2009 UltimateBet Online Championship $3M Poker Series & Satellites Announced
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UltimateBetPoker announced Monday the release of the 2009 UBOC (UltimateBetPoker.com Online Championship) poker series schedule, including satellite competitions awarding seats in the 2009 UBOC Main Event.
In its 3rd installment, next year’s UBOC Series will feature a 22-event schedule including two $1 million guaranteed prize pools, and more than $3 million in overall prize money. From January 9-18, 2009, UltimateBet will host the online poker championship, with satellites having already started Monday, September 15th.
Ten of the twenty-two events are scheduled as “UBOC Mini-Series” tournaments, designed to parallel all regular UBOC events, with the exception of the two $1m GTDs. Mini-Series UBOC events will feature a 1/10th buy-in of the actual event it is set to mirror, with a 1/10th prize pool up for grabs. This gives everyone at UltimateBetPoker, regardless of bankroll size and experience, an equal chance at profiteering from the extraordinary online poker series.
“This is unbelievably massive,” commented UltimateBetPoker’s cardroom consultant, Annie Duke. “In keeping with our commitment to delivering more of what online poker players demand, we’re raising the stakes in our 3rd UBOC series by throwing over $3 million in guarantees into the mix.”
Though UBOC-2 was not nearly as large as the upcoming 3rd installment, Maria Nuccia felt no disappointment when she took down the UBOC-2 Main Event for a heavenly 1st place prize of $168,450.
Daily satellites to UBOC-3 start as low as $3 + $.30. Visit UltiamteBetPoker.com for a complete schedule of 2009 UBOC-3 events and ongoing satellites with seats in UltimateBetPoker’s massive online poker series up for grabs.
If you are not yet ready to try the real money satellite events, you can practice for free at UltimateBetPoker.net!
Jacobs Wins PokerStars WCOOP High Roller Heads-Up Event #19
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The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) at Poker Stars.com is well underway and the most recent congratulations go to Steven “stevesbets” Jacobs for pocketing $560,000 as the winner of Event #19, a High Roller Heads-Up competition.
Jacobs, notoriously known in the online poker world for his extreme verbal rants at the tables, is arguably one of the most feared online poker players at PokerStars.com. Taking on a field of 64 participants who paid the excessive $25,000 to take part in the event, Jacobs was among some of the best pros in poker.
Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, Gavin Griffin, Barry Greenstein and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier all made a run for the $1.6m guaranteed prize pool in the WCOOP high roller event, paying only the top 8 finishers. Of these exceptionally talented pros, only Bertrand Grospellier (2nd) and Gavin Griffin (4th) would see a piece of the prize.
“ElkY” Grospellier and “stevesbets” Jacobs went heads-up at the final table to battle it out for the top prize and the sought after WCOOP Bracelet, but in the end, as the clock ticketed towards 1:30 in the morning on September 15th, Jacobs would take the upper hand, the bracelet and the triumphant earnings of more than half a million dollars ($560,000).
PokerStars WCOOP Event #19 ($25k Heads-Up) Paid Finishers
1st - stevesbets - $560,000 (United States)
2nd - ElkY - $320,000 (United Kingdom)
3rd - zivziv - $160,000 (Israel)
4th - GavinGriffin - $160,000 (United States)
5th - LadyMaverick - $100,000 (United States)
6th - VictorRamdin - $100,000 (United States)
7th - PAW717 - $100,000 (United States)
8th - brianm15 - $100,000 (United States)
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Bodog Poker Sunday $100k GTD Goes To “woodhawk”
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Though times have been rough for BodogLive Poker recently, the online poker room continues to host its weekly $100k Guarantee, awarding a minimum of $23,600 to the 1st place finisher. Last Sunday, that lucky and talented online poker player turned out to be “woodhawk”, who outlasted the field to take down the $100k GTD tournament.
I would have to go a very long way back into the record books to find out the last time BodogLife.com actually attracted enough players to its biggest weekly event to cover the prize pool. This week, a field of 603 participants created a nearly 40% overlay – excellent news for the tournament’s participants, but not so appreciated by management of Bodog Poker, who had to toss another $39,700 into the purse.
