18/02/2009 In Rakeback Advice, Strategy

Ultimate Bet is notable for sponsoring high profile professional poker stars Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke. Hellmuth is the all-time Texas hold’em tournament champion, with 11 World Series of Poker bracelets and a WSOP main event championship under his belt. Duke was the winner of the first WSOP tournament of champions and is a WSOP bracelet winner as well.
Ultimate Bet Advantages

Ultimate Bet prides itself on offering more poker games than any other site. If there’s a poker game played at a live casino, it’s probably played at Ultimate Bet. Games offered at Ultimate Bet include the ever-popular Texas hold’em, Omaha and seven card stud, as well as mixed games like H.O.R.S.E., H.O.S.E. and half hold’em half Omaha. Ultimate Bet even offers more esoteric games like deuce to seven triple draw lowball, where the objective is to make the worst hand possible, razz, a seven card stud all low game, and crazy pineapple, a Texas hold’em variant where players get three cards instead of two in the hole and must discard one after the flop. Ultimate Bet is also host to a major live poker tournament, the Aruba Poker Classic.

Ultimate Bet Disadvantages

The biggest disadvantage that Ultimate Bet is currently addressing is its affiliation with Absolute Poker. Absolute Poker has recently been exposed as being the victim of possibly the biggest cheating scandal experienced by a major site. Although these are two different sites, the same parent company, Tokwiro Enterprises, owns both, causing some players to have some trepidation about Ultimate Bet.