Site Review: Ultimate Bet (UB)

About Ultimate Bet

UB.com is one of the world’s top online poker sites. Formerly known as UltimateBet.com, the company was founded in 1999 with input from Phil Hellmuth (11-time WSOP bracelet winner) and Annie Duke, two of the biggest names in online poker. UB continued their commitment to evolve and in 2008, joined the powerful Cereus online poker network offering and an even greater selection of online poker games and tournaments. After the merge with Absolute, Ultimate Bet’s traffic rose to the top of the industry, ensuring that the combined Cereus network consistently ranks in the top 10. In 2009, the web site underwent a revamp, it re-branded and re-launched as UB.com in order to streamline and set up a new player experience.

Since its inception back in 1999, the best free online poker games and real money tables have been available for millions of players, offering a wide range – from free poker tournaments (freerolls) to events with large buy-ins. Whether you’re on a limited bankroll or playing in one of the dozens of daily tournaments (buy-ins for as small as $1 ranging upwards to several thousands of dollars), play is competitive at any level or you can play free poker tournaments. One of the most popular tournaments is UB.com’s weekly $200,000 guaranteed tournament that runs every Sunday. As all bigger buy-in tournaments offer really strong competition, you’re likely to meet the world’s top pros at the final table. Indeed, UB.com is a premier destination for all tournament players as it offers regular qualifiers to some of the biggest live worldwide events, such as the world poker tour WPT, european poker tour ept, Aussie Millions, World Series of Poker wsop, and the Aruba poka Classic. Not only that, but as UB continues to be home to several famous poker pro endorsers ( Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke and new addition Joe Sebok ), it’s possible that you’ll find them playing the tables occasionally in the poqueur room.

Ultimate Bet’s software is privately developed and in the past, had a reputation for being somewhat plain. But since the revamp of ultimate bet in 2009, the web site offers a more streamlined experience with numerous customization options, completely re-sizable tables (tiling and stacking buttons for multi-tabling), hot keys and options, buddy list function. UB Poker can also offer rabbit cam in some No-Limit Hold’em games, an entertaining and unique feature where players can see what the turn and the river would have been if they hadn’t folded. With crisp and clean graphics, players can experience a great play with the added bonus of being able to upload their own personal image for their avatar.

UB’s support staff are friendly and helpful and despite the fact that they only offer support via email, the quality and speed are very good.