Weekly leagues: how they work and how to move up

Every week you play against nine other players in your league. You don’t sit at a table with them. You just train, and the board keeps score.

When the week ends, the top of the group moves up a tier and the bottom drops one. Then it starts again.

Five tiers

Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, Platinum. Everyone starts in Bronze.

The ladder is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top:

Tier	Moves up	Drops
Bronze	top 5	nobody
Silver	top 3	bottom 2
Gold	top 2	bottom 2
Diamond	top 1	bottom 3
Platinum	nobody (top tier)	bottom 3

So getting out of Bronze is easy. Holding Platinum is not.

If you moved up last week, you can’t drop this week. You get one week to settle in.

Where the points come from

One PERFECT decision in a ranked session is 1 point. Preflop and postflop count the same.

A session is ranked when Feedback is set to After the decision and the opponent’s cards aren’t shown at the start of the hand. Study and Cheat are for learning, so they earn no league points. The trainer tells you before you start whether a session is ranked.

Today’s Challenge adds 20 to 30 points once a day, if you play it ranked.

Try Again is still there. The decision you retried just doesn’t pay. The rest of the hand does.

League points are not your account XP. XP keeps growing forever. League points start from zero every Monday.

The week

The week closes on Monday at 03:00 UTC. You get the result as a notification and in the inbox.

You take your seat in a group with your first session of the week. Didn’t play? Then you’re not in a group that week, and nothing happens. Two weeks without playing costs you one tier.

If you played but made no PERFECT decision in ranked mode, your place is frozen: no promotion, no drop. One PERFECT decision unfreezes it.

A brand new account works the same way: your very first session puts you in a Bronze group.

What I’d do

Play a little every day instead of one long session on Sunday. Today’s Challenge alone is 20 to 30 points a day, seven days a week.

And play ranked. A great session in Study mode doesn’t move you anywhere.

You’ll find your league in the app under Ranking › League, and on the web at poker.academy/league.

See you at the top of the ladder.

Cheers! 🙂