Ending up on league leaderboards

I was wondering about some of the people that end up on various league leaderboards that are run by PS, and the best way to end up on those leaderboards. I suppose the simple answer is, to play well and to keep winning tournaments!

It has been mentioned in our threads here about playing the Open Skill League and Premier Skill League that it is possible to play aggressively early and secure a couple of double ups, then simply sit out until there are 1,000 players left which is when points start being awarded. Then start playing again, by which time you will have a relatively small stack and will need to start playing aggressively again to try to build your stack back up.

I play quite often in the Women's Poker League, and I was quite interested to read a PS Blog about some of the people that are on their leaderboards.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/pokers...-w-088252.html

Now I have encountered quite a few of these players, and none of them have stats which suggest TAG, LAG or tournament leaderboard standard of player to me (cue the standard jokes about women being bad poker players). The electrically charged lady shows at 26/14/5 with 33% flop cbet. The Yukon lady has a PFR of 6% but will raise with K6s from EP and then show her cards, trying to convince people that she's loose/fishy. Or she'll limp with KQ UTG and then shove when somebody raises her. Still a very large gap between her VP and PFR stats. Then there's a lady with a VP of 86% who seems to do quite well out of limping in virtually every hand, then c-betting postflop.

So what tricks do you know to improve your leaderboard standings?

Good question, I have had some experience with PS leader boards. See link here (http://www.cardschat.com/f46/stars-micro-mania-leaderboard-update-189153/)which I had to play 4 tourneys a night for 32 days. I won it, I will always say the secret is survival, You dont have to win every tourney but you do need to place well.
And this is so different to the normal tourney where your mindset is to win and cash big.
I joined the PS open leagues this month and tried the open league...sorry but its a free roll nightmare, so i played the Premier qualifiers instead and am comfortably in the top 200 to qualify for next month.
I had no idea how much money PS was giving for this league , I am impressed $5,000 for first WOW, so I will try this for a coule of months.
MY Stragedy Play ABC Poker and Push with your Premium hands early.Do not call any all ins unless you have top 3/4 hands.
You will get donked out, thats the nature of Poker tonight my aces lost to J/4 suited it happens
Good luck
I am generally running around 18/9 here.

The guys tend to have a new thread each month about the Premier League:

http://www.cardschat.com/f46/pso-pre...thread-202738/ (http://www.cardschat.com/f46/pso-premier-league-november-thread-202738/)

I finished 5th this time, but don't final table often enough to be on the WPL leaderboard.

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Well each month is a new month so there fore don't we need a new Thread? As for the O.P question, I can't really say much in the PM league since when I was in it, I usually did make the top of the L.B there but always fall off due to "TILT"...As for the Open League though, It's different IMO, and much easier to make the 1st place in this league...I wont comment on it at the moment cuz I'm still working out a few kinks in my theory for the Open League TBH But will say that your right about the Double up part and then sitting out

Maybe I should have worded it differently, so I'll try again. Here is a link for this month's thread, but as they do a new thread each month you might have to search for this month's thread yourself if you're reading this after November 2011.

http://www.cardschat.com/f46/pso-pre...thread-202738/ (http://www.cardschat.com/f46/pso-premier-league-november-thread-202738/)

Happy now?

Congratulations

There are actually some good players in that Women's League on PokerStars (I know cuz I've seen some of them while railing the Sun.Wom.$10Kguar. while my partner was playing in it). Some of the same names from the daily tournaments.

How does one do well on a Leaderboard? Prolly by making the best decisions at any & every given point throughout every tournament they play in. (freeroll leaderboards or that PSO league might be somewhat different as I believe there's some value in it to finish in Top-xxx place... somewhat similiar to playing a satellite. I could be wrong though).

MTT stats. will be different from cash game to a degree.. ie. VP & PFR will have a slightly larger gap than typical in cash game. Take a look at VPIP/PFR/AF of some of the top MTT players.

Some of the people at the top of that leaderboard do things like calling an AIPF in the early stages of the tournament with A5s. Maybe they're working on an all-or-nothing basis...

Here's an example in the early stages of the tournament, when we are all supposed to be playing tight, at least according to the books on tournament poker that I have read.

Poker Stars - $0.10+0.00 Tournament (#465771062) - Blinds: 10/20 No Limit Hold'em (8 players)
Poker Stars Hand Converter Tool from CardsChat.com

SB: t1,480
BB: t1,652
UTG: t1,190
UTG+1: t1,460
MP: t1,690
MP+1: t1,618
CO Hero: t1,470
BTN: t1,450

Pre-flop: (t30) Hero is CO and dealt
UTG calls t20, UTG+1 folds, MP calls t20, MP+1 calls t20, Hero calls t20, BTN calls t20, SB calls t10, BB checks

Flop: (t140) (7 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG bets t40, 2 folds, Hero calls t40, BTN raises to t1,430 (All-in), 2 folds, UTG calls t1,130 (All-in), Hero calls t1,390

Turn: (t4,170) (3 players)

River: (t4,170) (3 players)

Final Pot: t4,170

Showdown:

Hero shows (ace-high flush)

BTN shows (a pair of aces)

UTG shows (two pair, aces and deuces)

Outcome: Hero wins t520
Outcome: Hero wins t3,650