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Royal Flush Jackpot

Omaha players looking to download free poker should play at UB. They introduced a Royal Flush promo that might remind you of a bad beat jackpot. Basically there is a progressive Royal Flush Jackpot, and players receive cash bonuses for hitting royal flushes. Pretty cool way to reward someone for the most awesome hand in poker.

If you have tried using the PartyPoker bonus code, you might have tried playing on the bad beat jackpot tables. Someone losing a hand with quad 8s or better wins 50% of the jackpot, and a percentage is also given to the other players that participated in the bad beat hand. The Royal Flush promo works in similar fashion. The royal flush winner receives 50% of the jackpot, 25% goes to the players at the table where the royal flush was hit, and the other quarter is divided amongst other people playing at Jackpot tables at the same limits. These bonuses give you more chances to rake in the dough than at some of the other US poker sites!

Keep in mind that only 65% of the jackpot is awarded when someone hits a royal flush. The remaining 25% and 10% go to the next Jackpot and UB administration respectively. If you have experience with a PokerStars bonus code, you might dislike that UB receives a fraction of the jackpot, but that is the price we pay for these kinds of promotions.

To be eligible for the Jackpot, you need to sit down at a Royal Flush Jackpot table. Free poker no downloads is a feature of UB, so you do not even need to download a program to give these games a shot. The Jackpot is built up by taking 50 cents from every raked hand at these tables.

There are a couple other conditions to keep in mind for winning the Royal flush Jackpot on this Mac poker site. The Royal Flush hand must have at least four participants, and the hand must go to show down. If you were sitting out when the Royal was won, you will not receive a share of the winnings. If two Royal Flush Jackpot tables get dealt a royal flush at the same time, the table that started the hand first will win the Jackpot. I think I would hide behind my slot machine download for some time if I lost the Jackpot to another royal flush hand that started mere seconds before mine. I would be so mad!

UB is a great place to play Omaha if you don’t want to play the standard Texas Holdem games. It is a good sign that you are not forced to download PokerStars to get action at Omaha tables. It is good for PokerStars to have a little competition!

UB TLB

If you want to play tournament poker, it’s a great idea to download free poker on the Internet. Pretty much every major poker site has tournament leaderboards, so today I will tell you about the ones found on UB. There is one big MTT leaderboard and three smaller SnG leaderboards, and there is cash to be won on each leaderboard.

Like on the other best US poker sites, you will be ranked based on a points total. Players get leaderboard points depending on where they place in a tournament and the tournament’s prize pool. The same formula is used for both MTTs and SnGs.

Like many of the best Mac poker sites, the site has split the MTT leaderboard into weekly, monthly, and yearly divisions. Your top 10 MTT results are taken into account for the weekly leaderboard, and first place receives $1,000 cash. The monthly leaderboard takes your best 20 results, and there is a $14,000 prize pool for the top 10. Finishing in first place would net you $6,500. Lastly, the yearly leaderboard takes your top 100 results, just like the PokerStars Bonus code. The top 50 players get entered into an exclusive $36k freeroll. Cash prizes are awarded to the top 10. Both 1st and 2nd place also win $10,000 WSOP Main Event entries!

If you feel inexperienced on Mac Poker sites, it might be wise to give SnG leaderboards a shot first. They are more friendly to new players since there are 3 separate divisions for different buy-in amounts. The Diamond division is for buy-ins less than $20. The total weekly prize pool for Diamond is $1.5k and the prize pool for the month is $5k. If you play between $21 and $50 buy-ins, you fall into the Heart division. The Heart division has $3,000 weekly and $7,000 monthly. If you are so serious about poker that you quit playing Internet slots, you might be the perfect candidate for winning the Spade division for stakes over $51. This division awards $6,000 every week and $10,000 every month.

Placing well on leaderboards is a great way to make a tournament player more ambitious and excited to play. It might be a good idea to view a number of poker videos to become even better at the game. It will be worth it if you can finish in first place!

Adam "Roothlus" Levy

Those looking to download free poker will be considering UB, so I would like to introduce another UB pro, Adam Levy. Levy will be better known to online players as “Roothlus” as he uses that alias on all the major US friendly poker sites. The 28 year old player was born in Flushing, New York and he currently lives in Orlando, Florida. Before he became a professional poker player, he was a student and used to wait tables.

Levy has an impressive $3 million in cashes on the best online poker sites. An impressive fact about Levy’s resume of online cashes is that the most he has ever won in a single tournament is $387k, yet he still has over $3 million in cashes. This proves that he has been very consistent since entering the poker world. He won that $387.5k playing FTOPS on his Full Tilt Poker download back in 2009. His next largest cash is quite a bit smaller: he won $80,250 for placing 2nd in Full Tilt’s $750k Guarantee. His largest PokerStars download cash was back in 2006 when he finished 3rd in the Sunday Million for $56,990.

