This page addresses questions concerning the Recent Scores console in your profile. Please visit ourPLB FAQ for questions about our PLB races.Point scores are calculated using the PocketFivesLeaderboard Formula. To calculate your own scores, you may use ourPLB Calculator.

Points for all tournament cashes (those used for recent scores, plb races, and the sliding leaderboard) are calculated using the PocketFives.com Leaderboard Formula. To calculate your own scores, you may use our PLB Calculator.

Why did my recent scores disappear from my profile, or why aren't they there at all?

There may be several reasons why your recent scores are not displayed in your profile:

– If you change, add, or remove poker site names in your profile, your scores are temporarily removed to account for the changes you have made. Your scores will reappear in your profile and recent scores pages when the next results sweep occurs (typically several times a day), so if you changed your profile and see your scores have disappeared, relax, they will appear later in the day!
– If your screen names on various sites have not been entered, were entered incorrectly, or have not been verified (no gray check mark beside the name), your scores can not be attached to your PocketFives profile. If there is a mistake with one of your site names (or if it hasn't yet been entered), simply update your profile to correct any mistakes, and your scores will appear the following day. If your names are unverified, please contact rankings@fivesmail.com.
– Some poker sites are not tracked by PocketFives.com, and some tournaments on those sites are also not tracked. For a full listing of tracking requirements, please see Why is a specific tournament not listed as a result in my profile? below.

Why is a specific tournament not listed as a result in my profile?

There may be several possible reasons why a result would not be listed in your profile:
– The tournament had fewer than 100 entrants.
– The tournament had a prizepool less than $1,000.
– The tournament had a buy-in of less than $1.
– The tournament occurred less than five (5) days ago. It takes up to five days after a tournament completes for it to be displayed on PocketFives.com.
– The tournament was not a scheduled tournament. 180-man SNGs on Stars, for instance, are not tracked. The only exception is 180-man SNGs on Full Tilt, which are included in our feed.
– The tournament was a satellite tournament or a freeroll. Only non-satellite tournaments with a real money buy-in are tracked by PocketFives.com.
– The tournament occurred more than one year ago. Though the tournament may have been tracked, for server efficiency, we only list a year's worth of results on recent scores pages.

Which sites are being tracked for PocketFives.com rankings?

We are currently only tracking the following sites for the rankings. We will be adding more sites in the near future. Tournaments from the following sites that also satisfy the above criteria will be included in the leaderboard:

– Absolute Poker (started tracking on 6/1/2007)
– Bodog (started tracking on 7/12/2006)
– Full Tilt (started tracking on 7/12/2006)
– PartyPoker (started tracking on 7/12/2006)
– PokerStars (started tracking on 7/12/2006)
– UltimateBet (started tracking on 7/12/2006)
– PokerRoom *Ongame Network (started tracking on 12/10/2007)
– TitanPoker * iPoker Network (started tracking on 06/16/2008)
– Doyle's Room * Cake Poker Network (started tracking on 06/15/2008, stopped tracking on 01/24/2009) We were tracking the Microgaming which is what Doyles Room was on. DoylesRoom has since moved to the Cake Network which we are currently not tracking. We are in the process of working directly with the Cake Network to start tracking those scores once again in the near future.

I have a score that meets the criteria, how do I get that entered and when will it appear?

If your result meets all of the above criteria and is still not listed or you are not sure if it does, please email your username and the missing tournament information (include the site on which it occurred, date, buyin, and place) to rankings@fivesmail.com, and we will attempt to resolve the problem.

If the score was in fact missing, we will manually enter the score as soon as possible and send you an email response. This score will then appear in your profile the following day, our parsers run at 2 PM and 2 AM CT daily, and will be bound to your profile at 3 AM CT or at the next rankings update, whichever occurs first.

How often are my recent scores updated?

Scores shown in your profile are updated once a day in the middle of the night (typically around 3 AM U.S. Central Time). Each tournament score, however, is imported after a varying length of time for every site. Please wait up to 5 days for each room to see if your recent scores have been updated.

The fact that your PokerStars scores from yesterday are listed does not mean that your UB or AP scores from the same day should be listed as well.

If I just created an account, what tournaments will appear? Do you go back and find past scores?

When your results are added to your profile after creating an account or after editing the screen names in your profile, all tournaments we have tracked in the last year will be included.

Will my old scores count if I change site names in my profile or will I lose results? Can I use two names for one site?

We do not allow our users to have results from two different names from the same site or network. Scores will only count from one screen name per site, per player. You should choose whichever site name you want to count going forward. If you'd like to change the site name in your profile, you can do that, but only scores from whichever name you currently have listed will count for your PLB total.

If you are forced to change names on a site for whatever reason, one thing that may give you comfort in losing your old scores is that old point values drop off over time based on how our Sliding PLB works.

Why aren't my multi-table SNG results listed?

We do not currently have the ability to track multi-table SNG's and the like, so we only track scheduled tournaments. The only exception is for 180-man sit-n-go's on Full Tilt, which are included in the feed we receive.

Are satellite tournaments tracked?

No. Satellite wins do not count for the player rankings.

Why can't I find my location in the country/region/city dropdown lists?

