Tribeca leaderboard

In the absence of anything more interesting taking my fancy, I'd just like to share my witterings concerning the tribeca leaderboard.

Put simply, it is a joke! Many of the top players at the site do not feature near the top simply becuase of its bizarre scoring system. The scoring heavily favours final table spots, with buyin, no of runners and prizepool much less important.

As a result the top of the leaderboard tends to be a collection of those players who regularly play the 2 table tournaments as these are the easiest way to build up points.

Let me give u an example.....

You play in the 15k grtd, a 27$ rebuy with 250-300 runners or so. You play very well, make the final table and finish 3rd to net 1.5k or so. Not 100% certain that amount is correct due to recent strange changes in the prize structure. Anyway a great performance and a nice payday.

This earns you 37 leaderboard points. OK.

Now you play a 6$ 2 table tournament. You win it and haul the mighty 50$ prize your way. Well played, but obviously nowhere as big an achievment as 3rd in the 15k.

So, you get 10 points or so? Maybe less?

36!!!!!!!

YES THIRTY SIX!

This is ridiculously biased, with the result that the upper echelons of tribecca's leaderboard is replete with the kippers swimming around the 2 table comps.

Yet there are some rewards to finishing well in the tribecca leaderboard.

Top 54 every week and u get in a 1k freeroll. 20$ roughly, fair enough
Top 99 every month and u get in 5k freeroll. 50$ roughly, nice one.
Top 99 for year. Freeroll with 3 x 12k$ packages. 360$ roughly. COOL.
Top 500 for year. 25k Freeroll. 50$ roughly. Nice one.

Plus the top 3 every week and month get some sort of benefit. Buyins to the 36 rbuy on sunday i think.

http://www.vcpoker.com/tournaments/aboutleader.htm

this is the link.

Anyway i fancy getting into the 36k freeroll for the top 99 over the year. Sadly i havent played enough 2 tables to be anywhere near the top so i decided to do an experiment.

I was sitting in 240th and decided to see if i could make top 100 by the end of the year, primarliy on a diet of 2 table tournaments. After 2 weeks of playing i have climbed 70 places to 170. I don't feel like my results have been particularly impressive either but good enough to rocket me up. I now have december to make up the last 70 places so ill be putting some time into the 2 table comps and see what happens.

I'll keep you abreast of developments and the news of further horrifying developments at tribecca ...! (This one will shock you)

To Be Continued...........