Ultimatebet.com
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Founded in 2001, UltimateBet.com is one of the ten largest online poker cardrooms.
Once a year, Ultimate Bet hosts a live tournament, the Aruba Poker Classic, which was a World Poker Tour event for the first four seasons of the show. In 2005, Freddy Deeb won the event, claiming the $1,000,000 prize. Prior winners were Eric Brenes in 2004, Erick Lindgren in 2003, and Juha Helppi in 2002.
Spokespeople for UltimateBet.com include professional poker players Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Dave "Devil Fish" Ulliott, Antonio Esfandiari, and actress Jennifer Tilly.
Like other online poker rooms, Ultimate Bet also offers a .net play money only cardroom.
Ultimate Bet has Texas hold 'em, Omaha high and high low, seven card stud high and high low, Pineapple, Royal hold'em, and Triple Draw A-5 and 2-7 Lowball. Mixed games tables are also offered (HO, HOSE, and HORSE).
Prior to the passage of the Safe Port Act, the software parent company of the cardroom, Excapsa Software was traded on the London Stock Exchange as XCP.L. In October 2006 the company announced they were selling their assets to a private company and moving to delist from the stock exchange. [1] The legality of the deal was immediately questioned due to the fact that most of the payment would take place after the Act became law.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Bloomberg: Excapsa to Sell Assets, Scrap Listing on U.S. Gaming Crackdown
- ^ The Times: Deferred portion of £130m Excapsa sale raises questions
