How many hands of 10NL blitz on ACR is approximately enough to earn a spot on the weekly leaderboard? I feel like the $50 is going to make a meaningful change in the results and the win rate. Let me know if you guys have any experience playing in these pools and have any advice you are able to share as well.

In the absence of you playing a certain number of hands, seeing what points/rake/whatever it gets you and then extrapolating for yourself based on a previous leaderboard, try the ACR threads in the online poker forums as opposed to here, you're more likely to get an accurate response where there's a higher proportion of readers who might have a clue what you're on about

Very easy pool. They cannot fold an over pair. Ever

I don't have an exact number, but at 10b it would be arbitrarily high. The math varies by stake and pool a bit, but I did a bit of back-of-the-envelope math and came up with needing to rake about $150/week to get the min prize. I'm not sure exactly what the rake at 10b is, but even with a high assumption of 10bb/100 rake, that leaves you needing 15,000 hands for the mincash. I wouldn't be surprised if it took somewhere in the region of 15-20k hands to reach the lowest tier.

Of course it's a large winrate contributor, but that's an insane amount of 10b to play weekly and you'd be better off spending some of that grind time on your game rather than mashing low-quality microstakes hands for a minimum rakeback reward. The beast is much more appealing for lowstakes grinders -- at 50b, the minimum reward is achievable with something like 5-6000 hands, which is a much more reasonable number.

The above is correct. I went through a phase of grinding 10b like a full time job a few years ago and it would take about 20k hands in a week to get the $50 beast.
Also agree that it's a waste of time if you're actually trying to improve and move up stakes your time is better spent studying and playing softer games.

Hey, I've hit the $50 beast payout the last few weeks with around 1800 points. Roughly 1000 hands = 100 points. So you need to play around 18000 - 20000 hands.

Also just a side note. This pool is pretty tough IMO. I'm by no means a good player but I struggle to break even at 10NL Zoom while I can consistantly beat regular 25NL