I'm an Empire VIP member and I'm trying to understand how they calculate their "points" that can be used for the royal flush club.

It shows me with 582 points for the last 30 days. According to http://www.empirepoker.com/vip/vip_epoints.html
the forumla for points is the square root of raked hands (twice if you are VIP)

So for the last 30 days, 2 sqrt(x) = 582 where X is number of raked hands.

That means I've played (582*2)^2 or 1,354,896 hands over the last 30 days.

Huh??? What am I screwing up here?

I come up with 84681 hands for you.
582/2 =291
291*291 = 84681
is that closer to what you played or am I missing something too?

nevermind, I already think my answer is wrong

Oh wait,
maybe not.

Yes, the 84k is correct. But still. I know I played about 8k hands last month by looking at pokertracker.

This is done on a daily basis Tim and each day added up.

Ex. 100 hands played - Monday square root of 100 = 10 X 2 = 20
100 hands played --- Tuesday = 20
And so forth
If you just added all your hands up for the days it would be square root of 200 = 14.14 X 2 = 28.28 points instead of 40.

I figured it was a compounding issue. Thanks piers.

T