Monday, November 2, 2009 - Joe Sebok
What’s up UB?! Hope that all are doing well and life is nothing but good out there. I have tried to play more and more on the site recently, had a couple of winning small sessions playing the $1-$2 game, and then got my ass kicked pretty good one day as well. I just like sitting around with ya’ll and chatting it up as well, so that has been more my focus with playing on the site so far. Seems I haven’t had enough time to really get serious with the cash game playing much, which explains the small stakes. I’ve played the Sunday $200k as well a few times, but haven’t managed to get anything going there at all. I’ll have to check with Cantu about how he does it. That fool seems to win a UB tournament every other week. Wtf? How is he pulling this off? Big wowzers…
I’m writing from Miami airport, on yet another business trip out of the country. I swear, you would think I was more important with all of these trips I am taking all the time. Haha. One this is sickly for sure: I am racking up mad frequent flyer miles. 
Just flew here from Vegas this morning, where I had just finished up taping my very first episode of “Poker After Dark”…but hopefully not my last. I always think I talk so much more than other poker players that they will want my ass on those shows. We’ll see if this inaugural Seebs episode sparks them to bring me back. I can always hope. My lineup featured Howard Lederer, Ali Nejad, Gabe Kaplan, Mark Gregorich, and Kara Scott and the theme was media-based. Was a total blast. You’ll have to wait for it to air to see who won though.
It’s unbelievable that the WSOP final table is just around the corner, and by corner I mean next weekend. I am sickly excited and am obviously pulling for Phil to work some magic and somehow take down that title. It’s hard for me to see anyone disputing that he is the best that has ever played if he can win that bracelet. I think he will have moved solidly past Chip and Doyle for all around dominance with a win there, and that’s to say nothing of his online game, where he crushes too. The dude is a total machine.
Speaking of the final table, be looking for me to do some commentating on the Bluff show that UB is sponsoring. Should be a blast and I’m excited about it. We’ll also be recording some “PokerRoad Radio” episodes as well, so be looking for those. Basically, it’s going to be a seriously busy weekend in Las Vegas coming up. I’ll also have a pretty big announcement that we are going to be letting out of the bag during next weekend as well, so be paying attention for that.
All of you be good, and I’ll holler at you soon!
peace,
J
Tags: Ali Nejad, bluff, Brandon Cantu, gabe kaplan, Howard Lederer, Kara Scott, Mark Gregorich, Online Poker, Phil Hellmuth, Poker After Dark, Poker Poker Poker, Poker Road Radio, tournaments, ub, Vegas, WSOP
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Friday, October 30, 2009 - ProductMan
This is huge, or at least hugely convenient. We’ve heard your pleas and we’re proud to bring Synchronized Breaks to our Multi-Table tourneys. Now everyone at our Multi-Table Tournaments can count on a 5-minute break at the 55th minute of every hour.
Whether you want to grab a snack, hit the bathroom, recharge, or plot your next move, you’ll love the flexibility that our Synchronized Breaks offer. You shouldn’t have to miss a hand or drag your laptop to the bathroom—and now you don’t!
Synchronized breaks for multi-table tournaments take place at the 55th minute of every hour with some exceptions. If a tourney begins at 10:30 and has the Synchronized Breaks feature enabled, the tournament will go on break at 10:55, but all hands will be completed before the break begins. Once all hands are completed, all players get a 5-minute break. After the 5-minute break is over, the tournament will start. Since breaks can happen a few minutes apart, some tourneys might resume before others.
If you play in multiple tourneys that have synchronized breaks enabled, you’ll get one break for all tourneys. Not all tournaments have synchronized breaks. Check the lobby to see if this feature is enabled in your favorite tournament.
You can find compete details right here. As always, let us know what you think. What will you do with your break?
Tags: Mult-table, Poker Poker Poker, Synchronized Breaks, tournaments, ub
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Monday, July 6, 2009 - Cardroom
Here’s your weekly roundup and Congratulations go out to SKINANDBONE, SPIN31, JUROLLO, 7D3LUX7, INEEDMONIES, SKIFOO, SEAN4444, UNGARSTU132, NOBADBEATSPLZ, ROCK3656 and 397COD for taking down the big guarantees and to our deal makers BENDERBLYA and NEGROSOUL!
