A strong interest in UltimateBet.com’s $2,000,000 online poker championship series this past weekend catapulted the prize pools of the final four UBOC events beyond their initial guarantees to an impressive $1,218,300 in prize money. This included an $807,000 grand finale that paid out $181,575 to the winner.

On Friday, December 14th at 8pm ET, UltimateBet guaranteed $100,000 in Event #10, a 6-seated No Limit Hold’em tournament. 320 players logged on and played in this first online poker event, inflating the prize pool by 60% to $160,000. It was déjà vu on Saturday at 2pm ET when Event #11’s final prize pool totaled $101,300, over $26,000 more than what was initially guaranteed.

While Sunday’s 2pm ET tournament was impressive with $150,000 in guaranteed money at stake, it was UBOC’s Event #13 that has the entire online poker industry talking.

The UltimateBet Online Championship main attraction, a $750,000 Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em tournament, began Sunday night at 5pm ET. The total prize pool eclipsed the guarantee by $57,000. A total of 807 players claimed a seat in the $1000+50 online Texas Hold’em tournament at 5pm ET, pumping up the final prize pool to $807,000. The final table of the online pokertournament was streamed live on UltimateBet.com. Annie Duke, one of the world’s top poker professionals, hosted the live webcast [...]

New features of the new Full Tilt Poker software includes the ability to set a predetermined amount (number of big blinds, as in 10 times the big blind, or 20 times the big blind, etc.) for future buy-in’s. Once you’ve set up your preference through the Full Tilt Poker lobby (under preferences) the software will default to that preference for all future buy ins.

Full Tilt Poker Heads up Sit n Go Rematches. Following every heads up sit n go match each player will be asked if they’d like to rematch.

Automatic Rebuys in Full Tilt Poker ring games (cash games). Pokerstars “Fast” table players will be familiar with this option, when you a player bites the felt (or loses all their chips) in a regular ring poker game, they are automatically rebought back in. The money to cover the rebuy is taken from the players account.

Holding your mouse over a players avatar will now reveal the country that player is playing from in addition to the player notes stored for each player. This is not a preference or an option, can’t be turned off [...]

Online poker guide FlopTurnRiver.com has announced that it has added FullTiltPoker.com to its list of compatible poker rooms for its Hand History Converter.

FlopTurnRiver.com is a Texas Hold’em Strategy Guide and Online Poker Forum Community. FlopTurnRiver.com offers several other free online poker tools including the Hand History Database, the Tournament Trimmer, Tournament Archives, Poker Odds Calculator and Poker Videos.

The Hand History Converter accepts raw online poker room hand histories and then outputs an easy-to-read version with card graphics able to be cut and pasted into discussion forums across the Internet for analysis and discussion. FlopTurnRiver.com stated that the free output makes it easy to understand the action and events of a particular poker hand and attracts more participation for feedback [...]

It was a history-making weekend in online poker as UltimateBet.com kicked off its $2-million poker series and doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in guaranteed cash.

The UltimateBet.com Online Championship began December 7th at 8pm ET with a $100,000 Guaranteed 6 Seat No Limit Hold’em poker tournament. Over the course of the weekend, the popular online poker site hosted four additional events, which collectively guaranteed $575,000 US.

Shotskee, CollegeChick and Rizen finished first in events one, three, and five respectively. But the series was extra lucrative for one particular online poker player who took control of events two and four.

Wild Duck reigned victorious in two major UBOC events - Saturday’s $75,000 Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em poker tournament and Sunday’s $200,000 Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em event - earning a total of $84,759.10 in one weekend.

Online poker leader PokerStars.com has announced the release of the Apple version of their online poker software.

The Apple beta version of PokerStars’ online poker software is expected to attract millions of Macintosh users.

Months of testing has been going on and the feedback has been positive from many Mac users. The testing was being done with play money.

The version will be similar to the current Windows users. The only difference will be the new Preferred Seat, feature and Layout Manager [...]

The biggest names in European poker are in Paris tonight for the annual event which gives recognition to outstanding performers in five categories.

