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Ultimate Bet hosts its biggest tournament on Sunday. This past Sunday was no exception: Ultimate Bet had 999 players engage in a tough battle for big prizes. Ninety-nine places were paid, and at the end of the tournament, DONKEYWRENN increased his bankroll by $44,660. Second place was taken by CHIPNACHRRRR; he took home $26,700, and… Read more »

The best-looking addition to the Ultimate Bet pro team is definitely Liv Boeree, who is now part of the Ultimate Team after moving from Absolute Poker. She has been seen at the Seven Deuce tables recently, and she will be participating in the Asian Poker Tour Macau next week. The events started on August 12… Read more »

Poker players have a large selection of poker rooms where they can play; they also have plenty of tournaments to choose from; some make a good return for their money but not all of them, since on some tournaments the player field is tougher than others. Now that the FTOPS are underway at FTP and… Read more »

It is tough being a beautiful woman in a man’s sport; many women have tried to pursue professional poker but few have succeeded. UltimateBet’s new professional, Liv Boeree, is one of the few to make it, establishing herself as an important figure in the poker community. She broke on to the tournament poker scene when… Read more »

This past Sunday Ultimate Bet hosted its $530 Super Satellite for their 8th Annual Aruba Poker Classic tournament that will be held October 3-10th. Read more »

Over the years, online poker tournament payout structures have differed greatly. Some are very steep paying only 10% of the field; some are much flatter, paying up to 25%. There are events that only payout the final table, and remarkably there are even winner take all tournaments. However, UltimateBet is hosting a $5,000 Freeroll tournament… Read more »

Adrenaline junkies and Phil Hellmuth fans must be rejoicing, as the wildest variant of Texas Hold’em will be available on the Cereus network’s sites Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. The Seven-Deuce tables should start operating at 5:00pm ET on Sunday, August 2nd. Seven-Deuce is essentially a prop-bet that took hold of the Hold’em psyche – trying… Read more »

Ultimate Bet will be hosting a Deep Stack tournament on August the 1st at 5:30pm ET; the prize pool has a guaranteed minimum of $100K, $25K of which will be paid to the first place.  The direct buy-in is $300 + $20, but satellites can be entered for as little as $1.50 . Ultimate Bet… Read more »

Ultimate Bet will be hosting two $30+$3 buy-in No Limit Hold’em rebuy tournaments, each with a $15K Guaranteed prize pool tonight at 7pm, and 10pm EST. The winners will take home $7,500, the runners up $4,500 and the third place finishers will earn $3,000 for their efforts. The tournament will have plenty of play, with… Read more »

Ultimate Bet’s Blog Tournament has proven a great success over the last 7 months, rallying up to 2000 players for the blogger-only freeroll. This has prompted Ultimate Bet to increase the prize pool to $1,000 and run a special edition: the Delicious Blog Freeroll. Delicious is a well known social bookmarking site that allows users… Read more »

Ultimate Bet has enhanced its software with two main improvements: the use of “username” instead of “nickname” and an improved and more secure P2P transfer system. Users who got confused with the difference between “username” and “nickname” are bound to have an easier time now: the word nickname has been completely discontinued at UB, so… Read more »