Tags: guarantee, roundup, tournaments
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Friday, July 3, 2009 - ProductMan
Who doesn’t want to live forever? I’m not talking about tapping into some secret fountain of youth. I’m thinking more along the lines of not facing defeat so soon when you’re at play. I remember those days back at the arcade when games only cost a quarter, maybe two tops. I used to love getting more life out of a certain Italian plumber or taking my Soviet-style blocks further by slipping another couple of coins into the mix. No need to start from square zero when you’ve already found a comfortable place to stand.
It’s that kind of thinking that spawned a useful new feature that we’ve added to our re-buy tourneys. Players will now be able to re-buy any time their balance falls below the required amount (typically 1,500 chips). Players will no longer have to search for the re-buy feature from the menu, since it will be easily accessible from the table at all re-buy tourneys.
All re-buy tournaments will conveniently include a box that quickly lets you select two options. The first option will let you add additional chips to the table if your stack drops below 1,500 chips during the period when re-buys are still available. The second option will allow you to double your re-buy. Even if these options aren’t checked, you’ll still have the option of clicking on the re-buy button to add chips to your stack.
Tags: Re-buy, tournaments
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Friday, June 19, 2009 - ProductMan
After spending countless hours each week behind my beast of a laptop, my perspective might be a little skewed, especially on a Friday. You might just say that I’ve been known to take things for granted. Over the years I’ve become pretty reliant on all the computing powers at my disposal, especially a certain “undo” command. In my world, hitting control-z is the best way to pretend that things never happened. It’s way better than sweeping stuff under the rug, if you ask me. It would be amazing if I could bring those advanced powers to the tables on the days when lady luck decides to abandon me, but it isn’t exactly going to happen. Luckily with our new 30-minute re-buy tournament, we give you the next best thing.
Our new turbo and ultra turbo re-buy tourneys let you re-buy additional chips during the first 30 minutes of play, which amounts to 6 blind escalations on turbo tournaments and 15 blind escalations on ultra turbo tournaments. In case you are keeping score, our turbo re-buy tournaments have 5-minute escalation times, while the ultra turbo version has 2-minute escalation times.
You can re-buy for the same cost as the original tournament. What’s even better is that the extra cash goes into the prize pool. How do you feel about massive pots? How does a new lease on life sound? Log on and feel free to take a detour to victory.
Tags: new features, product, tournaments
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Sunday, May 24, 2009 - Annie Duke
Phew—thank god that whole Celebrity Apprentice thing is over. I feel like I got sucked into a vacuum and was hardly able to get anything done over the past phew months, much less focus on my main passion in life: poker! Well, I have come back up for air just in time to get happily drowned by The World Series of Poker! Yay! It is a week away and I am super excited for this year perhaps because I have felt so disconnected this spring with all The Apprentice shenanigans. So…what’s in store for me this coming month? Poker poker poker!
To start, I am going to be teaching 3 different WSOP Academies this month. The first one is a Ladies Only camp on June 5th and 6th. This will be my third year in a row kicking off the WSOP with the Ladies camp. The very next weekend I am going to be teaching an open camp (men and women) that will focus mainly on tournament strategy but, honestly, is really just a pretty complete strategic guide to No Limit Hold’em, tournaments or cash games. The folks over at WSOP Academy just like to label camps as tournaments or cash games. Personally I hate labels, so there ya go.
The camp I am most excited about is The Main Event Primer which is the big camp they put on every year right before The Main Event. New this year, you can win a VIP package to this camp right here on UltimateBet.com. http://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-promotion/shuffle-up-and-learn The package includes a private dinner with me and Phil Hellmuth!
You can find out about all these cool upcoming camps at http://www.wsopacademy.com/
Aside from all that teaching, I am going to be playing a ton of events this year starting with the $40K buy-in No Limit Hold’em event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the WSOP. I was really undecided about playing this baby because I think the turnout might be kind of low and I honestly think I am just going to be sitting there facing the best NLH players in the world. Until a few days ago I was really on the fence about this one. What swung me? TV of course! ESPN is only televising 4 events this year and I am not even eligible for one of them (the Main Event champions tournament)! So what is a girl to do? I guess sail off for $40K against great NLH players!
