Online Poker Tournament News: UB.com Rewards $136K
A champion has been crowned in the much heralded UB.com UBOC Championship online poker tournament series. The UB.com player, CHAZ_MAN_C walked off with the grand prize of $136,177.60. Some 1,032 players took part in the big event.
It was also the first time we’ve seen poker brat Phil Hellmuth happy about finishing among the bottom quarter in this field.
“Normally I don’t get excited when I finish in 716th place in a tournament with over a thousand players, but every second of the UBOC $1 million Championship tournament was just so good,” said Team UB’s Phil Hellmuth. “I mean with a prize pool over a million bucks and a final table that made four players very rich, every second of this thing was gripping.”
The UBOC Championship No Limit Hold'em event kicked off on Sunday, August 29th at 16:00 ET. It took a grueling 12 hours and 36 minutes after the first shuffle-up-and-deal was called for poker player CHAZ_MAN_C to claim his winnings and the limited edition UBOC Championship watch.
Here were your finalists:
1.CHAZ_MAN_C - $136,177.60 (LOBBY $230,445.60
2. TOOCURIOUSSO - $95,000 (LOBBY $137,772.00)
3. VENUSIGNA - $152,000 (LOBBY $93,396.00)
4. WALLABAER - $145,000 (LOBBY $66,564)
5. APATHY123 - $56,244
6. WAMMERMOUTH - $45,924
7. MST_MORPHEUS - $35,604
8. 1GENERAL_TAO - $25,284
9. DONRIKY – $17,544
Other Notables: RAILBEGGER12 in 10th, S_DOT111 in 11th and BILLY_KOPP in 12th,all for $10,836; NIBBLER in 26th ($5,469.60); HANKDAHTANK in 31st ($4,540.80); BUZZMERCHANT in 36th( $4,540.80); PBDRUNKS in 50th, and 7TEMPEHET7($3,302.40); TRACILORDS in 69th and BRYAN_DEVO in 72nd ($2,270.40); TOOHOTOTOTROT in 80th($1,960.80)
This year for the first time, UB added a Mini-UBOC Championship event, with a $50+ 5 buy-in and $50K GTD. The parallel Mini-UBOC Championship Monster Stack NLH event ran alongside its big brother, the $1 Million GTD. Almost a contradiction in terms, the Mini-UBOC Championship attracted a mammoth 1,684 players, competing for the $84K prize pool. In the end it was JLC123 who triumphed, outlasting 1,683 of his poker peers to pocket the lucrative $17,858.82 first prize payout.
UB’s Online Championship series, August 18th through 29th, 2010, featured over $4 Million in tournament guarantees and prize money, and presented an exciting calendar of various tournament buy-ins across a range of popular poker disciplines, including No Limit Texas Hold'em, HORSE, Pot Limit Omaha, 8-Game Mix, 4-MAX, 6-MAX, Heads Up and more.
Read more online at the UB Blog: http://blog.ub.com/category/online-championship/
Real time updates were provided over on Twitter http://twitter.com/ub (UBOC will be referenced with #UBOC)
The fun is not over at UB.com. There are tournaments aplenty and chances to win hundreds and thousands of dollars daily.
