America’s Cardrooms two latest monthly promotional offerings have become so popular the site is continuing them for another month. These are the $60k Marathon and the $10k Sit ‘n’ Go Mania.
In each case, the contest is a points race. Earn as many points as possible by playing in your choice of America’s Cardroom cash games or tournaments and land on the respective leaderboard. The $60k Marathon leaderboard is for all America’s Cardroom players, no matter the game or style, with 1 1/4 points awarded for every dollar in tournament fee or rake paid. Players can also earn extra points for playing in certain key events, like America’s Cardrooms Satellite tournaments for Latin Series of Poker event in Lima (LSOP Lima).
And incidentally, speaking of the LSOP, America’s Cardroom is also currently holding satellites for the LSOP Lima taking place June 5 through 10 at Casino Atlantic City in Lima, Peru with a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.
The $10k Sit ‘n’ Go Mania leaderboard is for, as it sounds, the site’s sit and go players. To determine how many Sit ‘n’ Go Mania leaderboard points you’ll earn for playing in a sit and go, multipy the buy-in cost by the number of players in the event and divide that by 10.
First place in the $60k Marathon is $8k and America’s Cardroom pays out to the top 275 places, while first place in the $10k Sit ‘n’ Go Mania promotion is $2k and the site pays out to the top 125 places.