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We are half way through UBOC5 now and had some exciting results so far with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake. Event #1 was a $320 No Limit Hold’em event with a prize pool of $243,810. The tournament was won by “PBDRUNKS” for $54,759. UB.com came close to having a sponsored pro at the… Read more »
August 18th officially kicks off UB.com’s multi-million dollar series UBOC5. The series runs over 12 days and hosts 20 events. Running concurrently with the UBOC is the Mini-UBOC, a series of games with lower buy-ins. Regardless of your bankroll, the UBOC series has an event to suit all players The UBOC’s buy-ins for the events… Read more »
In his blog, poker legend Doyle Brunson recently discussed the trials and tribulations of the CEREUS Network. For those who are unaware, the CEREUS Network, which has found itself in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, suffered a security breach that cast another dark cloud over both UB.com and Absolute Poker. UB.com has… Read more »
This coming Sunday, UB.com and partner site Absolute Poker will be rewarding every ring game player across the CEREUS Network with twice the number of UltimatePoints and AbsolutePoints for a full 24-hours. The Pour Hour promotion, which is normally offered for a six hour period, is being upped to a full day by UB.com. For… Read more »
In lieu of the CEREUS Network’s recent security stuggles, UB.com has been scrambling to rectify the inexcusable situation to their customers and the rest of the online poker industry. In a statement released this morning, UB.com’s COO Paul Leggett released a statement introducing Open SSL encryption technology for all of their client-server communications: Hi Everyone,… Read more »
You won’t find any tournaments on UB.com tonight with 15K runners, but that could be a good thing; unless you make the final table, playing a tournament that large can only end in disappointment…and that’s going to happen more often than not. So, if MiniFTOPS isn’t really your thing, swing by UB.com for some of… Read more »
Although UB.com is a smaller site that doesn’t get nearly the same amount of traffic as PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, they still try to pull out all the stops on Sundays with their Major, the 200K Guaranteed. This past Sunday, UB.com saw their biggest tournament get 1093 entrants, which bumped the prize-pool to almost… Read more »
Ultimate Bet wants to have a strong representation at the felts in the LA Poker Classic, for that reason there will be many packages at stake at the different super satellite events taking place on every Sunday in February. Each package will include the $10K buy-in plus $2K for traveling and accommodation expenses. The main… Read more »
Ultimate Bet is challenging all their pros in a unique promotion that will have them competing against each other. Each pro will be assigned a freeroll with a $2K prize pool and each one of them will be in charge of promoting their tourney by adding an extra prize for the winner of the tournament.… Read more »
All Ultimate Bet players will have the unique opportunity to enter an exclusive freeroll that will have $2K in cash prizes, but since that doesn’t seem too special after all, the first place prize will also include the opportunity to Skydive with Ultimate Bet Pro Joe Sebok in the Nevada desert. To enter the tournament,… Read more »
Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker have put together the fourth edition of the UBOC tournaments, and the players’ response has been great. The final events will follow in the next days and there will be $1.3 million guaranteed at stake. This past weekend was the first $1 million guaranteed tourney and it reached a total… Read more »
All Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet players will get the chance to play at the fourth run of the UBOC championship this upcoming weekend, there will be more than $1.5 million in guaranteed cash prizes distributed among four tournaments. The first tournament on schedule is a heads-up event with a $1K buy-in, the guaranteed prize… Read more »
The Cereus Network is hosting the UBOC events for the fourth time and the first events have been successful: there has been a great influx of players, thousands of dollars have been awarded and there’s more money on the line in the upcoming events. A minimum of $4 million will be awarded in the 18… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has beefed up their leaderboard prizes and top performers will receive entries to some of the biggest tournaments world wide and online. There’s a total of one million dollars in prizes for the players who reach the top of the weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboards. The multi table tournament leaderboards received the largest… Read more »
Ultimate Bet will be hosting the UBOC tournament series starting on January 20th ; there will be eighteen events and a total of $4 million will be at stake. Some of the variations played will be Hold’em, Omaha, H.O.R.S.E., Heads-up, Pot Limit, No Limit and Snyper. There will be two tournaments that will have a… Read more »
Being only a few days away from the multi million dollar series of events called UBOC surely builds anxiety. After all players don’t get the chance to play for such great prizes every day and get to play against some members of team UB as well. Since UB wants to start the year with great… Read more »
A recently announced promotion will have all Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker players fighting their way to the top in one of the three No Limit Hold’em tournaments that will award a package to the Super Bowl, worth $12K. There will be a total of three packages at stake and only one package will be… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has re-branded their poker room to ub.com, but they’ve also implemented physical changes such as icons for each type of tournament and cash game tables tables, new tournament structures, synchronized breaks, and new guaranteed tournaments. But Ultimate Bet wants to celebrate their re-branding wit their players, and what better way to do that… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has an interesting promotion for all their players this December. Players who sit at specific poker tables and will be earning double UltimatePoints. The promotion will only run for six hours a day, from 1-4 am and 1-4 pm from Monday-Saturday. The promotion will also be available on Sundays from 1-4 am and… Read more »
Ultimate Bet and its sister site Absolute Poker recently made some important changes to their poker client, with their focus mainly on creating a better user experience with their software. Thus, they implemented the use of avatars which make identifying specific tournaments easier on the eye. Among the many changes that Ultimate Bet has implemented… Read more »
After being in the market for over 10 years, Ultimate Bet is slowly trying to change their image. UB wants to reach more people world wide and to give prospective players additional motivation to sign-up, they have added a variety of new tournaments to their schedule. In addition, UB has also improved the structures of… Read more »
Ultimate Bet just celebrated their tenth anniversary, and to celebrate they’ve added Joe Sebok to the Ultimate Bet team in hopes that he can help them compete with the likes of PokerStars and Full Tilt. Joe is one of the brightest young business minds in poker and his popularity reach an all-time high last week… Read more »
Ultimate Bet‘s biggest guarantees of the weekend were, of course, reserved for Sunday. The first tournament on the schedule was a $100K tournament that started at 2 pm, the top two players made a deal and at the end the top two finishers were MattGraham and VIETCON01. The biggest tournament of the weekend was the… Read more »
This weekend will be really busy for the poker community worldwide. First of all, the WSOP main event will be played down to a final winner and, on top of that, the Epic Nine promotion will also be played out until a final winner is reached. This is all not to mention Ultimate Bet‘s regular… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has been awarding packages to the biggest live tournaments since the year started, and they show no signs of stopping. They have recently announced three different ways in which their players can earn a package to the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. This monster event will be held at the Bellagio in… Read more »
