On Sunday, June 6th, the virtual felts of the CEREUS Network site UB.com will come alive with a special 25-Seat Guarantee to send players to the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. The tournament begins promptly at 4:00pm ET and comes with a price tag of $530.
The cost to get into the Main Event in Las Vegas, which last year featured a top prize of $8.5 million, is $10,000, making Saturday’s tournament on UB.com quite a bargain. The packages are each worth $12,000 and qualifiers for the $530 buy-in event begin at $11. The tournament on June 6th serves as a prelude to a massive 50-Seat Guarantee two weeks later, which comes with the same $530 price tag. The 50-Seat Guarantee, which will play out on June 20th, also begins at 4:00pm ET on UB.com.
The 25 players who qualify for the 2010 WSOP Main Event this weekend will be eligible to reap the benefits of UB.com’s “Show Up, Get Paid” promotion. The USA-friendly online poker site will pump money into a central prize pool based on the number of players who qualify through UB.com and turn out to the Nevada desert. Up to $5,000 per player can be added.
Three-quarters of the “Show Up, Get Paid” prize pool will be divided equally among players who take to the felts of the Main Event donning UB.com gear. The other 25% will be divided among players who cash in poker’s most prestigious tournament. If nobody who qualifies through UB.com cashes, then the entire prize pool will be distributed to those who turn out. At the time of writing, 74 players have qualified, meaning that the jackpot stands at $370,000 assuming every player headed to Las Vegas.
Players who have qualified through UB.com for the Main Event are featured on its website. Several notable names grace the list, including Jeremy “thechemist83” Gaubert, who hails from Louisiana. Also winning his way in through the CEREUS Network is Jeff “HB_HITMAN” Anderson. Other players who have qualified for the 2010 WSOP Main Event through UB.com include Dave “doubledave22” D’Alesandro, Darren “darrenelias” Elias, and Jason “JaspudUF” Lee, who recently played poker with George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America” alongside Annie Duke, Phill Hellmuth, and Full Tilt pro Steve Begleiter.
In other CEREUS Network news, the June 13th installment of “Second Sundays” will feature a $10 charity poker tournament benefiting the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association. Former “Poker2Nite” host Joe Sebok will serve as the event’s host and UB.com will match all funds raised. The entire prize pool plus the matched donations will go to charity.
Sebok was looking forward to the opportunity to give back to the community. The PokerRoad personality commented in a press release, “There is nothing more amazing than being able to give back and help support causes that work to defeat a disease like Tay-Sachs. Anything done to benefit those stricken with it and their families I consider a privilege.”
Prizes for participants will include $200,000 Guaranteed seats (valued at $215 each) to the top 10 finishers. The champion of the Second Sunday tournament also takes home a UB.com swag bag valued at $100. Players who want to donate, but are unable to set aside time for a full-scale tournament can send money to the player account “CHARITIES” on UB.com. The first name for the account is, appropriately, “CHARITY.”
The CEREUS Network’s Second Sunday events take place on the second Sunday of every month. Visit UB.com and Absolute Poker for more details.