The top 90 finishers would each see a piece of the money bubble, but none more so than the final tablists, which included 22 year old “Minesony” of Australia – 1st place winner of nearly $6.4k a few weeks ago at Full Tilt Poker’s $28k GTD (not bad for a $24 buy-in).
The aforementioned talents of “Minesony” took a 3rd place ($9,100) exit from the Bodog Poker tournament tables, leaving “woodhawk” and “tkids” to battle it out in heads-up. It was a decent fight, but “woodhawk” eventually overcame his opponent to claim the 1st place prize of $23,600. The 2nd place finish earned “tkids” a respectable $13,600.
BodogPoker Sunday $100k GTD final Table Results
1st - woodhawk ($23,600)
2nd - tkids ($13,600)
3rd - Minesony ($9,100)
4th - Beer and Poker ($7,000)
5th - JanM ($5,700)
6th - the_sickness ($4,500)
7th - UFPokerStar ($3,300)
8th - JACKOFHOGS ($2,200)
9th - RooterGuy13 ($1,300)
A Day Of Bolstered Guarantees At Full Tilt Poker
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In the wake of Full Tilt Poker’s masterfully executed Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS IX), which came to its conclusion last weekend, the regularly scheduled Sunday tournaments have returned with a reverberating “bada-boom!”
The Full Tilt Poker Sunday $750k Guarantee, Sunday Mulligan and Sunday Brawl each saw prize pools bolstered - some more significantly than others – by excessive player participation. The professional opinion (my own, that is) would be that the outbreak of major victories erupting from the FTOPS IX series has simply worked to increase the enthusiasm of the online poker room’s multiplicity of members.
Starting with the Sunday $750k GP at Full Tilt Poker, a field of 3,752 jumped the prize pool to $750,400. (Okay, before you laugh, I did say “some more than others!”) Regardless of the size of the GP’s boost, FullTilt Poker has to be very pleased with the lack of overlays, and the participants have little to complain about – 522 of them would be eating a slice of that pie by the time it was all said and done.
In the end, it was “ship Hamilton” - the 4th place winner in last week’s Sunday Mulligan – defeating “6speed” in heads-up action to take the top prize of $132,858. 6speed earned a hefty $80,293 for the 2nd place finish.
www.FullTilt.com Sunday $750k GP Final Table Results
1st - ship hamilton ($132,858)
2nd - 6speed ($80,293)
3rd - Asiandude7 ($52,528)
4th - hallebeary ($41,422)
5th - WhoAteMyShorts ($31,067)
6th - ChAzZz18 ($23,037)
7th - Ronaldinho ($17,259)
8th - TollBoothBandit ($13,507)
9th - Carl Bildt ($10,055)
Moving on, Full Tilt Poker hosted its Sunday Brawl bounty-style competition with guaranteed prize pool of $250k. This GP received a much more substantial boost as 1,811 entries raised the purse by more than $100k to top off at $362,200.
The top 189 players would finish in the money bubble, but it was “head2782” pocketing the 1st place prize of $74,613 for ousting “adeeeum” in heads-up.
Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl Final Table Results
1st - head2782 ($74,613)
2nd - adeeeum ($49,259)
3rd - -bentonaces- ($36,582)
4th - Mattmys ($28,614)
5h - ErikGeller ($21,370)
6th - jbock034 ($14,850)
7th - ginzorella ($9,055)
8th - payems ($6,157)
9th - whatariver1 ($4,346)
Last but not least, Full tilt Poker hosted its Sunday Mulligan, a $150k GP that rose to $210,800 as 1,054 entrants converged on the tables. Of those, 99 players would share in the prize pool, but none so happily as “Michael Craig”, 1st place winner and proud recipient of $47,430. The 2nd place prize of $30,566 went to “lilfishy897”.
Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan Final Table Results
1st - Michael Craig ($47,430)
2nd - lilfishy897 ($30,566)
3rd - magikstick8 ($22,661)
4th - Welund ($17,391)
5th - rayisgood ($13,175)
6th - holdplz ($9,486)
7th - aconsuma ($6,324)
8th - Marfred Kaltz ($4,743)
9th - papadougal ($3,373)
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