This UB pro has some live cashes in US poker rooms to be proud of, as well. He had his largest cash ever in this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event after barely missing the final table in 12th place. His consolation prize was $635,011 for his finish. Prior to that, his best live cash had been in 2008 for $266,445.

Levy has a pretty solid routine laid out when he plays poker. He says he usually gets up a couple hours before playing on money poker sites because just waking up and jumping on the computer doesn’t really suit him. He prefers to have a good breakfast and a shower first thing. While he’s playing poker, he likes to listen to techno music because it relaxes him. And then, when he has finished playing on the best US poker sites, he jumps onto his XBOX and plays FIFA. I like a man that knows what he’s doing!

If you are inspired by Levy, go ahead and get a poker download and start practicing your game. There is plenty of free poker training out there so even if you don’t know what you are doing at first, you should be able to improve quickly.

Eric Baldwin

If you’re looking to download free poker but you can’t decide between all the US poker sites, I’ll introduce to you Eric Baldwin, another UB representative. At just 27 years old, Baldwin is another young player that has found great success in live tournament poker. Baldwin was born in Beaver Dam, WI, and he went to the University of Wisconsin for a Psychology degree with a minor in Mathematics. He currently lives in Las Vegas.

Baldwin can be found on some of the best US poker sites, but he’s known for his live poker cashes which exceed $3 million. His wins include one WSOP bracelet in 2009 in Event 34, a $1,500 buy-in with $521, 932 for 1st place. In WSOP 2010 he cashed in four events but he didn’t make any final tables. His largest cash was in the Main Event where he finished in 59th place for $138,285.

The young player has also done well on the WPT. In late 2009 he won an event in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $256,660. In August 2009 he placed 3rd in a Legends of Poker event, and in 2008 he won Event 2 in the Five Star World Classic Poker Classic for $148,860. With all these live tournaments to attend, I’m sure Baldwin doesn’t have much time for a free slots download.

Being a UB representative, Baldwin also spends his time in online tournaments on the top Texas Hold'em sites. He has stated that online play differs from live play because preflop is much more aggressive online. Online he likes to chip up without showdowns whereas live he will attempt to see many pots multi-way and win chips that way.

Card Player named Baldwin the 2009 Player of the Year, so this UB spokesman definitely knows what he’s talking about. If you’re looking to get into money poker sites, be sure to carefully consider which site you choose. An Everest Poker download is a good choice, but UB has a lot to offer as well.

Brandon Cantu

Brandon Cantu is another professional player that would encourage you to download free poker from UB. Cantu was born in 1981 in Washington, and after his grandfather taught him poker, he played in Oregon casinos. He currently lives in Las Vegas because he has easy access to casinos for US players there.

Cantu decided to go pro back in 2006 during the WSOP after winning Event 2 for $757,839. Amazingly, that was the first major tournament he ever played! Since then, he has cashed several more times in US poker rooms. Where WSOP is concerned, he won a second bracelet in 2009 in Event 48, a PLO tournament, for $228,967. That same year he placed second in Event 39 for $403,951. His best Main Event finish was in 2008 when he took 20th for $257,334.

He also has three cashes in the World Poker Tour including his first WPT title in the Bay 101 Shooting Star championship for $1 million. He received the nickname “The Bounty Hunter” because he also earned $30k in that tournament for busting six bounty players. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 6 players he busted during that tournament wished he were a professional flash Texas Holdem player instead!

Cantu has cashed for over $3.4 million in live tournaments. Since he’s a UB pro you must be wondering how he does in online casinos for USA players. Unlike a lot of the other players I’ve written about in my blog, he actually doesn’t spend that much time playing on money poker sites as he’s always been primarily a live player. This does not mean that he doesn’t play online at all, however. He’s known as BRANDONCANTU on UB, and he can be found playing tournaments and high stakes cash games.

If you want to become good at poker, Cantu believes that you must play an aggressive style. It makes sense that he’s a tournament player! If you’d like to follow in his footsteps, here’s some advice for you: don’t download free casino games. Instead, make an account at UB and start practicing your tournament game!

Tiffany Michelle

Welcome back to my blog! I’d like to discuss another UB bonus supporter, Tiffany Michelle. Michelle has only been playing professionally for around four years, but her good looks and World Series success has caused her to become famous very quickly. She holds the record for the largest tournament field ever beat by a woman after placing 17th out of 6,844 people in the WSOP Main Event back in 2008. Since she wore a UB patch during her WSOP run, she’s pretty much been endorsing the UB bonus since 2008.