The event coincides with the European Finals of Poker (EFOP) held at the Aviation Club de France in Paris. There’s at least one Brit nominated in each category, as Julian Thew, Ram Vaswani, Jen Mason, Madeleine Harper, and last year’s player of the year Roland de Wolfe have all been recognised for their efforts in 2007.

Pro player 19-year old Norwegian poker phenomenon Annette Obrestad has been nominated in three different categories. Annette was the first person to win the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event. The win also made her the youngest bracelet winner to date at the age of 19. She followed that up with a second-place finish in a European Poker Tour event as well this year.

Other nominees in Most Notable Tournament Performance of the Year are:

Bruno Fitoussi, France

Alex Kravchenko, Russia

Annette Obrestad, Norway

Carlos Mortenson, Spain

Ram Vaswani, England

Player nomination was determined by a panel of poker experts and player representatives from around the continent. Here are the rest of the categories and nominees [...]

UltimateBet.com is making history this weekend as it kicks off its biggest online poker series yet. The UltimateBet.com Online Championship - a multi-million online poker series featuring some of the biggest names in poker - begins December 7th at 8pm ET.

Dubbed UBOC by the online poker site, the UltimateBet.com Online Championship features 13 online poker events spread out over 10 days. UBOC offers online poker players the chance to play in a variety of guaranteed online poker games including 6-Seat No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha, No Limit Hold’em, Limit Hold’em, and Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better.

The series culminates with a $1000+50 No Limit Texas Hold’em that boasts a $750,000 prize pool. UltimateBet plans to broadcast the final table of the December 16th event online [...]

LONDON, December 5 /PRNewswire/ — Europe’s largest pub poker league has launched its very own online poker room with the assistance of leading managed service provider Inside Gaming. The Nuts Poker League (TNPL) has joined the largest online poker network which offers more than GBP8 million in guaranteed prizes every month and that attracts a staggering 75,000 unique players from around the world every day.

Online poker players will not only be given an opportunity to play through a variety of special poker tournaments hosted by the network, but Nuts players will also be invited to play in nightly “Lock In” tournaments which have been specially created to capture the community feel that has already been generated through the landbased poker events in pubs across the UK.

TNPL found fame last year when Managing Director Steve Bellis, appeared on the ground breaking BBC program Dragons Den. Steve had two of the five Dragons committing to fund his project to take his poker league to the next level and although he originally accepted the offer, like any good poker player, when it came to the detail he folded [...]

UltimateBet opened the registration for the online poker heads-up tournament. The 5th UltimateBet.com Heads-Up Smack Down is now open for interested online poker players.

Miami, FL (PRWeb) December 4, 2007 – UltimateBet is quickly building a reputation as the Texas Hold’em world’s heads-up headquarters, and for good reason. The popular online poker room today opened the registration floodgates to the fifth major heads-up tournament series in a span of just four months.

The 5th UltimateBet.com Heads-Up Smack Down, a head-to-head Texas Hold’em tournament modeled after college basketball’s famous bracket series, gets underway December 8th.

Online poker players looking to be a contender in the fifth installment of UltimateBet’s signature heads-up series need to gather their chips and hurry. The online poker site is increasing the intensity of the latest tournament by limiting it to just 32 players [...]

The High Stakes showdown went off with eight players on PokerStars’ sunday poker tournament, and both the Warm-Up and Million finished without final table deals.

Online poker player, BIGbossM won nearly $200,000 in the Sunday Million. Here are all the results from this Sunday’s action.

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Final Table Results

1. darksidius34 (France) $93,518.44
2. Benno300 (United States) $47,381.40
3. mrrain (United States) $31,539.74
4. maknmny8 (United States) $25,365.80
5. NutsErryTime (United States) $20,101.20
6. berta mu (Denmark) $15,267.34
7. Pjer d’Brt (Slovenia) $10,959.94
8. django3001 (Germany) $6,891.84
9. CheapThieves (United States) $4,020.24 [...]