Tournament Points are a very important part of ClubWPT. If you want to play poker games there and win money you should learn everything about TPs. This guide will tell you everything: what the points are, how to get them and how to spend. You will learn everything you need and will not ask for extra information.
As you know, ClubWPT is subscription based poker room. That means you are not required to make deposit in order to win real money. All you need is to purchase VIP status. Learn more about Membership Plans here. After you make a purchase you will receive Tournament Points. They are equivalent of cash. Traditional poker rooms require player to take money to the table and play. Player has to put his funds at risk. WPT Club doesn’t have any cash tables or buy-ins. TPs are used instead.
ClubWPT™ is the official subscription online poker game of the World Poker Tour®. VIP and Diamond users pay a monthly subscription fee for exclusive access to member benefits including full episodes from every past season of the WPT® television show, valuable savings and coupons, invites to official World Poker Tour® live events and much more. WPT League hosts Free Live Texas Hold'em Tournaments at your favorite locations throughout the United States allowing you to learn the game, test your poker skills against others in your area, sharpen the skills you have already mastered, and enjoy the 'Poker Night' food and drink specials at participating WPT League Venues.
That’s one of the reasons why the Club is still legal in the United States. You will not find real money games here because players don’t have deposits. TPs are used for all buy-ins.
Tournament Points can’t be transferred to other player. Only you can use your balance. They can’t be sold or exchanged for cash because they have no cash value. They can be spent within ClubWPT only. You can use them as tournaments or SnGs buy-in or for playing casino games.
Note: there are two types of tournaments – play money and VIP. Play money tourneys don’t require TPs and don’t offer good prizes. Only VIP tourneys with valuable prizes require TPs.
Everything is pretty simple. You need to upgrade your account from Basic to VIP in order to receive Tournament Points. You will get 500 TPs by default after upgrading to VIP. 500 is the default threshold. If you play games and spend the points they will be automatically “topped up” the next day. That means you will have at least 500 TPs every day.
If you spend all the points too fast today, you will have until they will be “topped up”. So don’t worry if you see that you have no points at all. Just wait for some time and you will receive another portion. As you see it’s impossible to lose something when you are ClubWPT VIP member. You have the points and if you lose all of them you will be refunded. This is the most important advantage of the Club!
Please note, you will not be receiving 500 TPs every day. You balance will be refunded if it lowers below 500 threshold. If your balance is higher, you are in good shape and will not be receiving anything. But if your balance drops below this threshold you will be refunded.
Thus, you will have at least 500 points on your balance every day, but you can win more if you wish. There are tournaments where you can get the points as a prize. There is one reason to raise the balance: some tournaments may require more points than you currently have. For example there may be a great tournament with big prize pool, but the buy-in is 1000 TPs. You will not be able to participate in such tourney because you don’t have enough “funds”.
There is only one way: to play tourneys and win extra points. ClubWPT offers a lot of different tourneys where cash and TPs can be won. Participating in such tourneys is the only way to raise the balance.
To be honest, it’s very easy to win Tournament Points. For example there are small tournaments with 20TPs buy-in where 200 places are paid. The structure of payouts can be seen below:
1st | 350 TPs + $10 |
2nd | 300 TPs + $5 |
3rd | 250 TPs + $5 |
4th | 225 TPs |
5th | 200 TPs |
6th | 175 TPs |
7th | 150 TPs |
8th | 125 TPs |
9th | 100 TPs |
10th | 100 TPs |
11th - 20th | 75 TPs |
21st - 30th | 50 TPs |
31st - 50th | 45 TPs |
51st - 100th | 40 TPs |
101st - 150th | 35 TPs |
151st 200th | 30 TPs |
Great news is that the number of participants is about 80-100 players in every tournament! That means you can just pay the buy-in and fold all the cards. You will get profit anyway. Of course it’s better to play and win the first place. You will get 350 TPs and $10 of cash reward.
Increasing Tournament Points balance is not a difficult task. ClubWPT gives a lot of different opportunities for this.
A lot of players ask about this. Everything depends on your final goal and your strategy. If you want to take part in really big tournament with high buy-in you shouldn’t save the points. Participating in small tournaments only will not reward you with enough TPs for reaching such a big goal. You will have to risk in order to collect enough points for big tournament.
Imagine you have just signed up as VIP and have only 500 on your balance. Your goal is Monthly $10 000 Guaranteed tournament with 2000 TPs buy in, but right now you don’t have enough “funds”. You will have to risk in order to progress faster and collect required sum. For example you can participate in 100 TP No Limit HoldEm Sit & Go tournament with 6 players. First place wins 500 TPs, second gets 300 TPs & third get 200 TPs. Your starting balance allows to play 5 SnGs with 100 buy-in. Sometimes you will lose, but if you have enough skills you will have progress.
If you want to download ClubWPT Software don't hurry, read this guide before you start. You are in one step before you start playing poker games. If this was a traditional poker room you would need to download and install poker client. Pretty standard procedure. But you don’t need to download any ClubWPT Software in order to play! All you need is to sign up as a new player and create new account. Click the yellow area below to start.
After this, you will see landing page with big green “New User” button. This button allows to create new account. Click it an follow the instructions. The system will ask you to enter all required details: e-mail, username, password and bonus code (if you wish). You can use bonus code WPTC100 and get 2 weeks of free VIP access. You should also pay attention to your Username. It will be displayed to other players when you are playing at the table, so we recommend choosing a name you like. Other players will know and recognize you by your Username.
After you enter all the details, click 'Create Account' and you will be asked to confirm your e-mail. After this is done you are ready to jump into your favourite poker games.
If you don't want to enter your details and and want to stsrt playing as fast as possible, you can create new account using your Facebook profile. It’s the fastest option and it’s very convenient if you use Facebook a lot. If you connect WPT Club and Facebook you will be able to enter the site without username and password. Facebook authentication is 100% safe and is easy to use.
After you create an account using one of the ways specified above and log-in you will be able to start playing. You don’t need to download anything! Just click 'Play Now' button and you will see poker lobby.
Poker lobby will be shown right into your browser. Now everything is ready and you can choose a table where you want to play. Don't forget that every new member can benifit from Free Trial period. If you want to find out more details about how lobby works read 'ClubWPT Software'. This article will tell you some basics about lobby and how to navigate.
Older versions of ClubWPT required players to download and install their software. Once it was ready you had two options to run the game: from your browser or from desktop icon. But now everything is pretty simple and comfortable. You can play poker games using your web-browser from different places. It's much more comfortable than downloading and installing software to each PC you have.
It’s Interesting: when you log-in to your account you will not find any “Deposit” or “Add Funds” button. ClubWPT is a subscription based poker room and all you need to get access to big prize pools is to upgrade your account from Basic to VIP. If you want to find out more about differences between Basic and VIP accounts visit Membership Plans page. But you can play poker games without any upgrades. Every player has play chips and if you are out of play chips you can add them any time for a small fee.
If you would like to play at ClubWPT from Iphone, Ipad or tablet using special app we have bad news for you. Right now there is no special Iphone / Andriod App you can use for participating in poker games. It's possible to play from web-browser only. But later on World Poker Tour may add such app. More and more people are using smartphones and tblets and it becomes impossible to ignore them.