UB.com: UBOC 5 About to Kick Off

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 range from $162 up to $1050, whilst the Mini-UBOC buy-ins ranges from $11 up to $55.

Styles of poker being played for the UBOC series are: Holdem, Omaha, 8-Game and HORSE. These events are also played on 4max, 6max and Full Ring tables.

The UBOC series is also home to an unique promotion called the bubble buster. The bubble buster essentially rewards players that make it past the bubble and into the money. If a player manages two cashes within the UBOC they are awarded a $10,000 freeroll entry and for 11 or more cashes within the series you can win $1 million.

The bubble buster prizes are:

2 cashes – $10,000 freeroll entry

3 cashes – $215 tournament ticket ($200,000 guaranteed event)

4 cashes – $530 tournament ticket ($75,000 guaranteed event)

5 cashes – $530 tournament ticket ($100,000 guaranteed event)

6 cashes – $1,050 tournament ticket ($100,000 guaranteed event)

7 cashes – $5,000

8 cashes – $10,000

9 cashes – $25,000

10 cashes – $100,000

11 or more cashes – $1,000,000

The Main Event for the UBOC is an $1,050 buy-in No Limit Holdem event and hosted by none other than Phil “The Poker Brat” Hellmuth. Last year’s champion of the Main Event “Doubledave22” had a payday of over $279,000 after surviving a field of 1,307 players.

The history of winners and first prizes of the UBOC Main Event is:

UBOC 1 – maria nuccia – $211,500

UBOC 2 – psmoney – $181,575

UBOC 3 – yungmoney209 – $245,189

UBOC 4 – doubledave22 – $279,044

With the exception of UBOC2, we have seen growth in the UBOC series as time goes on. Will this year’s winner have a chance to take over $300,000 for first place? We will find out shortly. Poker News Daily will be covering the UBOC and all the action as it takes place.