Ultimate Blackjack Tour

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The Ultimate Blackjack Tour is a televised series of Elimination Blackjack tournaments airing on CBS. It debuted on September 16, 2006. The show consists of a series of televised Elimination Blackjack tournaments. The winner of each weekly tournament returns for the final Tournament of Champions.

Along with professional blackjack players and Internet qualifiers, the producers included a number of professional poker players not normally known for playing blackjack to draw attention to the poker elements inherent in the unique format of Elimination Blackjack tournaments.

The show is hosted by Max Rubin and Mati Moralejo, with Nikki Ziering and Shandi Finnessey serving as sideline reporters.

Featured players of the Ultimate Blackjack Tour are members of Team UBT, which is made up of poker stars like Johnny Chan, Robert Williamson III, and Phil Laak and professional blackjack players like world champions Ken Einiger and Anthony Curtis, "Hollywood" Dave Stann and Monica Reeves.

Rebroadcasts of the first season started airing in January 2007 on Superstation WGN, with the second season scheduled to debut on CBS in May 2007.

[edit] Season 1

The first season consisted of ten televised tournaments. The winner of each of seven preliminary tournaments returned for the final Tournament of Champions. Players competed for a share of over $1 million. Two of the episodes, "Ladies' Night" and the "UBT Legends Tournament," were not qualifiers for the Tournament of Champions.

[edit] Tournament results

Tournament Winner Runner-Up Other Players in Finish Order
Tournament 1 Ken Smith "Hollywood" Dave Stann
Tournament 2 David Matthews Joanna "Queen of Spades" W.
Tournament 3 Tyrone Jackson Lupe Sherman
Tournament 4 Monica Reeves Chuck Gorson
  • Klara Lato
  • Mark Kroon
  • Michael Castellana
  • Steven Suh
  • Gary "Debo" DeBernardi
Tournament 5 Adriana Jade Blair Rodman
  • Spencer Mohler
  • Patrick Taylor
  • Norm Sheridan
  • S.H. Long
  • Dewey Tomko
"Ladies' Night"1 Angie "Moneytaker" Hardy Monica Reeves
Tournament 6 "Rock & Roll" Darrell Arnold Gary "Debo" DeBernardi
Tournament 7 "Hollywood" Dave Stann Erica Schoenberg
  • Skip Samad
  • Freddy Deeb
  • Dennis Novinskey
  • Matt Davidow
  • Jennifer Tilly
Season 1 Championship David Matthews Adrianna Jade
  • Darrell Arnold
  • "Hollywood" Dave Stann
  • Ken Smith
  • Tyrone Jackson
  • Monica Reeves
"UBT Legends Tournament" Ken Einiger Anthony Curtis
  • "MIT Mike" Aponte
  • Stanford Wong
  • James Grosjean
  • Ken Smith
  • David Matthews

1 Not a qualifier tournament for the Season 1 Championship table

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