Hey Pokerspacers!
The Pokerspace Online Championships (or the PSOC, as it is more popularly known) is an exclusive Pokerspace competition where members can test their skills in a variety of poker games for huge PS Point prizes, and to be crowned PSOC Champions!
The PSOC consists of 10 Championship Events, including the NL Holdem Main Event, where players play in a variety of games to win huge PS Point prizes, and the honour of being the Chamionship Winner. Each Championship event is a variation of poker game.
To get into these events there are two methods. The first method is to buy into the events directly. The regular Championship events cost 1000 PS Points to buy into directly, and the Main event costs 5000 PS Points to buy in directly. You must have accounts at the poker rooms where those events are taking place, but you do not need to have your account linked/tracked to Pokerspace to participate or get paid out your PS point winnings.
The second method to get into the Championship events or Main Event is to qualify through one of the weekly event qualifiers, which take place in the months leaing up to the Championship events. These events cost 50-500 PS Points to join, and entries are paid out depending on how many people join the event. Thus, for the qualifier to pay out 1 entry, 11 people (paying 100 PS Points each including the rake) must join the event. For 2 entries to be paid, 22 people must join the event. The remainder of points are paid out to the following player if there are no enough points to make an entry.
The payout structure of the Championship and Main events are structured the same way as the qualifiers. The more people that join the event, the more places will be paid.
At the end of the Pokerspace Online Championships we will be crowning the PSOC Player of the Year award to the PS'er that finishing at the top of the PSOC POY standings. The scoring is the same as the Indy league scoring system with a few tweaks. For each championship event last place gets 1 point, second last gets 2, and first gets points equal to the # of players. However, any player that finishes in the money will get DOUBLE the points. For example, if there are 100 players in a event and top 20 get paid. First gets 200, 2nd gets 198, 20th gets 160, 21st only gets 79, 22nd gets 78, etc. Therefore, the PSOP POY will likely be the one that cashes in the most championship events.
Prizes will be given out to the Top 10 players in the PSOC POY standings. The PS Player of the Year will receive the PSOC POY accolade (most exclusive accolade on PS), one-on-one interview with a Pokerspace writer AND free buy-ins to EVERY championship event in the following PSOC! Second through tenth in the PSOC POY standings will receive a Top 10 POY accolade, one-on-one interviews with a Pokerspace writer AND a free buy-in to the next PSOP Main Event!
If you ever have any questions post them in the appropriate section of the Pokerspace Forum.
Good luck everyone!
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