UB.COM Launches 2011 WSOP Satellites

UB.COM Launches 2011 WSOP Satellites

7 March 2011

MIAMI, Florida -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- There's nothing bigger in the world of Texas Hold 'em than the World Series of Poker ("WSOP"), and the easiest way for players to make their way to Vegas to be part of that tournament rush is to win a seat online. This year UB.com, the cool crew to hang with in Sin City, is giving players a shot at millions in dollars and Main Event glory with its 2011 WSOP satellite schedule and a revamped Show Up, Get Paid promotion, set to kick up the stakes a notch, from Sunday, March 6th.

Qualify on UB by winning a 2011 WSOP* Main Event Package worth $12K, either all the way from a 10 cent STEP 1 tournament, or by crushing the competition in one of the many $500 30 buy-in Super Satellites from March 6th to July 3rd ( satellite qualifiers for as low as $10 will run for every $500 30 Super Satellite). Plus, UB will host two 25-seat Guaranteed tournaments at 16:00 ET on Sunday, June 12th and on Sunday June 26th, set to award at least 50 WSOP* Main Event packages across the pair of big seat giveaways.

"With Show Up, Get Paid we are making it even easier for our players to make their way to Vegas for the WSOP in 2011, plus there's so many different ways for players to qualify," said Team UB's Joe Sebok. "The Team UB crew will be out in full force this Summer so you never know, you may wind up chatting poker with Prahlad Friedman or sharing strategy in the UB suite with Maria Ho or Eric Baldwin. Be sure to win your seat on UB and get there!"

It makes no difference how a player wins their seat, just as long as they do it at UB.com. The online poker site is putting hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table through its Show Up, Get Paid promotion. Qualify at UB.com, turn up at the tables in Las Vegas, and take a seat in the Main Event sporting the UB brand; you automatically bank the $1,000 cash bonus even if your Aces get cracked, you suffer a bead beat and bust early on -- just for showing up, and all before the cards are even in the air.

There'll be no exiting empty-handed, because that $1,000 is guaranteed, and it keeps on growing as a player runs deeper into the action of the world's richest annual poker marathon, awarding up to $20,000 for surviving the competition long enough to make it to Day 8 of play.

There's also more money up for grabs in the form of a final table sponsorship deal to players who go deep enough to score a place in the November Nine. No matter how much longer a player survives this final fling at the felt, there's extra money to pocket, up to a cool $1 Million just by representing UB at the WSOP* final table.

Rounding out the list of Vegas promotions is a competition that makes it worthwhile for poker players to win multiple $12,000 WSOP* prize packages. The "King of Satellites" leaderboard competition will award over $10,000 in Tournament Dollars to the top 5 players who win the most Main Event seats. The extra Tournament Dollars are in addition to the $12,000 in cash that players will receive for each extra seat won.

So, there's no doubt about it, Team UB will have the edge at this year's WSOP*. Qualify for the Main Event at UB.com to experience the ultimate Texas Hold'em tournament on the world's biggest stage, and hang with some of the game's best-known pros, including Team UB Pros Joe Sebok, Prahlad Freidman, Eric Baldwin, Brandon Cantu, Adam Levy and Maria Ho.

UB.com celebrating Duke's big win

UB.com celebrating Duke's big win

29 Mar 2010

MIAMI, Florida -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- To celebrate Annie Duke's historic win at the 2010 National Heads Up Poker Championship ("NHUPC"), UB.com launches a monthly $1000+50 buy-in Heads Up tournament this Sunday, March 28th at 13:00 ET, to be hosted by Team UB's Duke. With a guaranteed prize pool of $128,000 on the table and a bounty on Duke's head, now's the time for poker players to take a swing at the champ, and walk away with a share of thousands of dollars in prize money while banking some serious bragging rights.

"I am thrilled that UB is introducing this new, monthly Heads Up event. The higher buy-in events on UB have been so successful and the market for them continues to grow," said UB's Card Room Consultant Annie Duke. "Adding this exciting heads up format to the high limit mix is a great sign that UB continues to tweak the tournament schedule to give players what they want."

Duke, the first woman ever to win the NHUPC, will host the monthly Heads Up event, scheduled on the last Sunday of every month at 13:00 ET at UB.com. Players can face-off against the newly crowned queen of the cards each month in the $128K GTD Heads Up Match in two ways: they can pony up the $1000+50 to buy in directly, participate in one of the many daily satellites with a buy-in of $100+9 starting at 16:10 ET, or try their luck in one of the cheaper qualifiers from as little as $8+.80, which kick off at 10:30 ET every day.

Take a shot at dethroning the 2010 National Heads Up Poker Champion in this Sunday's inaugural $128K GTD Heads Up Match, and the lucky player who manages to 'K.O.' Duke wins a $500+30 seat at the following Sunday's $200K Guaranteed tournament at the leading online poker site.

During April and May, to coincide with the April 18th debut of the NBC NHUPC broadcast schedule, UB will also be giving away 4 seats to each of the April 25th and May 30th $128K GTD Heads Up Matches. Two of these special satellite seats per month will be awarded via two freeroll events, with the other pair up for grabs in two $1 buy-in events. If a player qualifies for the Heads Up Match by any one of these four events, and then goes on to send Duke to the rails, they will win the usual Duke bounty of the $200K GTD tournament entry, plus pocket $1500 in tournament dollars.

Duke bested a 64-player field that was riddled with the biggest names in poker to earn her remarkable National Heads Up victory. With this year's NHUPC title and the half-million dollar prize money added to her career highlights, the UB Pro has reasserted herself as Poker's most visible woman in the game.

Online poker players looking for a piece of the Annie Duke Heads Up action should check the "Events" Tab in the UB.com tournament lobby, with qualifiers listed in the "Satellites" Tab.