The 25 year old female player was born in Los Angeles. She went to school at UCLA where she finished a theatre program, and she has been seen on several TV programs such as ER and The Amazing Race. Her resume also features song writing and a beauty pageant win. It didn’t take her long to find the spotlight after she started playing on US poker sites. She became the commentator for WSOP coverage on a satellite radio station and then she hosted tournaments for PokerNews.

Michelle can be seen playing tournaments of all stakes on her UB download. Her favorite type of tournament is one with bounties, but she also enjoys the deep stack structure. Players that enjoy deep structures are usually cash players, too, and Michelle is no exception. You can sometimes find her playing Texas Hold Em hands at No Limit midstakes tables.

It’s safe to say that Michelle was in the right place at the right time when it comes to poker, but she’s definitely making the most of it. Back in 2008 we spent a lot of time wondering why she chose to represent UB instead of a Full Tilt Poker download, but it seems to have worked out just fine for her. She has a long way to go to catch up to the likes of Annie Duke, but she’s very young and most certainly has plenty of time!

Joe Sebok

Today’s article will be about Joe Sebok, another poker professional that supports a UB bonus. If you don’t recognize Sebok, you’ll definitely know his stepfather, Barry Greenstein. Originally from San Francisco, California, Sebok went pro back in 2005 and has been endorsing the UB bonus since late 2009.

Tournaments are Sebok’s bread and butter, and his live tournament winnings total almost $2 million. He has never won a World Series of Poker bracelet, but he’s cashed 15 times so far. His highest finish in the Main Event was 56th just last year. Seeing as he’s primarily a tournament player, it makes you wonder if he ever secretly plays on a Full Tilt Poker download or uses a PokerStars bonus code from time to time. I guess it’s a UB pro’s job to keep that stuff private, so I’ll probably never know!

Sebok is well known in the poker community. He founded PokerRoad.com with Greenstein, a site that offers blogs, radio, and TV all related to poker. He co-hosts the PokerRoad Radio with Gavin Smith, fellow professional player and good friend. You might have heard of the Internet show “Prop Bets” where Sebok and Smith compete with each other in various prop bets in things such as kick boxing and eating. This show stemmed from the prop bet that Sebok lost to Smith that caused Sebok to wear three different costumes to the 2006 Main Event, including a bear with a diaper, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman. His life may be strange, but you can see that Sebok definitely doesn’t need poker downloads and tournaments to rake in the dough.

Sebok is only in his thirties, so we can expect a lot more out of him as the years continue to roll on. He’s only been playing professionally for 5 years now, and one would think that a WSOP bracelet should definitely be in his near future. He honed his skills online when he first started playing poker, so if you strive to become a great player, you should do the same. However, Sebok would encourage you to forget everything you've heard about a Carbon Poker download or a Bodog bonus. UB is where it's at!

Annie Duke

Last time I described Phil Hellmuth because he is a professional player that would encourage a UB bonus, and today I’d like to introduce another UB representative: Annie Duke. One of the most famous female poker players in the world, Duke won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004 playing Omaha Hi-Low. She was born in New Hampshire and has a brother, a sister, and three children.

Duke began promoting UB and the UB bonus back in 2000. Her poker portfolio is rather impressive, as she’s cashed for over $4 million in live MTT poker. Her best finish in the WSOP ME was 10^th back in 2000 when she was pregnant with her 3^rd child. She’s cashed in the WSOP 37 times for a total of $1.1 million, and in 2004 she won $2 million in the WSOP Tournament of Champions.

Aside from the fact she’s a woman, there are a lot of other reasons Duke is famous in the poker world. In 2004 she tutored Ben Affleck, and then he proceeded to win the California State Poker Championship. She was the first poker player to talk on the Colbert Report, she’s appeared on the show 1 vs 100 three times, and she’s appeared on Deal or No Deal once. She also participated in Celebrity Apprentice in 2009 where she placed 2^nd behind Joan Rivers despite raising three times more money for her charity, Refugees International. Include the fact that she also participates on UB’s Best Damn Poker Show, and it’s amazing she ever has any time for poker hands.

Duke is a proud supporter of American poker online and player rights. She has a huge problem with the fact that players are not allowed to wear sponsorship logos during some live tournaments. In one news article regarding the topic, she is quoted as saying, “"We are not even slaves. We're people paying to pick the cotton." Duke acknowledges the fact she’s one of only a few successful women in poker, but she disagrees with the fact that there are women’s only tournaments. In her words, "Poker is one of the few sports where a woman can compete on a totally equal footing with a man, so I don't understand why there's a ladies only tournament." As a consequence, she refuses to participate in women’s only tournaments.

