BUSY TUESDAY UP AHEAD...

Three events are expected to reach completion Tuesday at the WSOP. These will be the first three events to count towards the player rankings.

Featured will be the 50K Players Championship Event, which is the third Grand Slam Event on the 2010 PTPR schedule.

The event has officially reached the money (which in turn means that we're now officially handing out PTPR points for this Grand Slam Event) ... Andy Bloch was the first of the final 16 to bow out ... the Final 15 include: John Juanda, the brothers Mizrachi (Grinder and Robert), the Takeover Nick Schulman, Daniel Alaei and Alex Kostritsyn.

Tune in tomorrow night for the first three PTPR points reports.

PTPR POINT DISTRIBUTION

FIND OUT HOW PTPR POINTS ARE DISTRIBUTED TO DETERMINE WHO DOMINATES THE POKER CIRCUIT!


GRAND SLAM EVENTS
There are four Grand Slam Events...

1. World Series of Poker Main Event
2. World Series of Poker 50K Players Championship
3. European Poker Tour (EPT) Tour Championship
4. World Poker Tour (WPT) Tour Championship

The top 27 players receive points in these events. Points are distributed as follows: 1st-150, 2nd-90, 3rd-75, 4th-65, 5th-60, 6th-55, 7th-50, 8th-45, 9th-35, 10th-25, 11th-20, 12/13/14th-18, 15/16/17th-15, 18/19/20th-12, 21/22/23rd-8, 24/25/26/27th-5



PREMIER EVENTS
The following events qualify as Premier Events...

- All other WSOP Events (excludes Ladies' and Seniors' events)
- All EPT Tour Main Events
- All WPT Tour Main Events (excludes WPT Bucharest)
- All NAPT Tour Main Events
- WSOP Europe Main Event
- NBC National Heads up Poker Championship
- Aussie Millions Main Event

The top 18 players receive points in these events. Points are distributed as follows: 1st-125, 2nd-75, 3rd-45, 4th-35, 5th-30, 6/7th-25, 8/11th-10, 12/15th-8, 16/18th-5



TIER 3 EVENTS
The following events qualify as Tier 3 Events...

- All tournaments with a minimum of a 1 million dollar purse
- AND/OR all tournaments with a minimum 5K buy-in
- WSOP Ladies' and Seniors' Events
- WPT Bucharest Main Event

The top 9 players receive points in these events. Points are distributed as follows: 1st-100, 2nd-60, 3rd-35, 4th-25, 5th-18, 6th-10, 7th-8, 8/9th-5



PRELIM EVENTS
The following events qualify as Prelim Events...

- All preliminary events all PTPR PREMIER EVENTS with a minimum 1K buy-in AND a minimum 250K purse

The top 9 players receive points in these events. Points are distributed as follows: 1st-75, 2nd-40, 3rd-25, 4th-15, 5th-10, 6th-8, 7/8/9th-5



CHALLENGER EVENTS
The following events qualify as Challenger Events...

- All tournaments with a minimum 1K buy-in AND a minimum 250K purse

The top 5 players receive points in these events. Points are distributed as follows: 1st-35, 2nd-18, 3rd-10, 4th-8, 5th-5



IMPORTANT NOTES

- Players must be "IN THE MONEY" in order to qualify for points

- Events must have a minimum of 50 participants in order to have points count towards player rankings



BONUS STRUCTURE

- Bonus points will be determined by dividing the total number of players in a tournament by 100

- Bonus points awarded for 100+ player fields

- A maximum of 20 bonus points can be awarded

- No bonus points awarded for Prelim/Challenger events

JUST IN TIME FOR THE WSOP, THE POKER TOURNAMENT PLAYER RANKINGS BLOG IS ON LINE!

PTPR NOW ON LINE!

Looking to find out who the best tournament player is on the poker circuit? Look no furhter!

The Poker Tournament Player Rankings base their rankings on a modified version of the ATP Tennis Tour Player Rankings.

The ATP Tennis Tour ranks it's tournaments into different point categories, and so do we. We have spent years working on what we believe is the best one out there!