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How the league works
You can never lose by playing in the Quebec Poker Tournament League (LTPQ).
All the LTPQ tournaments are free. The only condition if you want to play in the tournaments organized in any of the LTPQ’s registered venues is to be 18 years old and have a league membership card. You can obtain a free membership card by registering online at www.ltpq.com
Optional Gestion Poker Tour’s scoring system will compile the registered members’ (players) points monthly and all the statistics will be available on the League’s website. Every month, the statistics will be reset and will restart at zero on the first of every month. However, a cumulative score, by stage and by season will always be available.
Quebec is divided in 125 districts. Each registered venue will be part of one district and will have to hold a minimum of one daily tournament per week.
The League will propose different tournaments and championships throughout the season:
- Daily tournaments
- Monthly tournaments
- District tournaments
- Stage tournaments
- Venue championship
- District championship
- Quebec Poker Championship
10% of the winners of each daily tournament will get a free pass to participate in the monthly tournament which will be held in each venue during the first week of the month. These persons must be registered member’s of the optional GPT’s scoring system.
A free pass will be given out randomly after the first break of every weekly tournament between all members. Only members who are present on the premises will be able to win this chance of participating to the next monthly tournament.
During the monthly tournament, a number of players, determined by a rule of participation (see below), will receive a free pass for the district tournament, held during the second week of the following month, in one of the district’s registered venue.
Number of free passes given out for the district tournaments, according to the monthly tournament participation rate:
- From 0 to 10 participants: 1 free pass
- 11 to 20 participants: 2 free passes
- 21 to 30 participants: 3 free passes
- And so on.
At the end of each month, the 3 best point scorers of each registered venue will also get a free pass to participate in the district tournament, held during the second week of the following month, in one of their district’s venue.
To recap:
Will represent their venue in their district tournament:
The 3 best point scorers and the winners of the monthly tournament (number of players determined by the scale above) for each registered venue.
10% of the winners of each district tournament will receive a free pass for the next stage tournament.
The season is divided in 4 stages of 3 months.
- October, November, December
- January, February, March
- April, May, June
- July, August, September
The month following each stage, the champions from each district tournament will be invited to this stage tournament.
At the end of each stage, the 25 best cumulative point scorers for this stage will receive a free pass to participate directly in this stage tournament.
The stage tournament will be of Freeze-Out style. The winners will receive a prize as well as a free pass for the Quebec Poker Championship.
The Quebec Poker Championship will be held at the end of the season, during a grand finale which will bring together the winners of each of the 4 stages.
The 25 best cumulative point scorers of the season will also receive a free pass to participate in the Quebec Poker Championship.
The 5 players who will have played the most tournaments during the last season will also receive a free pass to participate in the Quebec Poker Championship.
5 draws will be held at the end of the season between all members of the league who will have played a minimum of 100 tournaments during the last season. Each winner will receive a free pass to participate in the Quebec Poker Championship.
4 draws will be held at the end of the season between all members of the league who will have played a minimum of 1 tournament during the last season. Each winner will receive a free pass to participate in the Quebec Poker Championship.
1 draw will be held at the end of the season between all members of the league - no minimum number of tournaments required. The winner will receive a free pass to participate in the Quebec Poker Championship.
So that all the points won at each tournament are tallied and that the number of tournaments played be counted, the interested players will have to register, at a cost of $10.00 per year, to the optional GPT scoring system. The points and tournaments played will be tallied starting on the member’s registration date and will not be retroactive.
The role of the CPBBTQ is to ensure the control of each registered venue. The part of the AJTPQ will be, in addition to making sure that its members are satisfied, to make sure that during major events, the international rules are followed, this, in collaboration with Gestion Poker Tour.
At the start of every tournament, the players will be solicited for a voluntary contribution of $2.00 maximum, which will help pay for the administration of the tournament and league.
Of course, a player who doesn’t wish to register to the optional GPT scoring system and who doesn’t participate in the voluntary contribution will still be accepted at each registered venue’s tournaments and will still be eligible to win the daily prizes but will not be eligible to win the free passes to monthly tournaments except via the daily draw.
However, a player who doesn’t wish to register to the optional GPT scoring system, his points and tournaments played will not be tallied.
Televised Grand Finale
This televised « Quebec Poker Championship » grand finale will bring together the 160 winners of the 4 stages, the 25 overall best point scorers for the year, the 5 members who will have played the most tournaments during the season, 5 winners of the draw for members who will have played a minimum of 100 tournaments, 4 winners of the draw for members that have played at least 1 tournament and the winner of the draw between all members. All these players will seek the title of Quebec’s Champion and could merit themselves all expenses paid entries for major tournaments throughout the world.
- A tournament for the yearly best point scorers of each district will crown Quebec’s District Champion.
- A tournament for the owners and their tournament directors (one each, per registered venue) will crown Quebec’s Champion Venue.
- Draws will be held for entries into the WSOP (World Series of Poker) and other major tournaments, to thank all the players who will have played a set number of tournaments.
- It is automatically accepted by all QUEBEC POKER TOURNAMENT LEAGUE participants that any player who wins more than $10,000, thanks to an entry won within the league, will have to hand over 10% of its net profit to the owner(s) of the registered venue(s) where the said player played during that Stage tournament or during the Quebec Poker Championship. This amount will be divided by percentage in relation with the number of tournaments played in ech venues.
