World Championship of Online Poker 2002

WCOOP Best All Around Player Award

In addition to the huge prize pools expected at the World Championship of Online Poker, we're giving away $10,000 in cash in the WCOOP's Best All Around Player Award!

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The Best All Around Player is determined through a points system which considers tournament buy-in, number of entrants, and of course, individual finish in that event. The top 20 finishers in each of the eight WCOOP events and top 16 finishers in the Heads-Up Limit Hold'em event will earn points towards the Best All Around Player award. $10,000 in cash will be given away to the top three Best All Around Players!

Prize Pool Breakdown

Place	Cash Prize
1st	5,000
2nd	3,000
3rd	2,000

The points for a given event are determined as follows. Players receive 100 Place Points (PP) for a first place finish, 95 points for a second place finish, and so on down to 5 points for a 20th place finish. The place points for each tournament are listed below.

These Place Points are next multiplied by an Entrant Factor (EF), which weights the number of entrants. For every entrant, the EF rises by 0.01, from a minimum of 0.50 to a maximum of 3.00. For example, a 35 player-player tournament will have an EF of 0.50, a 76-player tournament will have an EF of 0.76, a 120-player tournament will have an EF of 1.20, a 225-player tournament will have an EF of 2.25, and a 400-player tournament will have an EF of 3.00. Finally, this total is now multiplied by a Buy-In Factor (BF), which weights the buy-ins of the event.

Points Earned = Place Points x Entrant Factor x Buy-In Factor

Place	Points	Entrants	Factor	Buy-In	Factor
1	100	85	0.85	100	1.00
2	95	90	0.90	250	1.17
3	90	95	0.95	300	1.22
4	85	100	1.00	500	1.44
5	80	105	1.05	1000	2.00
6	75	110	1.10
7	70	115	1.15
8	65	120	1.20
9	60	125	1.25
10	55	130	1.30
11	50	140	1.40
12	45	150	1.50
13	40	175	1.75
14	35	200	2.00
15	30	250	2.50
16	25	300+	3.00
17	20
18	15
19	10
20	5

Note: For the $100+9 buy-in Heads-Up Limit Hold'em event, the number of entrants is equal to the number of players entering Stage I matches. Place points for this event are as follows:

Place	Points
1st	100
2nd	95
3rd	90
4th	85
5th - 8th	70
9th - 16th	50

How about an example? Let's suppose a player takes 6th place out of 275 entrants in the $300 buy-in No Limit Hold'em tournament.

Sixth place in a tournament gives this player 75 place points. With 275 entrants, this tournament has an entrant factor of 2.75. This tournament has a $300 buy-in, so the buy-in factor is 1.22. This player's points for this tournament are computed as follows:

Points Earned = Place Points x Entrant Factor x Buy-In Factor

= 75 x 2.75 x 1.22

= 252 points

Of course, the more tournaments you enter, the better your chance at winning $5,000 and the right to call yourself the Best All Around Player at the first-ever World Championship of Online Poker!