In the Championship Event of the fifth Ultimate Bet Online Championship, or UBOC, U.K. poker player Charlie chaz_man_chaz Combes emerged victorious following a four-way chop. His $136,000 payday was actually the third largest at the final table, but Combes nevertheless turned in his largest cash to date. The finale of UBOC 5, a $1,050 No Limit Hold’em Monster Stack tournament, broke its $1 million guarantee when 1,032 players registered and the top 99 finished in the money.Claiming the largest payday in the UBOC 5 Championship Event was Pamela vampiraLusigna Quesada, who hails from Costa Rica. Quesada walked away with $152,000 and has been a member of the online poker community for the past four years. UB.com member WALLABAER pocketed $145,000 after the four-way chop on Sunday, while TOOCURIOUSSO officially took second place and pulled down $95,000.
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Craig HU4ROLLZ Bergeron (pictured) landed in eighth on the UBOC 5 Championship Event leaderboard and raked in 25 times his buy-in. Bergeron hails from Michigan and is also a former Full Tilt $1K Monday champ. Six days ago, Bergeron was the runner-up in the PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand for $16,000. Rounding out the $1,050 buy-in tournament’s final table was Italy’s Riccardo Zioriky Cantafora, who pulled down $17,000 for ninth place.Here’s how the nine final table participants cashed out:
1. CHAZ_MAN_C - $136,178 (chaz_man_chaz)
2. TOOCURIOUSSO - $95,000
3. VENUSIGNA - $152,000 (vampiraLusigna)
4. WALLABAER - $145,000
5. APATHY123 - $56,244
6. WAMMERMOUTH - $45,924
7. MST_MORPHEUS - $35,604
8. 1GENERAL_TAO - $25,284 (HU4ROLLZ)
9. DONRIKY - $17,544 (Zioriky)
Next up for the industry is the 2010 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), a 62-event series that guarantees a ludicrous $50 million. The action in the 2010 WCOOP gets underway on Sunday with three No Limit Hold’em events that will offer up a combined $5.5 million in guaranteed prize money. The Main Event takes place on September 26th; the feature tournament comes with a $5,200 price tag and guarantees $10 million.Visit UB.com or its sister CEREUS Network site AbsolutePoker for more UBOC 5 coverage. Also, check out our complete UBOC 5 final table results to see how members of the online poker community fared over the past two weeks.









