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UltimateBet.com’s $2,000,000 online poker championship series this past weekend catapulted the prize pools of the final four UBOC events beyond their initial guarantees to an impressive $1,218,300 in prize money. This included an $807,000 grand finale that paid out $181,575 to the winner.
On Friday, December 14th at 8pm ET, UltimateBet guaranteed $100,000 in Event #10, a 6-seated No Limit Hold’em tournament. 320 players logged on and played in this first online poker event, inflating the prize pool by 60% to $160,000. It was déjà vu on Saturday at 2pm ET when Event #11’s final prize pool totaled $101,300, over $26,000 more than what was initially guaranteed.
The UltimateBet Online Championship’s main attraction, a $750,000 Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em tournament, began Sunday night at 5pm ET. The total prize pool eclipsed the guarantee by $57,000. A total of 807 players claimed a seat in the $1000+50 online Texas Hold’em tournament at 5pm ET, pumping up the final prize pool to $807,000. The final table of the online poker tournament was streamed live on UltimateBet's web site.
An exhausting 10 hours and 32 minutes after the first shuffle-up-and-deal was called, an online poker player with the moniker PSMONEY topped off his impressive chip stack with the remainder of his opponents’ dwindling chips and was declared the winner. For his victory, PSMONEY has secured an impressive $181,575. A total of 90 players—more than 10% of the players in the tournament—walked away with a profit, including NEVERLOVEDU and BOSSMENLO, the second and third place finishers who left the online poker table with $108,945 and $74,647.50 respectively.
The UltimateBet.com Online Championship kicked off on December 7th. Over the course of 10 days, the online poker site hosted 13 guaranteed online poker events including 6-Seat No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha, No Limit Hold’em, Limit Hold’em, and Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better tournaments.
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