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Poker Leagues

If you hold regular poker tournaments, you might want to award a prize or trophy to the annual "Champion". You might also want to keep track of who wins (and loses?) the most money throughout the year. Some players form clubs or poker leagues where players are awarded points for each tournament they play in, depending on how well they finish. This helps to compare play between different players who might not all be able to attend every tournament.

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Poker League Examples

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Buy a trophy for about $10 at a local trophy shop - you can usually get a trophy of a human hand holding five playing cards. When your tournament is almost over and it gets down to the final two players ... dump the purse money on to the table and place the trophy behind the huge stack of bills. Make a big production out it. I've never seen this done without players bursting out laughing! Let the winner take the trophy home until your next tournament. Visit my Poker Trophies page for more information.

Poker Tournament of Champions

The easiest way to hold a championship is to invite each tournament winner back for a "Tournament of Champions". If you hold a monthly tournament, you can invite the 11 monthly winners back at the end of the year for a one-table grand finale.

Top money winners

Another simple way to hold a yearly championship is to invite the top money winners back for a one-table or multi-table tournament. You can invite the top 10 money winners back for a one-table tourney, invite the top 20 money winners back for a two-table tourney, etc..

Poker clocks & league management software

Many Poker Clocks include software to help organize your poker league. Check out my Poker Clock Features page for a quick guide to which clocks offer this feature. Some poker clocks will even allow you to upload your player stats directly to a free website for all your players to view over the internet. You can also create your own discussion forum for your players to post 'remarks' about your games.

Poker league point systems

One of the easiest and most popular poker tournament points systems is to award one point for each player in the tournament. In a 20 player tournament, first place gets 20 points, second place gets 19 points, third place gets 18 points ... all the way down to last place who gets 1 point. The more players in the tournament, the more points the winners will be awarded. You could also award extra points for winning the tournament. You could award the top five players an extra 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 point.

Want a forum for your league?

Moderate your own poker league forum in the HPT Forums!

You might want to add special points for busting out players or making the final table. For instance, you might want to award 2 points to each player who eliminates another player or you might want to award 5 points for making the final table. If you find that the same players have a tendency to win each tournament, you can award each player an extra 2 points for eliminating any player who made the final table at the previous tournament. The points possibilities are endless and may be used to improve and/or bring excitement to your game! Check out the links below to see a multitude of different points systems.

Visit the HPT Forums Poker League Rules & Point Systems forum for more information on how to set up a poker league.

Start an online poker league

Tired of playing poor quality poker tournaments at the online sites? Start your own online poker league! Get your friends together and sign up at one of the online poker sites such as Poker Stars or Party Poker. You can then reserve tables so that only your league members can play. Get together online every Wednesday night after the WPT!

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Home poker leagues

Amateur Poker League
Brick House Poker
Cheesey Poker League
Dakota Poker League
Dallas Series of Poker
Dead Money Poker Club
Dead Poker Society
Fruit Loop Poker
Indy Poker League
Jersey Series of Poker
Jolly Joker OK
JupiterPoker.co.uk
Kingaroy High Rollers Poker Tour Australia
Learn-Texas-Holdem.com A couples poker league?
Louisville Poker Society
Lucky Dog Poker League San Diego
New England Poker League
North Jersey Poker League
Pittsburgh Poker League
Players Sports Group
Poker and Whiskey Nottingham (PAWN Club) Nottingham UK
Poway Poker Tour
San Diego Poker Club
Seacoast Poker Tour NH NEW
Taco's Poker Knights
Throttle Poker
Tulare Poker League
Ugly Tuna's Texas Holdem Challenge
Waring Poker Tour (Houston)
Wheeling Poker Club
Wolf Pack Poker League (see also PL Manager)
Wrexham Poker Society

Home poker game listings

List your home poker games or
poker leagues in the HPT Forums
Home Games & Poker Leagues forum

Bar & charity poker leagues

All Charity Poker
American Restaurant Poker League
Atlanta Poker Club
Free Poker Network
Lafayette Poker
National Poker League Australia
Seattle Poker Open
Tampa Metro Poker League
Vermont Poker League
White Water Poker Wisconsin
World Tavern Poker League

Feel free to Contact me if you have a poker league that might be added to this page. I do not add online poker leagues to this page.

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