Leaderboard: leaderboards and prizes for players

Leaderboard is the club’s leaderboards: player rankings for a period with prizes for the best. It’s one of the most effective ways to get players to play more, and to play with you: there’s competition, a goal for the week and a reason to come back to the table.

There are two kinds — tournament leaderboards (Tournament tab) and cash game leaderboards (Ring Game tab). For a tournament one you set the period, tournament type (MTT or SNG), games and buy-in range. A cash leaderboard adds the key setting — the point criterion: points for winnings, hands played or rake — plus Happy Hour and a blind range. Cash leaderboards can also include AoF tables — AFH (Hold’em) and AFO (Omaha).

The key is choosing the right criterion. Points for Winnings reward whoever got lucky and scare off weaker players. Points for Hands or Rake reward activity — not only strong players can earn them, and that’s usually better for the club. For a small club, a weekly leaderboard with several prize places works well.

Award prizes on time and openly: announce the winners and say so in the chat. Results can be exported in the Leaderboard Result report in Club Data. If a prize is late, trust in the next leaderboards drops immediately.

Where it is

• Club lobby → red menu button → Admin → Leaderboard.

The Leaderboard screen

• 1 — Tournament: tournament leaderboards.
• 2 — Ring Game: cash game leaderboards.
• 3 — Records: past leaderboards.
• 4 — Create Tournament Leaderboard: create a new leaderboard.
• 5 — Template: templates — saved settings so you don’t fill in the form every time. Until you have leaderboards, it says “There is no leaderboard list”.

Tournament leaderboard settings

• 6 — Title: the name players will see, e.g. “Tournaments of the week”.
• 7 — Leaderboard Period: start and end (date and time). Defaults to 24 hours.
• 8 — Tournament Type: all tournaments, MTT only or SNG only.
• 9 — Game Type: all games or specific ones — NLH, 6+, PLO, PLO5, PLO6 and the Hi-Lo Omaha variants.
• 10 — Buy-in: the range of tournament buy-ins that count (0.10 to 1 in the screenshot).
• 11 — Save Template: save the settings as a template.
• 12 — Create: create the leaderboard.

Prizes (Reward)

• 13 — Add 1 Rank / Add 5 Rank: add one or five prize places at once.
• 14 — prize table: place (Rank), prize type (Reward Type) and amount (Reward). The cross removes a place, the bin removes all.
• 15 — Total Reward: the total prize pool — in Diamonds and in chips separately.

Prize type (Reward Type)

• 16 — Chips — club chips; Membership; Merchandise — goods or another non-game prize you hand out yourself.
• 17 — Confirm: select.

Cash game leaderboard: points and Happy Hour

• Ring Game tab, same Create a Leaderboard screen: title and period work as in the tournament one.
• 18 — Point Criteria: what earns points — Winnings, Hands played or Rake. Below is the rate: how much winnings, hands or rake give how many points.
• 19 — Happy Hour: hours with special point earning; times are in the club’s time zone (UTC −6 here, see Time Zone). Details are in the ⓘ hint.
• 20 — Game Type: which games count.

AoF tables and stakes

• 21 — AFH and AFO: AoF (All-in or Fold) tables — Hold’em and Omaha. They can be included separately from regular games.
• 22 — Blinds: the range of stakes that count (0.01/0.02 to 1/2 in the screenshot). Prizes, Save Template and Create work as in the tournament leaderboard.