SEASON 2

How It Works

Play the Mains, grind the nightlies and draft a fantasy squad. Every point you earn also counts for the teams that drafted you.

$50Season entry
14Weeks of play
3Players per team
Top 8Make the playoffs

Weekly Events

NLH Main$25
Sundays · 3:00 PMRegular-length No-Limit Hold'em. Normal prize pool.
PLO Main$25
Tuesdays · 8:00 PMRegular-length Pot-Limit Omaha. Normal prize pool.
Grinder$5
Nightly · 6:00 PMShort turbo, NLH or PLO. Winner takes all.
Championship FinaleFREE
Early FebruarySix qualifiers, NLH Deep Stack. Winner takes all.
  • Grinders run with as few as 3 players. No caps on how many you play.
  • Guests can join any Main or Grinder and play for cash, but never earn league points.
  • Event cash payouts are separate from the league prize pool. No points for knockouts or rebuys.

Scoring

FinishNLH / PLO MainGrinder
1st place184
2nd place131
3rd place91
Everyone else who plays31
  • Main points: 3 for playing, plus +15 for 1st, +10 for 2nd, +6 for 3rd.
  • Grinder points: 1 for playing, plus +3 for the winner. No 2nd or 3rd bonus.
  • If a guest finishes in the top 3, they keep that spot. Nobody gets bumped up into it.
  • No-shows and cancelled events earn zero.

Main Win Streaks

Win consecutive Main tournaments you enter to earn streak bonuses. Skipping an event doesn't reset your streak. NLH and PLO share one streak, so an NLH win followed by a PLO win counts.

1st win18+0 bonus
2nd straight20+2 bonus
3rd straight21+3 bonus
4th straight & beyond22+4 bonus
  • Playing a Main and not winning it resets your streak to zero.
  • Skipping a Main doesn't count against you. Your next Main entered has to be a win to keep it going.
  • Grinders never start, extend or break a streak.
  • Four straight Main wins = 18 + 20 + 21 + 22 = 81 points.

Fantasy Teams

  • Every league member runs a 3-player team: you (locked in) plus two other members you draft.
  • Rank the players you want on your draft card. A random-order, two-round snake draft runs automatically.
  • Every member gets drafted exactly twice, so everyone is on three teams total.
  • No player can be drafted more than twice, nobody can draft themselves, and a team can't roster the same player twice. The draft enforces these limits automatically.
  • Your points count for you and for every team that rosters you that week.

Trades

  • One drafted teammate for one drafted teammate. Both managers must approve.
  • You can't trade yourself. No waivers, free agents or drops.
  • Trades can't place a player on their own team or duplicate a teammate.
  • Trades only affect future events. Points already earned stay with the team that earned them.
  • Trade deadline: end of Week 9 (Sun, Dec 27). No trades after that.

Matchups & Playoffs

Weekly head-to-headEach Monday–Sunday week, your team's total points from that week's events face one opponent. Higher score wins.
11-week regular seasonWith 12 managers, every team plays every other team once. Seeding is win–loss record first, then total points.
3-week playoffsTop 8 teams. Each round only counts that week's points. The two finalist rosters send players to the Finale.
  • Week 1 runs from the Sun, Oct 25 kickoff through Sun, Nov 1, so it includes three Mains (Oct 25, Oct 27 and Nov 1). Every matchup gets the same extra event.
  • Weeks 2–11 run Monday to Sunday. The regular season ends Sun, Jan 10.
  • Playoffs run Jan 11–31: quarterfinals, semifinals, then the final.

Championship Finale Seats

The six players on the two finalist rosters qualify for the Finale. Because everyone is on three teams, those rosters will often share players.

  • A player on both finalist rosters qualifies once.
  • Any open seats go to the highest-scoring players in the individual standings who haven't already qualified.
  • Ties for the last seat use the individual tiebreakers below.

Tiebreakers

Weekly matchups
  1. 1Most Main wins that week
  2. 2Most season points
Playoff matchups
  1. 1Most Main wins that week
  2. 2Most season points
  3. 3Higher seed advances
Team standings
  1. 1Win–loss record
  2. 2Total fantasy points
MVP & final Finale seats
  1. 1Most Main wins
  2. 2Most top-3 Main finishes
  3. 3Most Mains played

Titles & Prizes

100% of the $50 season entries go to prizes. Amounts below assume 12 paid members ($600) and scale with the final count.

  • DMCC ChampionChampionship Finale winner$225
  • League GM ChampionMost cumulative fantasy team points$150
  • Season MVPMost individual points$100
  • League GM Runner-up2nd most fantasy team points$50
  • MVP Runner-up2nd most individual points$50
  • MVP 3rd Place3rd most individual points$25
  • The League GM title is decided by cumulative fantasy team points, not the playoffs, and is paid only to that manager.
  • Season MVP counts all 14 competitive weeks. Finale results don't count toward MVP or GM standings.
  • The Finale can be chopped only if every remaining player agrees.

Season Calendar

  1. Mon, Oct 12Registration opens, $50 entry
  2. Sun, Oct 18 (happening now)Registration closes at midnight
  3. Oct 19–21Players submit ranked draft cards
  4. Thu, Oct 22Automated fantasy draft and team reveal
  5. Oct 23–24Teams revealed, matchups published
  6. Sun, Oct 25Season 2 kicks off, NLH Main at 3 PM
  7. Tue, Oct 27First PLO Main at 8 PM
  8. Jan 10Regular season ends
  9. Jan 11–31Three-week fantasy playoffs
  10. Early FebSix-player Championship Finale

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