You must enter your full location in your profile in order to be included in our rankings by country, state/region, and city. Many of the smaller cities and towns, however, are not listed in our system. If you fall into this category, we generally recommend that you name the nearest city to you that is listed.

What are the Sortable Rankings and how are they calculated?

The Sortable Rankings are rankings by location, age group, and other factors, and they are calculated using the Sliding PLB. Sortable rankings simply filter the sliding leaderboard to include only members of a certain state, country, city, age group, or other criteria. You can also create sortable lists for Monthly and Yearly PLBs.

There is also a console on the front page where you can choose what country or region for which you'd like to see rankings when you come to the site. The console defaults to showing rankings from your own country or state (based on the location listed in your profile or IP address), but you can change this setting based on your own personal preferences by going to our Sortable Rankings Page.

What determines the PocketFives.com World Wide Rankings?

The PocketFives.com World Wide Rankings are an attempt to accurately rank online tournament players. Every Wednesday afternoon, rankings are updated automatically. The Rankings are based on three factors, each of which has equal weight:

1) Recent Results – PocketFives.com tracks tournament results for members who have listed the appropriate screen names in their profiles. These results are used to compile a Sliding PocketFives.com Leaderboard (PLB), the specifics of which (how points are accumulated and how they gradually drop off) are answered by How does the sliding leaderboard work?.

The rankings use collected results from the latest 12-month period, ending with the most recent Sunday. This means, for instance, that when the rankings are compiled on Wednesday 7/18/2007, the most recent results included are from the previous Sunday, 7/15/2007. The oldest results included are from 7/16/2006.

2) Opinions of their Peers – The PocketFives.com World Wide Rankings also uses a subjective portion in its formula. The purpose of this subjective portion is to reward long-term winning potential as defined by the best in the industry and to exalt players who have exhibited long term success. In addition to pure numbers, we believe that a good rankings system must reward aspects of the game that go unseen in the charts, and with numerous internet players voting in our Pro Poll, all of whom have extensive experience playing in the biggest online tournaments, we end up with a successful showing of which top internet players are most respected by their peers.

The pollers have the opportunity to rank the top internet players as they see fit, under the condition that the players they rank must all have achieved a top-200 score in the current sliding PLB. Pollers also have the option to rank as many or as few of those top 200 as they please. Any players that a poller does not rank will be relegated to their corresponding sliding PLB order, such that each poll has 200 ranked players even if the poller in question chose to rank a smaller number.

The pro pollers have criteria on which to rank players, and those criteria state that this is not simply a ranking based on "skill." Instead, an individual pro poller's rankings should model a longer-term version of the sliding PLB. That is to say that the pro poll reflects top players' views on which players have been the most successful in the past and also which players are most likely to continue that success.

Pro Pollers who don't update their rankings for a month straight forfeit their poll count until further updates occur. This rule encourages pro poll participation and keeps collective pro poll averages from remaining overly stale.

3) Previous Ranking – In order to prevent players from sliding up and down the rankings too fast based on a hot or cold streak, the final portion of the World Wide Rankings is based on the player's ranking the previous week. If a player wasn't ranked the previous week, their previous ranking is 101 for the purpose of this system (in accordance with the 100 players that are ranked on a weekly basis). All unranked players therefore have an equal chance of entering the rankings on any given week.

Who votes in the Pro Poll?

A large number of successful online tournament players vote in the pro poll. We strongly encourage you to let us know at rankings@fivesmail.com if you believe you or someone you know should be voting in this poll. We receive numerous requests from individuals that are interested in participating, and we take steps to ensure that each person receives apt consideration. PocketFives.com holds sole discretion over which individuals are allowed to vote in this poll.

If my account on a certain site (i.e. Full Tilt) becomes inaccessible at some point or has been compromised, can I acquire points using another name on that site?

Typically, the answer is no, but there are exceptions. If you've been the victim of a hacking incident and are forced to play on a different account for a short time, you may let us know ahead of time via email (rankings@fivesmail.com), and we can manually add cashes from that time into your rankings profile. We will need to know specifically what the cause of the issue is, as well as how long you will be playing on a different name. Except in extreme situations, we will not allow scores from multiple names on the same site to count for the rankings.

Why is my PLB score for a specific tournament off by a fraction of a point or does not add up to what I see in my recent scores page?

If you have a recent win posted in your account, sometimes it will take a day or so for your overall PLB points to update and include the recent win(s).

Sometimes, cashes in a tournament will be listed in whole dollar amounts, omitting the cents that were paid out by the site on which the tournament was played. This rounding may result in a small difference between the score you calculate in our PLB calculator and the score you receive in the recent scores section of your profile, but will never affect any score by more than half a point of what you'll determine in our PLB Calculator.

Why is the PLB score in my profile different than the one on the rankings and PLB standings pages?

When the rankings and PLB standings pages are updated, they grab information up through the previous Sunday (in the case of the rankings) and up through the previous two days (in the case of the monthly, yearly, and sliding PLBs). Scores in your profile and scores on your recent scores page are updated nearly twice a day every day. As such, since leaderboard pages are not updated on the same schedule as profile pages, there is sometimes a discrepancy between the two, particularly if someone has had scores in the last few days that qualify for the PLB.