By
Adam |
Published
Nov 18 2006, 06:08 PM
Earlier this month, PocketFives released the Monthly PLB console on the front page, which resets at the beginning of each month and tracks each member's top 20 scores (max of 12 scores per poker site) in the current month.
To make these races more exciting, we're adding some honey to the pot. For starters, the November and December winners will play a heads up freeroll for $1k in January. The winner of that heads up match will be able to defend their title the following month against the next Monthly PLB champion in another $1k heads up freeroll, and it will continue like this each month. That means that the January PLB champion could potentially still be playing heads up matches in August, assuming they beat the new monthly champion every month in between.
We will officially announce the winner on the 7th of the following month, so that we can make sure that all applicable PLB points are properly tallied. If the defending heads up champion is also the newest Monthly PLB Champion, they will play a PocketFives admin for the prize.
TLB races on several sites have been highly publicized in the past, and we're hoping that the PocketFives Monthly PLB race will become a staple of the online community as well. Good luck to everyone in contention for the November race; we're looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
For more information about the PocketFives Leaderboard (PLB), click here.
I was one of the original P5ers... Before this site existed, my friends Cal, Riley, and I were poker enthusiasts/railbirds who played primarily low stakes cash games and tournaments. We were all fresh off graduating from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, loved poker, and wanted to become a part of the poker world.
For years I managed the rankings system on this site and all of the content you would see on the front page. I now am mostly removed from the day-to-day operations of the site and am primarily focused on our company's rakeback business (including the rakeback section of PocketFives). I still take a very active interest in the site, and you'll often see me responding to threads in the forums on topics ranging from how to play AK out of position to what I think is the next legislative step regarding online poker in the US.
I live in Escazu, Costa Rica about 5 minutes from our company's office. I primarily play live poker now, but you can still occasionally find me at the online tables, primarily as cassowv on Full Tilt or AdamP5s on Bodog. If you see me around the forums or at the tables, be sure to say hi and tell me how I played my hand wrong ;)