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UBOC action: Events #7 and #8
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Wed, 2010-08-25 19:05
Ultimate Bet’s online poker championship is in full swing, offering those who miss out on the weekend guarantees the opportunity to battle it out for high prize-pools and against reputable foes. Sunday saw 2 UBOC events unfold: event #7, the $200+$15 PLO Rebuy+Add-on one, and event #8, the $1,000+$50 Deep Stack NLH 6-max one.
Event #7 drew a starting field of 246 players, who combined buy-ins for a prize-pool of $117,400. It needs to be noted that in UBOC events, players get rewarded with a UBOC watch for event wins, and with a T-shirt and a special prize of $200 for every
Ultimate Bet pro they manage to send to the rail. In event #7, there were plenty of pros involved, and none of them did particularly well, so heads were rolling and bounties were falling left and right.
Brandon Cantu, Matt Graham, Mark Kroon and Annie Duke were all involved in the action and none of them managed to make it past the money bubble. The eventual winner of the
poker tournament was ALLRGCTONUTS who bested JROMB heads-up to pick up the $30,524 top prize.
The Mini UBOC event associated with Event #7, was won by TQ23, who took down $3,335.
Event #8 saw 583 players belly up to the tables. The registrants generated a prize-pool of $583k, easily thrusting it past the guarantee which was set to $500k.
This event saw its fair share of pros too, most of whom busted out early. Not all pros were cannon-fodder though. Matt Graham made it to the money and Tiffany Michelle made a great deep-run, ending up in 5th place eventually. The winner was Jeremy Fitzpatrick. He took down $134,090 for his efforts.
DANNYILLS finished 2nd for a $81,620 reward.
The corresponding mini UBOC event went to OUDLANGER610, together with a $5,868 prize.
