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A player participating in a C.P.T. tournament will have the opportunity to accumulate points in all of our sanctioned events. The distribution of points will be spread more evenly to create a more competitive playing field in competition for the overall C.P.T. point’s leader championship. The more even distribution is to give incentive to players to compete or play in as many events as possible in an effort to accumulate more overall points. This points system is different than a traditional money prize breakdown as the point’s distribution or interval between each placing is even, unlike the very top heavy formula used in distributing cash prizes, with the top three places taking home 75% of the prize money.

The C.P.T. has designed this system so that multiple final table finishers can compete with the winner of a large field, large buy-in event even though they have not won as much money in the end. The multiple final table finishers would have obviously used a great amount of skill in exhibiting such consistency and should be rewarded for their overall play and results. With that said the C.P.T. points system will take into consideration the amount of the buy-in, number of players competing and subsequent place finished in the money, to get a point value for that tournament. The final placing in the money is based on the assumption that a traditional prize distribution will be awarded to the top 10% of the field, which is important for consistency of C.P.T. events and the points system.

The formula for calculating the final points is to multiply the buy-in point level (ex. 10 points for a small buy-in of $100) by the final place finish (ex. 1st out of 100 players and 10 places paid) to arrive at a final point total of 100 points . The final place finishes will be inverted with the number of places paid to reward the higher place finishes. Example: When 100 players participate and 10 places will be paid the following inversion will reward first with the proper points ratio. Figure 1 shows two examples of basic finishing point’s inversion.

The amount of the buy-in will divided into five categories to provide greater rewards for larger buy-in events. (Figure 2)

The final example is a chart to highlight the basic distribution of points for a variety of tournament scenarios. (Figure 3)

The top 25 points leaders that have not already qualified will receive an invitation to play in the CPT Invitational Finals - Jan 20-22. This televised event will be held at the Ocean World Casino in the Dominican Republic as part of the World Poker Showdown series of events.