17 Jun 10

Top 250 June: Cakara Dominating

Week 2 of our Top 250 and Top Ten Jackpot promotions is over and we see Cakara taking an impressive lead over his opponents, while last week's leader, karmolll, has dropped to the third place.

One more week of our Top 250 and Top Ten Jackpot promotion has passed, with

Cakara simply crushing the rankings in the previous week.

As you may already know, the Top Ten Jackpot promotion addresses the best 10 players from each community, as they are racing for $1,750 and the Jackpot built by all communities over a period of 3 months, from May to July.

Cakara managed to accumulate almost twice the amount of StrategyPoints compared to the runner-up: he has 16,942 points while

smidlo has 9,590 points so far.

In the overall standings, our leader is ranked 37th, which is quite a nice accomplishment - keep it up!

smidlo has also done quite well in our rankings, jumping 4 spots since last week.

Ranked third is last week's leader,

karmolll, who was simply unable to keep up with

Cakara, which reminds us of

opal99's domination over the last month's rankings.

Speaking of which,

opal99 is still in our Top 10, but only at the bottom. However, there still are two more weeks of play left, in which he can surely make a great comeback.

Here are the best 10 players after two weeks of play:

TOP 250 Promotion June TOP 10 English Community Ranking
Rank	Name	Strategy Points
1	Cakara	16,942
2	smidlo	9,590
3	karmolll	9,305
4	TerrorBlade	8,824
5	MaximumShark	7,724
6	Dippy19	7,549
7	Amirapuato	6,749
8	Vesolc	6,690
9	Wilenija	6,186
10	opal99	5,637

Between the 1st and the 31st of June 2009, our English community members will have the opportunity to show their skills and be rewarded with up to $500. The ten PokerStrategists who have accumulated the most points by the end of that period will get their share of the $1,750 prize pool.

TOP250 Promotion: overall ranking

Let's turn to the overall rankings, where we see

Caber taking back his #1 spot with 51,928 StrategyPoints, after vanishing from the Top 10 last week - quite an interesting comeback.

Because

Caber took this week's rankings by storm,

stronghawk had to settle for 2nd place, having 41,136 StrategyPoints. An old acquaintance to the Top 10,

F3rt is ranked 4th this week with 37,537 StrategyPoints, going up one spot since last time.

Below you can find the overall Top 10 June rankings at the end of the second week:

TOP 250 Promotion June TOP 10 International Ranking
Place	Name	StrategyPoints
1	Caber	51,928
2	stronghawk	41,136
3	XpillepalleX	41,092
4	F3rt	37,537
5	perpedes	34,874
6	Smileon	31,145
7	Blackk	29,014
8	FathSon	28,236
9	pkuboy	27,952
10	Shagg	26,859

Top ten jackpot Promotion: the prize pool

In June, the best 10 PokerStrategists from our community will play to get a share of the $1,750 prize pool.

In case one of our community members has managed to be both amongst the best 250 players of the TOP250 promotion and the Top Ten Jackpot promotion, he or she will receive the higher prize of the two. The lower prize will go into our international jackpot.

Below you can see the detailed payout structure for the Top Ten prize pool:

grab your share of the jackpot

The TOP Ten Jackpot Promotion will take place in all of our 14 communities and will be repeated also in June and July. The money which has gone into the jackpot in May, June and July will then be divided among the winners. The more players manage to finish within both the TOP 10 of their respective community and the overall TOP 250, the bigger the international jackpot will be.

Example: At the end of our Top Ten Jackpot promotion in March the jackpot was $6,800. If this amount will be collected as well in the months of May, June and July, the overall jackpot would be an astonishing $20,400!

After the end of the promotion we will have a lottery. Every member who has collected at least 3,000 StrategyPoints during one month qualifies for lottery tickets, no matter if he is in one of our TOP promotions or not.

Members who collect at least 3,000 StrategyPoints during one month will get one lottery ticket each, while members who collect at least 7,500 StrategyPoints during one month will get two lottery tickets each. Thereby, you will simultaneously reach the Platinum or Diamond status respectively.

Example: If you collect 3,000 SP in May, 7500 SP in June and 3000 SP in July you will get a total of 4 tickets for the lottery.

5 of the lottery ticket holders will get their share of the jackpot: 30% will go to number 1, 25% to number 2, 20% to number 3, 15% to number 4 and the remaining 10% to number 5.

Good luck everyone!

We would appreciate your feedback:

Feedback thread to the PokerStrategy.com Top Ten Jackpot Promotion

Information about the top 250 Ranking Updates

Due to problems on the side of the of the poker platforms there are sometimes be delays or gaps in our TOP 250 ranking updates. We always try to acquire the missing data as quickly as possible and will also make you aware of where the current gaps are.

In this case, the updates are as of 15.06.2009 and delayed are: Titan Poker, Cake Poker, Ladbrokes, InterPoker, 888.com Pacific Poker (as of 14.06), PokerStars (as of 13.06) and bwin (as of 09.06).

2009: $100,000 Promotion bonuses each month!

In this year as well, we will distribute at least $1,200,000 in bonuses within the TOP250 promotion alone. The top finisher of this month will, as usual, receive a $10,000 bonus. We wish all of our community members good luck and a successful June!

The current rankings can be found on the following link or by clicking on »Ranking« on the Home page:

Top 250 Promotion Ranking