During SCOOP 2013, there have been four separate tournament leader boards: Low, Medium, High and Overall. An error was identified within the initial calculation of points awarded from High stakes tournaments with small fields, which affected the result of the High and Overall leader boards.
The advertised rules required that leader board points should only was awarded when a player cashed. However, that rule did not be enforced throughout the initial calculation of leader board points, and thus some players who played in certain high buy-in events were mistakenly credited with points they weren't eligible to receive. PokerStars regrets the mistake and has taken steps to resolve this instance, and to stop it reoccurring.
As as a result of the this error, 'GeorgeDanzer' received extra points, and was mistakenly ranked in first place at the Overall TLB. After correcting the calculations, the true winner of the total TLB is 'AceQuad' of Mexico. PokerStars has now corrected the leader board and contacted the 2 affected players: 'GeorgeDanzer' and 'AceQuad'. The full leader board prizes of the news Trophy and the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT10 Grand Final Package can be awarded to 'AceQuad'.
In addition, this mistake caused a re-ranking of a few players who would have received prizes at the 2013 SCOOP High leader board. Specifically the next players have moved down from top 10 positions to non-prize awarded positions: 'blanconegro', 'ninototoroko', and 'ImDaNuts'. The next players have moved up into top 10 positions for the inside track High leader board and can now receive $1,050 WCOOP tickets for his or her efforts: 'ana marquez', 'AceQuad', and 'el batong'.
Overall, ten events were suffering from this calculation error. There have been 51 players who were awarded points they didn't earn in step with the official posted rules. The leader board have been re-calculated with the corrected formula. The correction has only changed the prizes for the eight players listed above.
The ten affected events were the High versions of SCOOP 4, 6, 11, 12, 16, 27, 28, 30, 37, and 38. Because these events attract smaller fields, players were awarded points for highly ranked finishes, despite not cashing within the events. PokerStars has corrected the points calculation process to bypass this mistake repeating one day. We apologise to the affected players for this error.
Players with any queries about it will email scoop@pokerstars.com
Michael Josem is the top of Public Relations for PokerStars. He formerly served as a Senior Manager within the Security and Game Integrity teams for PokerStars.
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