UltimateBet

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UltimateBet was an online poker room that was founded in 2001 and was one of the ten largest virtual card rooms in the world. It was operated by Tokwiro Enterprises .

Every year UltimateBet hosted the Aruba Poker Classics , which was part of the World Poker Tour for four years . In 2005, Freddy Deeb won the tournament and $ 1 million in prize money. Previous winners include Eric Brenes in 2004, Erick Lindgren in 2003 and Juha Helppi in 2002.

representatives

Like many of the major poker rooms, UltimateBet had some well-known players under theirs. These included bracelet winners Annie Duke , Antonio Esfandiari , Dave Ulliott and Jennifer Tilly . The contract with the poker player Phil Hellmuth , perhaps best known among UltimateBet players, was terminated at the end of 2010.

offer

UltimateBet did not specialize in a particular variant of poker, but offered some of the best known. These included Texas Hold'em , Omaha and Seven Card Stud High and High / Low as well as various lowball variants. In addition to this, UltimateBet offered the relatively less common variant Royal Hold'em until July 5, 2007 . UltimateBet also had the mixed variants HORSE and HOSE on offer.

Fraud scandal

On May 29, 2008 UltimateBet admitted that between March 7, 2006 and December 3, 2007, a player named 'Nionio' ​​had gained an unfair advantage by taking advantage of a security breach and becoming superuser and his hidden cards Opponent could see. The same had happened a few months earlier on the poker site Absolute Poker, also operated by Tokwiro Enterprises . The scandals were exposed when the exceptionally high win rates of the players concerned had aroused suspicion. Former World Series of Poker winner and former UltimateBet owner Russ Hamilton is also suspected of being involved in the scandal .

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  1. ↑ About Ultimate Bet - Your Poker Destination Since 1999. Archived from the original on May 29, 2010 ; accessed on May 31, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Software Updates - UB Poker. Archived from the original on April 30, 2010 ; accessed on May 31, 2013 .
  3. ↑ ULTIMATEBET ISSUES STATEMENT REGARDING UNFAIR PLAY. Tokwiro Enterprises, May 29, 2008, archived from the original on January 31, 2009 ; accessed on May 31, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Mike Brunker: Online poker cheating blamed on employee. AbsolutePoker.com says 'geek' hacked system to prove it could be done. In: msnbc.com. October 19, 2007, accessed May 31, 2013 .
  5. ↑ http://throwfar.googlepages.com/UBScandal.htm
  6. ↑ Dan Cypra: Russ Hamilton Appears to be Tied to UB superuser scandal. In: PocketFives . July 13, 2008, accessed May 31, 2013 .

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