Back to Back Final Tables at UB

Today's tourney only had 79 entrants, but I was able to beat 76 of them. The deck hit me in the mouth early at the final table but unfortunately I kept gettting outkicked once we were down to three and then found top pair up against an over pair on the hand that knocked me out.
It has been a pretty good run lately. In four out of the last six tournaments I played, I have cashed and have two final tables that were both top three finishes. I should have one the one I made it to heads-up play, but I am pleased with how things are going in the tournaments now. This was definitely a good way to start off the weekend.

Good luck at the tables everyone.

Peace and Love all around

Congrats to Jennifear!

Jennifear aka PunkinBear won the $120 Tourney on UB yesterday to the very James Bondish tune of $7,007. She beat out 244 other players to win the tourney.

Congrats Jen, very well played!

Jennifear is also a fantastic teacher who can really help your game. Visit her site Jennifear's Poker Palace here.

You can also read a conversation with Jennifear from May, 2008 here.

Wretchy pwns UB $200 MTT

Last night/early this morning, the Wretched one, Dan "Wretchy" Martin, took down the $200+15 80K guaranteed tournament on UltimateBet. For his win, Wretchy collected a cool 20,000.

Another very impressive win for Wretchy. He has won major tournaments at each big site still open to play for American players.

WP GG and Congrats sir.

UltimateBet signs Eric "Rizen" Lynch

On the heels of hiring online legend Johnny Bax, UltimateBet has made another excellent hire by signing poker star Eric "Rizen" Lynch to be a part of team UB.

I have been impressed with the recent moves by UltimateBet to rehabilitate the site with these two hires and the increased involvement of Annie Duke in the tournament offering.

Hopefully these are just the first steps in a concerted effort by UB to regain it's former status as an elite site.

Read more about the deal with Rizen here

UltimateBet report released

The report on the UltimateBet superuser scandal was released today.

Great job by Nat Arem in compiling info.


You can read Nat's post at Pocketfives.com here

You can visit Nat's blog here

Online Poker Legend Cliff Josephy joins UB

Online poker legend, World Series of Poker bracelet winner, and former Number 1 ranked online player Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy has been added to lineup of poker pros at online poker site UlitmateBet.com.

UltimateBet has added a great asset to the company and look for this to really help UltimateBet increase the prestige of the company.

Read more about it at Pocketfives.com

Ship it to Mathclub!

Mathclub, playing under his FullTilt alias of ktpie, took down the Fifty+Fifty tourney on FullTilt last night. He beat 973 other players to win a very nice prize of $9,555.00. Very good job by the King of New Zealand poker.



On UlitmateBet, Mathclub made the final table in the UltimateBet Bounty 10K Guaranteed, finishing 4th out of 199 for a nice score of $850.00.
Great Job sir!

UltimateBet's new tournament schedule

UltimateBet was my first site. I have been playing tournaments there for almost four years. I played there before the software change drove away a ton of business and have stayed there while the customer support and management have, at times, seemed to have been trying to get rid of the rest.

UltimateBet recently decided to let Poker Pro Annie Duke revise the tournament schedule for the site. One of the most attractive features of the site, and often cited as the attractive feature of the site, is the tournament structure. I will give credit to UB for not messing with the structure. What I can't understand is how the tournaments which had been attracting a steady increase in players on a nightly basis can just be moved. If you want to add new ones fine, but keep the ones that were drawing well. It appears that the lower buy-in bounty tournaments have been elminated, moved to a different time, or will be offered on a less than nightly basis. It makes no sense. When I first started at UB almost 4 years ago, there wer always between 400-700 players in a nightly $5 tournament without a guarantee that ran around 9:00 pm EST. During a previous tournament schedule change, this tourney was moved to an earlier time. After the software "update", these tournaments were lucky to get 200 entrants.
Before the most recent update, there as a $5.50 tournament which started around the same time as a $6.50 bounty tournament. There were always 300-400 more players in the bounty tournament.
I will have more on this later as I try to find tournaments at my level on a place I have long considered to be my home site and I have always continued to play there in spite of the pleading of many friends who play online. Now I'm beginning to think that they may have been right all along. Peace.