Ultimate Grinder Leaderboard

If you play online poker cash games, then you should be aware of a website called pokertableratings.com. Pokertableratings is a tracking site that keeps a record of almost every online poker player on the internet and is a useful tool when looking up your opponents to see their stats. It's also a sort of poker community with blogs, forums, news articles, and something called the Ultimate Grinder Leaderboard.

The Ultimate Grinder Leaderboard shows what players are making the most money at all possible stakes online. Every month it resets. If you end the month at the top of the leaderboard you earn a badge on your player page showing the world that you were the best player at your stakes for that month. Here's an example (click to enlarge):



What does this mean? It means that out of all the major online poker sites in the world (Full Tilt, Pokerstars, Merge, Cake, iPoker, Party Poker, UB, AP, and Bodog) you won more money than ANYONE IN THE WORLD for that month at whatever stakes you were playing.

I stated on facebook that I was going to try and earn the UGL Badge for $.25/$.50 this month. It would be pretty cool, I think, to be considered the #1 $50nl player in the world :)

I'll keep everyone posted on how I'm doing. So far I've earned $1,176 at $50nl which puts me in 8th place so far. The average UGL winner for $50nl earns about $5,750 for the month. If I can maintain this pace then I should earn about $7,000. We'll see how it goes.

Wish me luck!