Friday, January 23, 2009 - UB Marketing
Last week was huge for poker at Ultimate Bet. Not only the UBOC championship finished, but some major promotions like the Wild Card (NFL Super Bowl Tickets) giveaway took place and 2 UB players will soon be heading to the nice city of Tampa in Florida for the game of their lives.
Things have come back to normality regarding the tournament schedule and this week we’ll be hosting the $200k GTD after 2 weeks of absence. Not only the 200k is back, but be sure to check all the new satellites that have been launched for events such as the Sniper 40k, Sniper 80k and the all the $100k events we host throughout the week.
On another note, for all those huge tournament players and sit n go players remember Ultimate Bet recently launched brand new leaderboards which have been designed to reward every type of player. So it doesn’t matter if you like playing $1 9 seated sngs or $200 multi table tournaments if you finish in the money you will be scoring points and participating in some CEREUS money giveaways at the end of the week and major freerolls for top winners at the end of the month.
So, for the following weeks one of the biggest satellite we are running are the Pokernews Cup satellites. This major event will take place in Austria from March 21st-28th and it promises to be a 1 of a kind event. Not only some major poker personalities will attend and huge prizepools are expected, but attendants will have the opportunity to play poker in one of the most amazing sites in the world surrounded with beautiful mountains, nature and amazing views… My advice, check out the satellite schedule on your poker client and get your luggage ready because for as low as 660 points or $10 you can end up playing some exciting tournaments with the best players in the world at the Alps!!!
Tags: 200k guarenteed, Austria, Cereus, leaderboards, players rewards, Pokernews Cup, sniper 40k, sniper 80k, sniper tournaments, super bowl XLIII Ticket Giveaway, UBOC, wild card main event
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
T.J. Cloutier once said that he didn’t care how many people he knocked out of a poker tournament, so long as he knocked out the LAST person. Because, obviously, that meant he’d won the tournament, and that’s the ultimate goal. But as anyone who’s watched poker on TV knows the most dramatic moments are the big confrontations, when all the chips go in the middle, the cards are flipped over, and one player’s life hangs in the balance.
Not that poker players usually need extra incentive to go for the throat, but last night’s UBOC event gave them even more reason to channel the shrieking, befanged beast that lies within. UBOC Event #8 was our Sniper event, where each player has a $30 bounty on his/her head. Knock someone out, collect thirty bucks. Knock two people out, collect sixty bucks. Knock three people out…but I’ve made my point.
So in addition to the money you’d win for cashing there was another revenue stream to be had–collecting scalps. And one of the trophies most prized at UB’s tables is a knockout of Phil Hellmuth, who made a deep run and finished 31st. His run might’ve been deeper had he not been crippled by RAM20INCH and then polished off soon after by CALMJACKAL, which delighted the railbirds watching Phil.
Speaking of the railbirds, some anthropology Ph.D candidate should eschew the indiginous tribes of the Amazon or Papua New Guinea and do a detailed study of people who rail well-known poker players. There’s important and interesting work to be done among those people.
Several other well-known players came close to making the final table, including Jon “PearlJammed” Turner (who finished 12th) and Frank “gator43″ Hernandez (who finished 13th). HUSSRAMILTON, who was the runner-up in Tuesday night’s H.O.R.S.E. event, followed up that impressive result by posting an 11th place finish. And Robbie “CUNNINGHAM” Cunningham finished 16th…here’s a picture of him from the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic:
That’s Liv Boeree standing on Robbie’s shoulders. Good picture of him, yes?
Anyway, there were nine players who DID make the final table, and here there are/were:
And as the final table played down here’s how they placed and cashed:
- 9th: Corey “CMB8757″ Burbick $2,611
- 8th: THALAIET $3,682
- 7th: AGS104 $5,022
- 6th: MICOJONES $6,361
- 5th: TWOLIP69 $7,700
- 4th: RAM20INCH $9,374
As the survivors played three-handed SAILORLOBELL held nearly 60% of the chips in play, and he seized total control when he raised to $33,000 on the button and Jason “TAKNAPOTIN” Somerville moved all-in for his last $303K. SAILORLOBELL called and his Ac-Ks had Somerville’s Kd-Qs dominated. The board bricked for both players and SAILORLOBELL went into heads-up play with a $1.17 million to $315K chiplead over STRIFE23.
A lead that lasted just one hand, as STRIFE23 doubled up when, holding A-3 to SAILORLOBELL’S A-9 and all the money in preflop, STRIFE23 rivered a trey to stay alive and get himself back in serious contention. But despite that brutal beat SAILORLOBELL didn’t falter, winning the next four hands to get his stack back up over $1 million. He maintained that lead until the last hand, as the two players saw a 6c-4s-8s flop and STRIFE23 led out for $50,000. SAILORLOBELL made a small raise to $120,000, and STRIFE23 moved in the last of his chips. To find that his Jc-7c were in bad shape against SAILORLOBELL’s Js-10s. The 8d on the turn and 9c on the river didn’t save STRIFE23 and he finished as our runner-up, winning $20,088. While SAILORLOBELL took home $32,810, an UltimateBet Online Championship title…and $30 for knocking the last person out of the tournament.
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