Annie Duke is an excellent representative for both UB and poker in general. It’s my hope that she will encourage more men and women alike to play on legal US poker sites and enjoy playing one of the best games ever invented. If you’re eager to get into the action, make a UB download and join her at the tables today.

Phil Hellmuth

A high profile professional poker player that would encourage you to earn a UB bonus would be Phil Hellmuth, a UB spokesman famous in the poker world for his ridiculous table antics and multiple World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets. Born July 16, 1964 in Wisconsin, Hellmuth was the first of five children and went to school at the University of Wisconsin. He has two sons, and he and his wife, Kathy, currently live in California.

 

Would you be more likely to get a UB download and take advantage of a UB bonus if you knew that UB’s most famous pro player holds some amazing tournament poker records? The most impressive record is that he has won 11 WSOP bracelets, the first won when he was just 24 years old in 1989 and the most recent one won in 2007. He also holds the record for the most WSOP cashes with 75 and the most final tables with 41. His total WSOP winnings total $6.1 million which ranks him 9^th on the WSOP All Time Money List. Strangely enough, Hellmuth has never won a World Poker Tour (WPT) tournament despite 3 final table appearances. He’s cashed 11 times in WPT events and he has $691k in total winnings. All these accomplishments caused him to be inaugurated into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2007.

 

While Hellmuth’s MTT poker success certainly allowed him to become a famous figure in the poker world, nothing keeps him in the limelight more than his reputation for outbursts and tirades at the tables. The success he’s had over the years has helped him develop a large poker ego, and nothing upsets him more than a couple bad beats. He frequently berates players when they get lucky versus him, calling them names and questioning their intelligence. In the 2008 WSOP he actually received a penalty for verbally abusing a player after he showed the table that he’d caused Hellmuth to fold a hand preflop with suited rags. His personality and countless shenanigans have earned him the nickname of “The Poker Brat”.

 

It looks like Hellmuth is making good use of his unique nickname, however. He currently has a clothing and merchandise line at www.PokerBrat.com, and he’s even written a book called Poker Brat. He’s actually written several books, he’s made several DVDs, and he even partnered with Oasys Mobile to make a mobile phone poker game. He’s written several newspaper columns called “Hand of the Week” where he details interesting poker hands that he’s encountered during his career, and he blogs for both CardPlayer and UB. And with several TV appearances and coaching gigs, it’s clear that Hellmuth has a busy poker life outside of the tables.

 

You hear so much about getting a Full Tilt download or using a PokerStars bonus code, but UB deserves some of the online poker spotlight, too. Join Hellmuth at the tables and use a UB referral code if you haven’t already done so. If you strive to one day be as successful as Hellmuth at poker, the best way to practice is by playing online. Be sure to read my first couple entries for more information about the benefits of playing at UB!

WSOP with UB

To encourage even more people to use a UB referral code and deposit into their site, those intending to play in this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) can earn an additional UB bonus if they qualify for the event through UB. This isn’t like the standard UB bonus that requires Status Points before you receive anything, though. Basically every player that wins a Main Event seat at UB via Sit N’ Go’s (SnGs) or multi-table satellites receives cash just for playing in the tournament and representing the site.

 

UB adds money to the prize pool for each player that qualifies for a seat and the more that qualify, that higher the UB bonus prize pool becomes. Once over 50 players have won a seat to the Main Event, the prize pool will contain $5,000 for every single player that represents UB. When it’s all said and done, 75% of this prize pool will be split amongst the players that play in the Main Event and the remaining 25% will be split amongst all the players that cash the event. If none of the Team UB players cash the event, the entire bonus will be split evenly amongst everyone.

 

I’ll give you some numbers to make it clearer. Let’s say that 60 players make a UB download and go on to win seats to the WSOP Main Event. This means that UB will put $300,000 ($5,000 x 60) into their progressive prize pool and each person will receive $3,750 in bonus cash ($300,000*0.75/60). If three people manage to cash the event, they will split the remaining 25% and receive an additional $25,000 ($300,000*0.25/3). Not bad!

 

If you’re able to go one step further and earn the privilege of receiving poker hands at the final table of the event, UB will offer you a chance to earn even more money with a sponsorship deal. A 9^th place finish would earn you $75,000, and if you were to go all the way and take 1^st, you’d earn $750,000! Placing in between 9^th and 1^st would net you a number in between. To receive this cash, you will be required to endorse the site for a year after the event.

 

If MTT poker is your thing and you’re planning on winning your way to the Main Event this year, you should definitely consider doing it at UB. You’re guaranteed to receive some cash via the progressive prize pool, and cashing in the event has the potential to earn you tens of thousands more. Good luck to Team UB in WSOP 2010!