Ultimate Bet

Ultimate Bet Poker (UB) is a well established online poker room. They have recently merged with Absolute Poker to form the Cereus Poker Network. This merging has dramatically increased player volume.

Ultimate Bet is a full feature poker room with everything from micro games to ultra high stakes games. Annie Duke and Phil Helmuth are part of the UB team. You can find them at the tables at almost any level of play.

UB has some very innovative game that you can play. You can find yourself in a Rosh ambo cash game if you’re not careful. Or, you might be playing Elimination Blackjack.

Merging with Absolute Poker has increased the player base. Now you have close to 5,000 players in the ring games during peak hours. Tournaments carry as many as 22,000 players during these times.

UB is one of the US friendly sites. They are currently offering an incredible 200% sign up bonuses for new players. This is for first time deposits, and can be for up to $1,100.

The software UB uses is very good. It is fast, reliable, and safe. Some might find it boring, but functionality is very high.

You can play as many tables as you want. When you are multi-tabling, things still are fast and stable. They now also offer a min view, which allows you to shrink tables to the size of a text bar.

As far a customer support, UB only offer e-mail support. However, they use this one mode very effectively. E-mails are responded to very quickly, and the staff knows its stuff.

UB has a nice $200,000 guaranteed event on every Sunday. This is their biggest weekly event. Coming up in December they will be having a series of events called UBOC (Ultimate Bet Online Championships). They will have over $3,000,000 in guarantees for the series.

There are always nice promotions going on at UB. They run a bad beat jackpot, and a “refer a friend” program, for example. The loyalty program even lets you turn your points into straight cash.

Overall, UB is a very solid online poker room. Maybe nothing spectacular, but no major problems either. You really can’t go wrong playing at UB.