Ultimate Bet is known in the online poker world for offering top tournament structures and user-friendly software. The tournament schedule was made by none other than poker pro Annie Duke. Accordingly, the site boasts structures that tend to favor skilled players, including deep starting chip stacks and relatively gradual blind level increases. The site has also become much more creative in its promotional offering, including introducing a fleet of bounty tournaments. Duke and the “Poker Brat,” Phil Hellmuth, make up the public faces behind Ultimate Bet, one of the largest online poker rooms in the world.
The site hosts the Aruba Poker Classic, a live tournament held in the tropical paradise, each year. In fact, the Aruba Poker Classic was once a stop on the World Poker Tour. For much of the year, Ultimate Bet focuses on sending its players to either the Classic or the World Series of Poker. If you’ve ever dreamed of playing in high-stakes live tournaments, Ultimate Bet is the site for you. Moreover, UB hosts a weekly $200,000 Guaranteed tournament that comes with a $215 price tag.
Its software is among the cleanest in the industry. Tables do not include distracting avatars. Several backgrounds are available, including a solid black color, which makes focusing on dominating your poker table a cinch. The Ultimate Buddy system allows you to see where your friends (and favorite fish) are at all times.