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UBOC 5 set to kick off
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Wed, 2010-08-18 14:25
These days, online poker tournament series seem to follow each other in quick succession. Barely has
Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS wound down, Ultimate Bet is readying the dish for the online poker players who’ve gotten used to the continuous excitement. The site’s own online poker series, the UBOC (
Ultimate Bet Online Poker Championship) kicks off today. The Series will feature no fewer than 20 events, and for those for whom the buy-ins featured by the various events may be too big, a mini UBOC series will run too, parallel with the big one.
Event #1 takes place today. People interested in playing in this event need to have an Ultimate Bet or
Absolute Poker account. The buy-in is $300+$20, and the game is NL Holdem featuring $30 bounties and a guaranteed prize-pool of $200,000. This is of course only the tip of the iceberg. Event #2, which runs on the 18th as well, features a buy-in of $250+$17. This poker tournament features a mix of PL Holdem and PL Omaha and players will do battle for a share of a $100k prize-pool. The series will unfold this way to August 29th when the UBOC Championship Monster Stack event ($1,000+$50) will wrap up the action.
In the meantime, the mini UBOC will keep smaller stacked players busy. The series kicks of on the 18th with a $30+$3 NL Holdem event, featuring $5 bounties and a guaranteed prize-pool of $20,000. Make no mistake about it, despite the smaller buy-ins, these events will be wildly popular and their prize-pools will be extremely generous too.
The last event of the Mini UBOC will be the Monster Stack, featuring a buy-in of $50+$5, featuring a guaranteed prize-pool of $50k. If you do not have a UB account yet, it is time you got one. Sign up now and make this an August to remember.
