given based on a player’s top 20 tournament results, while the yearly MTT awards are based on a player’s top 100 tournament results.
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