Wish me luck!
Tags: Celebrity Apprentice, NLH, Poker Poker Poker, tournaments, ub, WSOP
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Friday, May 22, 2009 - ProductMan
If you’ve logged on lately, you might have noticed some changes. We didn’t exactly strap on the dynamite to demolish our software and start a new. It is more like we’ve slapped on a fresh coat of paint, but what a good-looking coat of paint it is. Actually, our recent changes are all about form and function.
Lobby Button:
Did you notice that we recently changed the location of the “lobby” button in tournaments? The old button placement was in the same spot as the “bet pot” button. If you accidentally clicked the “lobby” button right when your turn came up, you could have clicked “bet pot” by mistake. We’ve moved the “lobby” button to the other side of the bar.
Tournament Pop Up:
Tournaments are great but sometimes your operating system might decide not to cooperate. If you need to restart your machine or you close the main client during tournament play, we’ve made things a little easier for you.
In our latest release, if you are playing in a tournament and the main client is closed either by accident or on purpose, all you have to do is reload the software. You won’t have to search for the tournaments that you are playing in. Your tournaments in play will pop back up when you launch the client.
Ante Games:
We’ve really upped the ante. In our new ante ring games every player at the table will have to post an ante along with the two players that are required to post blinds. Ante Up and watch the pot grow pre-flop. Look for games with the word “ante” listed next to the stakes in the lobby.
Final Table View:
We’ve introduced a slick new final table view that just might blow your mind. Want to see what all the fuss is about? You can experience our new multi-table tournament final table firsthand by competing in our guaranteed tourneys over 10K.
As always, let us know what you think.
Tags: product, tournaments
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 - Cardroom
Well it’s spring officially and that has our attention turned towards WSOP and summer … just around the corner! In the meantime while we all thaw out from a long cold winter we have launched the next series of the Kandyland satellites. This time around you can buy in with either points or cash! 33 cents is all you need to win your way to the Playboy Mansion. 33 points is all you need to win your way to maybe the best party of your life!
Check out all the info here and good luck!
The Card Room
Tags: kandyland, points, tournaments
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - Customer Service
Please notice that the “WSOP Steps” is one of our newest promotions. They consist of 9 player Sit n Go tournaments, which award tickets to other step tournaments.
The best part of this promotion is that when you win a ticket, it will be stored in your account, and you will be able to use it whenever you wish.
For example, if you win a ticket to a Step 4, you just need to choose any WSOP Step 4 and register using your ticket.
In order to use your ticket to register in the next event, you choose the step that you want to play, click on “Register”, this way the system will display a window where it automatically gives you the option to pay with: US Dollars, Tournament Dollars or your ticket; then choose the ticket, which is the third option, and you will be registered.
Do not forget to review the “Prize Info” tab located in the tourney lobby. In this tab, you can see which step you will be able to play if you placed within the firsts places.
Remember that you need to choose the same Step number as the ticket number you won; otherwise, the system will not give you the option to use your ticket.
Please feel free to read more about these events in the following link;
http://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-promotion/ten-cents-ten-steps
Please send us any question or suggestion that you may have to support@ultimatebet.com
Tags: Promotions, register for tournaments, sit n go, STEPS, tournaments, WSOP
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Saturday, February 28, 2009 - Cardroom
Ultimate bet steps have been running for a few weeks now and are already hugely popular. Did you know you can step your way to Vegas or Aruba for as little as 10 cents? Step your way to the WSOP in Vegas and if you happen to be among the first 10 people who conquer all 10 steps you’ll also win an $8500 package to the Aruba Poker Classic! Check here for more details.
We recently launched a series of single table Sit&Goes that pay the top 4 players out instead of the usual 3. The payout is as follows
1st: 50%
2nd: 24%
3rd: 13%
4th: 13%
You’ll find them under the sit&go tab. Go ahead and try some out and let us know what you think.
The Card Room
Tags: sit&go, tournaments
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