Ultimate Online Championship
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - P0ker H0
The Ultimate Online Championships started last Friday, and so far it’s been a really good ride. Event #1 was a PLO tournament, and I really am not that experienced in it. I must say though, I have fallen in love with PLO. It was such a nice reprieve from the normal NL tournaments I play all the time. I focused really hard and found myself at the Final Table. 7 handed and I get dealt aqq2 with the ace and 2 of spades in early position. I decided to limp because the table has been so aggressive, and I was sure to get re-raised. Sure enough the guy to my immediate left raises. It folds around to me, and I’m thinking he probably has kk or aa, so I decided to see a flop and see if it would be bad for his hand. The flop came A59, and at this point I’m thinking he probably doesn’t have AA, because I have one, so I’m thinking more towards KK now. I check and he bets enough where if I shove, he has to call. I shoved and he had AKK7, and I was eliminated. My read was on, but unfortunately he had the other Ace to have me outkicked and I finished in 7th place for $3100. None the less I had a lot of fun.
The next day, was UBOC Event #2 and it was a $320 NL and although I was eliminated fairly quickly in it, I actually won the MINI-UBOC event #2 that coincided with it. It felt really good to outlast 400 something players trying to win the title. The final prize was $3300 so overall it’s been a great UBOC so far.
There has been some added excitement to the UBOC’s this year with the introduction of www.ubpokerleagues.com. It’s a website that takes a designated group of tournaments and scores them like a league. You pick a partner and try to outscore other teams and win the side prize pools that are offered. Currently my team is in 3rd place of the UBOC League, and 2nd of the MINI-UBOC League. We would be crushing until Wiscomurray got 2nd last night in the UBOC #4 $530 NL event. There are still a lot of tournies left in the league and plenty of time to catch up though. I really recommend playing these leagues. They add a whole new dimension and incentive to play good poker. The UBOC Leagues are closed, but you can sign up for Low, Mid, and Highstakes leagues that run every week. Be sure to check it out.
Gl to Everyone who plays the UBOC’s and Bad luck to everyone who plays the UBOC League.
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Tags: mini UBOC, PLO, ub poker leagues, UBOC
January 18th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
get phil out nof the way so you dont end up here!!!!!!!!!!!!!