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UB.com Seven Deuce

Friday, October 15th, 2010

UB.com’s “Seven Deuce” tables are turning poker upside down. The way it works is pretty simple: if you win a hand with a seven and a two, you win an additional side pot. But, as top poker players know, this is much easier said than done. 7-2 is the worst hand in poker and it will take a lot to win with these hands. The craziness begins when people start bluffing to try and scare others out of the hand so that their weak hand can take down the pot and the side bet. This starts a psychological war; is the person bluffing because they want the side pot? Or are they playing like they are bluffing so that I will call and they really have a strong hand that they are trapping me with? These tables promise to deliver more action than normal tables because of this.

When you join a Seven Deuce table, you put a portion of your money into a side pot. If you leave the table before there is a winner, your side bet is returned to you. If however, someone wins with a 7-2, they are awarded the entire side pot, and the process starts over again.

UB.com has become one of the top online gaming rooms because of attractions like Seven Deuce. Their Rai$e program is also top-notch. For players that spend a lot of time playing poker online, this is something you do not want to miss. With items like free tournament entries, play against professionals, and VIP treatment, Rai$e is another revolutionary feature from UB. Although it takes quite a while to reach the top of the five levels of play, it is worth it for the serious poker player. You can even start earning interest on the money in your poker account, a thing almost unheard of in the vast majority of poker rooms.

Every Sunday, there is an opportunity to play in one of the biggest tournaments out there. With the $200,000 guaranteed payout tournament, you can play against some of the best online players out there. There are daily satellite tournaments to enter this big one starting with as little as $1.10.

Ultimate Bet Cancels Aruba Poker Classic

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Ultimate Bet Cancels One Big Live Event, Schedules Another

UB.com Poker TournamentsUltimate Bet Poker, now going by the cuter and catchier moniker UB.com (or UB.net depending on where they’re advertising) has cancelled a major land-based poker tournament event that it had been scheduled to sponsor and for which it was running satellites to award free entries.

That now-cancelled event is…was the 2010 Aruba Poker Classic. A disappointment to some it may be, but UB did create the event, and as they say (whoever they are)—the hand that giveth can also be the hand that taketh away.

When explaining why they cancelled the event, UB representatives said they were trying to grow into a larger poker site and that the resources going toward this land-based event could maybe be put to better use bolstering the site’s online presence.

Ironically, in stark contrast to that statement, Ultimate Bet is now co-sponsoring with the newly launched Poker Pro Canada magazine the inaugural Four Aces Poker Pro Canada Classic, to be held April 15 – 18 in Montreal, Canada. Sounds like they’re trying to bolster their Canadian presence as well.

In the way of increased online poker offerings UB.com will also be running its popular UB Online Championship two times a year instead of just once. The site is also working on establishing a monthly $500,000 guaranteed tournament with the hopes of building it into a $1 million guaranteed.

Ultimate Bet currently boasts as one of its sponsored pros the recent winner of the 2010 NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship, Annie Duke. Phil Hellmuth, the other poker legend who represents the site, is also making quite a showing in 2010, making at least one major land-based tournament’s final table.