Looking ahead, and refreshing things to ensure we keep the league as competitive and enjoyable as possible, whilst hopefully at some point not too far away working to incorporate both live and online league aspects, to ensure it is long lasting, from March onwards we will be running qualification from new regional leagues as follows:

Angies Room (Rest of World)
Scotland
Northern (North West and North East combined)
Midlands (Midlands and Eastern combined)
Southern (South West and Southern combined)

With the cancellation of the lie National Championship, all historical finals which have contributed points to the old National Leaderboards will be moved over to the new regional qualification leaderboards as above to allow us to combine both old and future finals that will now add to qualification for the next live National Championship on the same 'combined' leaderboard.

With today being the final day of the ‘Rankings Leagues’ then we wish the best of luck to all players as you battle it out in today’s events to decide your ‘Finals Weekend’ qualification.

Beyond this, as previously stated, we then start a new MARCH LEAGUE on Mon 1st Mar which will revert to run like the previous regions system, and end on 31st March. Looking ahead, and refreshing things to ensure we keep the league as competitive and enjoyable as possible, whilst hopefully at some point not too far away working to incorporate both live and online league aspects to ensure it is long lasting, from March onwards we will be running qualification from new regional leagues as follows:

Angies Room (Rest of World)
Scotland
Northern (North West and North East combined)
Midlands (Midlands and Eastern combined)
Southern (South West and Southern combined)

The March ‘Finals Weekend’ is planned as follows:

Finals Playoff (Thu 8th Apr 7pm)
1st-3rd Bronze Final Ticket

Bronze Final (Fri 9th Apr 7pm)
1st International Poker Trip + Silver Final Ticket
2nd National Poker Weekend + Silver Final Ticket
3rd National Poker Entry + Silver Final Ticket
4th National Poker Entry + Grand Final Playoff
5th-8th Grand Final Playoff

Silver Final (Sat 10th Apr 7pm)
1st International Poker Trip + Grand Final 25k Stack + Gold Final Ticket
2nd International Poker Trip + Gold Final Ticket
3rd National Poker Weekend + Gold Final Ticket
4th National Poker Weekend + Grand Final Playoff
5th National Poker Entry + Grand Final Playoff
6th National Poker Entry + Grand Final Playoff
7th-8th Grand Final Playoff

Gold Final (Sun 11th Apr 7pm)
1st Las Vegas Package + Grand Final 50k stack
2nd Las Vegas Package + Grand Final 25k stack
3rd International Poker Trip + Grand Final 25k stack
4th International Poker Trip + Grand Final Playoff
5th National Poker Weekend + Grand Final Playoff
6th National Poker Weekend + Grand Final Playoff
7th National Poker Entry + Grand Final Playoff
8th National Poker Entry + Grand Final Playoff

Grand Final Playoff (Mon 12th Apr 7pm)
(above Qualifiers plus other Qualifiers)

NOTES:

The Monthly league leaderboards are here https://bit.ly/LPPLleaderboards

The points scoring system is here https://bit.ly/LPPLleaguepoints

The daily games will continue to run with 50% of buyins paid as cash prizes manually by Party Poker to your player account within 2 days (which is why game payout tabs in the lobby for each game don’t show any prizes) to the top finishing players (it’s usually the next day - but for example, Mon games payout could be Wed, etc) / 50% retained by LPPL, from which of course prizes etc are paid.

Each players’ total leaderboard points score will be their top 12 games throughout the monthly league.

Points on each leaderboard qualify you to play in either the Gold, Silver, Bronze Finals, or the Finals Playoff* and the 'cut off' qualifying lines for each will be decided around mid-league, along with final confirmation of prizes, and if needed, qualifying lines will be adjusted throughout the league to keep in line with each individual leaderboard as the league progresses – qualifying lines will never 'decrease', but may 'increase' if adjustments are deemed desirable to ensure the league remains competitive, fair and rewarding. Once each league's 'bottom qualifying line' (ie bottom of the Bronze Final) has been set, the Gold, Silver and Bronze qualifying numbers will be circa Gold 20-30% / Silver 30-50% / Bronze 30-50%, with number of games played, number of players with min games played etc taken into account to decide the final qualifying line for each final within each league - qualifying lines / numbers between leagues will invariable differ. *In order to qualify to play in the ‘Finals Playoff’ a minimum of 12 games must be played during the league period.

All LPPL packages are non-transferable and are valid for winners' to use for 3 years, after which they will expire. A player may use any 'subsequent' package for a partner / friend to travel with them and share accommodation on the same trip, or of course, use it themselves for a different trip (as valid for 3 years). Where a player qualifies to play in a 'higher' Final (eg, finish top 3 in Playoffs, or Bronze, and qualify to play in next highest final) then if that player goes on to win a higher value prize in the higher final, then ONLY that higher value prize is awarded - a player can only win one prize during a Finals Weekend, which will be the highest valued prize - this does NOT include any Grand Final Stack / Seat, which will still be awarded if a Silver Qualifier earns a seat in the Gold Final and wins a Grand Final Stack with a lesser valued prize than the Silver Final - in this instance they would win / retain the highest value prize (from Silver final) PLUS get the Grand Final Stack / Seat – however, only one Grand Final stack can be won during any league period’s ‘Finals Weekend’. Prize packages will be added to LPPL Member Accounts for them to be used via the LPPL online shop for Vegas, International Trip, National Weekends etc.

Players are reminded to ensure that the email address info@lpplleaguepoker.com is cleared to be received into their email 'in box' and not filtered to their spam/junk folder as this is the official means of communication from LPPL.

We’re bringing something new to LPPL for Feb, replacing the usual area league system - but that'll be back for Mar 😊 

With much regret, with only 6 weeks to go to the planned FOPP starting on 4th March, and with still so much uncertainty around coronavirus, we've had to take the decision to cancel the FOPP and look to host it at a future date.

We're determined to ensure as best we can that we get together asap in a live poker environment, and therefore can confirm the following events are planned:

Feb League - something different!

Mar 5th - 7th:  FOPP Online

Jul 1st - Jul 8th: Las Vegas (flights from Heathrow etd 1st 16:40; eta 9th 15:45 - 7 nights)

Sep 3rd - 5th:  Interleague (Northfield Cons Club, Midlands)

Oct 30th - Nov 2nd:  Malta Poker Festival (3 nights)

Nov 25th - Nov 28th: FOPP (incl National Championship & Grand Final)

Whilst of course all the above are still subject to final confirmation, we're sure just like us you'll be glad of something to plan for, and to look forward to - poker and great company with a few drinks :) and we very much look forward to seeing many of the #LPPLdysfunctionalfamily ASAP.