Ultimate Bet is one of the oldest online rooms available and one of the few remaining reputable poker rooms accepting US players. They feature some of the biggest tournaments online with such endorsed pros as Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth seen at the tables. Players can qualify for live events through multiple satellites available in addition to plenty of freerolls supported each day. Ultimate Bet features Elimination Blackjack, a bad beat jackpot and some high stakes poker.
Originally released in 1999, Ultimate Bet has become one of the top rooms for players across the globe as well as those who reside in the US. Ultimate Bet is home to some of the world’s top professional players like Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke and also provides stakes for beginners and high stakes players with action at all times of the day. If you are a tournament player, cash games or hunt for satellites to the WSOP or EPT than this site will defiantly have something for you. Other elements of this room include Blackjack and Elimination Blackjack.
New players to Ultimate Bet will receive one of the largest signup bonuses online and with that they have a very unique way of releasing it. The sign up bonus is 111% match up to $1100. The 111% is to celebrate the 11th WSOP bracelet that Phil Hellmuth won during the 2007 World Series of Poker. What makes this bonus different then most is you will not have to earn a certain amount of frequent player points in order to clear it. Ultimate Bet gives you your bonus as you play. The rate of release is $1/10 raked hands. In addition to this they also award you FPP’s for playing on the site. For every hour you are involved in ring games you will be awarded one additional frequent player point enabling a faster clearance rate for bonuses.
Without a doubt the competition in this room is a lot fiercer than say some of the smaller low key rooms. Since they have been in business for so many years and provide the stakes to support high stakes poker they have attracted plenty of skilled players. With that said there are still ample beginners and loose players found on this site at the micro limit and low limit games. It is recommended that you pay attention to the table statistics provided in the lobby.
What we do like about Ultimate Bet is the game variety offered. They offer the traditional games such as Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 card Stud Hi Lo but support mixed variations as well that you are quite uncommon in online poker rooms. These include; Triple Draw, Kill Games and Double Flop Holdem. Blackjack players can also play your standard Vegas Blackjack or Elimination Blackjack. All of the table games are supported in their respective limits such as No Limit, Pot Limit and Fixed Limit with stakes starting as low as $.01/$.02 to as high as $300/$600. Typically you will find over 20,000 real money players at the cash games making all of the above mentioned games very active during peak hours. Ultimate Bet takes a 5% rake from each pot with a cap fixed at $3 per hand.
Te tournament line up is by far one of the better ones catering to all players and all bankrolls. They are well structured and very popular which means it’s not uncommon to see thousands of players participating in a single tournament. Tournaments are featured in various formats and available in re-buys, freezeouts, double stack and even shoot outs. Beginners can practise their game by playing in many of the site’s daily freerolls which offer seats to bigger events on site or small prize pools. Ultimate Bet sponsors plenty of seats to live events including the WSOP, and WPT with qualifiers and satellites found daily. You will also find plenty of signature events such as the UK Online Championship, and Ultimate Players Choice.
The software at Ultimate Bet is proprietary which means they do not share a player base. The platform they created is reliable, secure and one which you shouldn’t experience any lags or delays. They are equipped with all the features beginners and advanced players would expect such as lobby and table statistics, lightening fast speed and compatible with data mining software such as Poker Tracker. Multi-table players will be able to play in eight games simultaneously with a resizing tool as well as cascading tiles to accelerate the performance between switching tables. The graphics do not support personal avatars but offer a full view table. The only negative aspect in this room is the lobby itself. Ultimate Bet offers such a massive line up of various games that the lobby can seem slightly overwhelming at first glance.
Email is the only means you will have for support and due to the large player base a wait time is expected for replies. The support team is very knowledgeable and efficient in handling questions. Most of the information about Ultimate Bet can be found on the company website.
Payment methods available include; Visa/MasterCard, Visa Electron, Click2Pay, ePassporte, Western Union, MoneyGram, eWalletXpress, bank draft, and wire transfer.
