Betfair Triple Crown Month 3

Do you see yourself as a jack of all trades at the poker table? If so, then it’s time to stake your claim to the Betfair Triple Crown!

Over the next six months we’ll be challenging your poker skills in three different disciplines – sit-and-gos, cash games and multi-table tournaments – with $1,500 of prize money up for grabs in each playing period.

If you do well in all three disciplines over the six months you’ll also be in with a shot of finishing on the Triple Crown leaderboard and taking down a share of an additional $3,000!

What’s more, the competition is only open to PokerPlayer and PokerPlayer.co.uk readers, giving you a great chance of winning some cash. If you’ve ever been involved in a Betfair promotion in PokerPlayer before you will automatically be entered into the Triple Crown promotion. But if you haven’t, don’t worry – go to www.triplecrown.betfair.com and follow the instructions to opt-in.

How Does It Work?

You earn points towards each monthly leaderboard simply by playing the type of poker specified below within the designated dates. The first period will focus on sit-and-gos and there is no restriction on the minimum or maximum stakes, but it must be real money tables. Go to www.triplecrown.betfair.com for the full scoring system.

Playing Periods

Month 1: Dec 4-17 (SNGs)
Month 2: Jan 8-21 (Cash)
Month 3: Feb 5-18 (MTTs)
Month 4: Mar 5-18 (SNGs)
Month 5: Apr 9-22 (Cash)
Month 6: Apr 30-May 13 (MTTs)

You can start earning points at 
0.01am on each of the starting 
days until 11.59pm on the finishing 
day of each session.

The Prizes

Each month $1,500 will be shared out among the top ten players for that month’s playing period, with the following payout structure:

1st $500
2nd $350
3rd $250
4th $175
5th $100
6th $50
7th $30
8th $20
9th $15
10th $10

In addition, at the end of the six playing periods $3,000 will also be awarded to the top ten players on the overall Triple Crown leaderboard.

To be in the running for the Triple Crown you need to consistently finish in the top 20 of each playing period with points awarded as follows: 1st, 80pts; 2nd, 64pts; 3rd, 48pts; 4th, 40pts; 5th, 32pts; 6th, 24pts; 7th, 16pts; 8th, 8pts; 9th, 4pts; 10th, 2pts; 11th-20th, 1pt.

For information on the prize breakdown for the Triple Crown go to www.triplecrown.betfair.com.

The Leaderboard

 Month 1: SNG leaderboard
           
    1. gnasher8          $500
    2. tankdahl           $350
    3. jinzo                 $250
    4. nuts1                $175
    5. chipfire227         $100
    6. sharky123          $50
    7. Hugeplums         $30
    8. Doobs                $20
    9. oberfuhrer9        $15
    10. petersfield        $10

    Triple Crown leaderboard (after one month)
   
    1. gnasher8        80
     2. tankdahl         64
    3. jinzo               48
    4. nuts1              40
    5. chipfire227       32
    6. sharky123        24
    7. Hugeplums       16
    8. Doobs                8
    9. oberfuhrer9         4
    10. petersfield         2

Congratulations to gnasher8, who cruised to first place in the first month of sit-and-gos. He also goes top of the Triple Crown leaderboard with 80 points, but there’s a long way to go with five more months of competition left to tally. We’ll have the cash leaderboard next month where we should see some different names in the money and the overall leaderboard will start to take shape. Remember, it only takes one big month to see your name shoot up the Triple Crown leaderboard.