.: contest rules

1. Captains will be chosen based on the top players according to P5's PLB scores.
2. Every player must have a Pocket Fives (www.pocketfives.com) account in order to give Captains a fair choice for the draft. If you are not signed up, you will be dropped from the contest and your money will be returned.
3. All players will be drafted into teams of 5-6 players (depending on number of entrants). This will be done live on Skype with a time/date to be determined. Captains will be notified at least 48 hours prior.
4. Scores will be calculated using PokerStars TLB system. Here is the link to the calculator everyone will use: http://twodimes.net/poker/stars/
5. Top 10 scores will count per player for the Team score. You may post more than 10 scores, but only your Top 10 will count. Therefore after you have 10 scores, please post only scores that are greater than your 10th best score.
6. ***The lowest team member's score will be dropped from the team total. This is to make sure no teams are handicapped due to low volume or personal/site problems (DNS*, etc.).
   
7. All sites are included. Live MTTs will not count.
8. All SNGs/MTTs 45man and above count. No prizepool minimum. All buyins do count.
9. SNGs with less than 40 players, satellite tournaments, heads-up tournaments, shootout tournaments, restricted-entry tournaments, private tournaments, play money tournaments and VIP Freerolls do not count.
10. All scores count for SNGs/MTTs that START at/after 12:00am Stars time on March 1st and START at/before 11:59pm on March 31st.
11. It is each players responsibility to post their own scores. For PokerStars it is easy, just post the email they send you. For all other sites, you must input your scores into the calculator below and post them along with the Tournament ID for your SNG/MTT. If I do not receive a Tournament ID this month I will not count the score.
12. If you are going to copy and paste PokerStars email, please be sure to get the TLB score pasted. IF THERE IS NO TLB SCORE IN YOUR POST, IT WILL NOT COUNT.
13. For Bounty/Knockout MTTs do not worry about subtracting the Bounty/KO portion from the buyin when calculating. Just use the buyin minus the rake like a normal MTT. Example: $10+$1 Knockout - Enter $10 into the calculator for the buyin.
14. Rebuy MTTs are different. This will be even different from what the emails PokerStars sends you. We are trying this to give the players more points for rebuys. Here is how you should input them into the calculator. Total prizepool/Total # of players = The buyin you will put into the calculator. For example:

PokerStars Tournament #77206463, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
927 players
Total Prize Pool: $20970.00
Tournament started - 2008/02/17 - 19:15:00 (ET)

Dear emyouexwhy,

You finished the tournament in 41st place. A $62.91 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 95.61 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tour.../leader-board/

Congratulations! Thank you for participating.

Total Prize Pool: $20970.00 / 927 players = 22.62 = 23 (will be put into Buyin Field in calculator) - New TLB Total: 112.52

• $20 for Team Competition
• $5 for Individual Competition ($2 will go toward the top overall finishers. $3 will go toward each draft round's top finishers)
• $2 fee
  

• 1st place Team - $560
• 2nd place Team - $240
  

• 1st Overall - $55
• 2nd Overall - $25

• 1st Individual draft round - $24