Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - smokin_aces
Tonight is the Twitter Up For Africa Freeroll, and we have BIG news.
Although we didn’t hit the goal set out initially (which was to get 2000 new Twitter followers), we’re so grateful for the outpouring of support that we’re still going to pay out as if we had hit the goal. Half the money goes to charity so it’s a great cause!
We started with 1500 followers and now just over 2 weeks later we’re at 2600. Pretty great!
To be clear:
WE ARE STILL HAPPY TO GIVE $1000 TO ANTE UP FOR AFRICA AND $1000 IN PRIZES TO TONIGHT’S FREE ROLL.
So let everyone know this event is gonna be huge!
Password is tufa3500
Here’s the Twitter Up For Africa payout structure:
* 1st Place - Seat at the $200K Guaranteed ($215 Value)
* 2nd Place – Seat at the $200K Guaranteed ($215 Value)
* 3rd Place – Seat at the Sniper 30K ($130 Value)
* 4th Place – Seat at the $15K Guaranteed ($55 Value)
* 5th to 38th Place – Seat at the Saturday $7K Guaranteed ($5.50 Value)
* 39th to 74th Place – Seat at the Sunday $7K Guaranteed ($5.50 Value)
Keep those followers coming and see you tonight in the Twitter Up For Africa freeroll!
GL
Aces
Tags: Twitter Freerolls, Twitter Up For Africa
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Monday, July 13, 2009 - smokin_aces
Please help us reach our Twitter goal!
Just over 48 hours left until the Twitter Up For Africa freeroll. You can read all the details here.
We set an ambitious goal of trying to get 2000 new Twitter followers during the lead up to this tournament. If we hit that goal, we’ll give $1 for each new follower to the Twitter Up For Africa pot. From there, $1000 would go to Annie Duke’s amazing charity Ante Up For Africa, and $1000 would go towards the payout structure for the freeroll.
This morning we officially got our 1000th new follower during the timeframe of this event which is absolutely amazing. There are a lot you out there who can share credit for this feat, and we all thank you.
Our challenge now is to come together in one final push towards glory. Please take a second to email blast your friends, retweet us on Twitter, text your contacts and anything else you can do to help us reach this goal and give to charity and the freeroll.
We need your help and so do the people of Darfur!
The password for the Twitter Up For Africa tournament is tufa3500. Get your friends to follow @ultimate_bet on Twitter, and come play in this amazing freeroll!
GL
Aces
Tags: Annie Duke, Ante Up For Africa, freerolls, Twitter Freerolls, Twitter Up For Africa
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 - smokin_aces
A Freeroll With A Higher Purpose
As poker players and fans of competition in general, we like to make things fun. In response to the overwhelming and continued support of the Ultimate Bet community and beyond, we’re launching our most exciting Twitter event yet. It’s not just any Freeroll tournament. This one has what you might call, a higher purpose. 
Remember the Follow Friday Freeroll? Fun right? Well this next one makes that look like 3 Card Monty.
The next Ultimate Bet Twitter Freeroll is happening right here on Wednesday July 15 2009. To make the payout extra sweet we’re asking for your help. We NEED to reach 3500 Twitter followers by the time this Twitter Freeroll happens. We’re currently at 1500, so we need your help to get 2000 new followers.
For each new Twitter follower we get between now and then, we’ll add $1 to the pot. If we hit the goal of 3500 Twitter followers by July 15, you will have helped us increase the total pot to $2000. To make us all feel extra special, we’re going to donate $1000 of the cash to our good friend Annie Duke’s charity Ante Up For Africa. The other $1000 will be used to create the payout structure for the tournament. If we hit that goal, the Freeroll payout structure will reward EVERYONE who finishes from 1st to 74th. WHAT? 74TH! That’s right, it’s getting crazy.
Potential Twitter Up For Africa Payout Structure (It’s ‘potential’ because we need to hit 3500 followers for this to pay out)
- 1st Place - Seat at the $200K Guaranteed ($215 Value)
- 2nd Place – Seat at the $200K Guaranteed ($215 Value)
- 3rd Place – Seat at the Sniper 30K ($130 Value)
- 4th Place – Seat at the $15K Guaranteed ($55 Value)
- 5th to 38th Place – Seat at the Saturday $7K Guaranteed ($5.50 Value)
- 39th to 74th Place – Seat at the Sunday $7K Guaranteed ($5.50 Value)
But remember, this is a contest that has us all working together to increase our Twitter followers to 3500 by July 15, the date of the Twitter Up For Africa tournament. When we hit that target WE ALL WIN, and so does one of the world’s finest charitable organizations. So help us out and we can ALL win TOGETHER, while literally helping to make the world a better place.
There will be many more updates to follow, but for now, spread the word on your blogs, Twitter pages, Facebooks, Myspaces, text and email your friends, forward this blog post and help us connect with more amazing people like you.
Here’s the link to this post:
http://blog.ultimatebet.com/2009/06/twitter-up-for-africa
Here’s the link to the Ultimate Bet twitter page:
http://www.twitter.com/ultimate_bet
If you don’t yet use Twitter, this is the reason you’ve been waiting for to join the UB Twitter party! It’s so easy to get an account! Just sign up and then ‘follow’ @ultimate_bet
The countdown begins NOW. Oh and look, we’re at 1516 followers at last check. That’s already $16 in the pot!!
But remember, we need to hit that target for all this good stuff to happen.
So Let’s TWITTER UP FOR AFRICA!
The code for this tournamant is tufa3500
GL!
Tags: Ante Up For Africa, freeroll, Twitter, Twitter Up For Africa, ultimate_bet
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