THIS Is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Thursday, January 8, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
Congratulations–you survived the holidays. You ate the turkey, wrapped the presents, drank the champagne. You’re no longer culturally obligated to gorge yourself stupid, drink yourself silly, and spend hours of quality time with your in-laws. After the five-week sprint from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day you deserve a little breather.
And I hope you enjoyed it. Because it’s over.
Your lazy days and quiet nights come to a blessed end this Friday, when the third UltimateBet Online Championship kicks off. We’re hosting twelve huge tournaments over ten days with over $2 million in guaranteed prize pools. And no matter what your favorite game is–Omaha, H.O.R.S.E., good old-fashioned Hold-Em–you’ll find a UBOC event that fits your particular bill. Here’s the schedule of events:
As you can see there’s gonna be some gambling right off the bat, as the opening UBOC tournament is a Pot-Limit Omaha event…with rebuys. 8:30pm Friday night will not be a good time to be channeling your inner nit. In fact, if you look over the schedule you’ll find just two “normal” full-ring No-Limit Hold-Em events–and one of those is the $1 million-guaranteed UBOC Championship. If that fits your definition of “normal” then you run in much faster circles than I do. But with several deep-stack events, a 128-player heads-up tournament, a sniper event…they say variety is the spice of life, and UBOC3 will…no, I am not going to make a Taco Bell joke here. Let’s just say that every night will bring a new and exciting challenge for the best online poker players on the planet.
Past UBOCs past have seen some remarkable displays of poker prowess. Brock “Maria Nuccia” Parker, a well-known and well-regarded online pro, took down the first UBOC Main Event and won a silver bracelet to go with his $168,450 first prize. Last year saw one of the most astonishing performances in online poker history, as Greg “Wild Duck” Hobson won the $100+9 No-Limit Hold-Em with rebuys event…and then won the $200+15 No-Limit Hold-Em event the next day. Oh, and the day he won his second UBOC event? Greg also final-tabled the $500+30 NLH event that started later in the afternoon. That’s two wins and a final table in about 24 hours. Not that the cake needed icing, Greg also finished fifth in the $500+30 shorthanded NLH event. Back in 17th-century Massachusetts such an extraordinary performance might’ve gotten Hobson burned at the stake. We anointed him UBOC Player of the Year instead. That’s progress.
Now, maybe you’re looking at the UBOC schedule and finding the buy-ins a bit steep. Maybe you invested your bankroll with Bernard Madoff and, well, we know that story doesn’t have a happy ending. But that doesn’t mean you can’t join in on the UBOC fun. If you look at the far right of the schedule printed above you’ll see the “Mini-UBOC” list of tournaments. Every UBOC event (save the six-handed Hold-Em event and the Championship) is mirrored by a tournament with one-tenth the buy-in. Dying for the chance to play in a big H.O.R.S.E tournament or chomping at the bit to join in some rebuy madness? You can jump into a mini-UBOC event and play for a tidy guaranteed prize pool. I think that’s where I’ll be investing my soon-to-be-depleted bankroll.
And it all starts this Friday at 8:30pm ET. We’ll be covering each and every tournament here at the UltimateBet Blog so be sure to follow along with all the action…and maybe you’ll be the player making the big splash during UBOC3.
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