In the last two events held as part of the fifth Ultimate Bet Online Championship, or UBOC, members of the online poker community have come away with two titles. Last night, Dallas native Austin austin held Held (pictured) took down a $162 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Sniper tournament (Event #17) to the tune of $23,000, besting a field of 550 players. The UBOC 5 contest fell well short of its guarantee, but the top 54 finished in the money. Held is fresh off a July final table appearance in the Full Tilt Poker $75,000 Guarantee.

Heads-up, Held edged out Netherlands poker player HSneth, who banked $14,000. In an 11-day span in December, HSneth finished first and second in the PokerStars $40,000 Guarantee and final tabled the Full Tilt Turbo $50,000 Guarantee for a combined haul of $25,000. Here’s how the final table of the $162 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Sniper tournament shook out:

1. B AUSTIN B - $23,500 (austin held)
2. HSNETH - $14,500 (HSneth)
3. SGTGES - $10,000
4. MARCELEBOEUF - $7,150
5. ED_ANGELIS - $5,500
6. DONKMAGNET55 - $4,500

In Event #15, a $320 No Limit Hold’em Sniper tournament, Cormac Cormacbuzz O’Dea emerged victorious to capture the UBOC title and championship watch. His victory was worth $37,000 and his largest online poker score to date. One week ago, O’Dea finished as the runner-up in the Full Tilt $40,000 Guarantee for $15,000.

Third place in Event #15 went to Connecticut’s z06fanatic, a two-time Triple Crown winner. He added another $15,000 to his bankroll to go along with scores that include a July win in the PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand and a January win in the Full Tilt $75,000 Guarantee. Right behind him on the UBOC event’s leaderboard was Corey comandr_cool Burbick (pictured), the 19th player in the Online Poker Player Rankings.

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plumber922 claimed the fifth spot on the Event #15 leaderboard and banked $9,000, while Canada’s DcHustler took sixth for $7,500. Rounding out the final table was Shyam s_dot111 Srinivasan (pictured, image courtesy of CardPlayer), who has over $2 million in earnings from Full Tilt tournaments that are tracked for the Rankings:

1. BUZZMERCHANT - $37,425 (Cormacbuzz)
2. DEDA35 - $22,500
3. Z06FANATIC - $15,375 (z06fanatic)
4. CMB8757 - $10,500 (comandr_cool)
5. PLUMBER922 - $9,000 (plumber922)
6. DCHUSTLER - $7,500 (DcHustler)
7. MNEUBE - $6,000
8. MBN2WIN - $4,500
9. S_DOT111 - $3,000 (s_dot111)

Mark your calendars for Sunday at 4:00pm ET, when the UBOC 5 Championship Event will play out. Three tournaments remain on the docket in total with a combined $1.2 million in guaranteed prize money:

UBOC 5 Event #18: $100+9 No Limit Hold’em Turbo with Rebuys
$100,000 Guarantee
Saturday at 2:00pm ET
Hosted by Mark P0ker H0 Kroon

UBOC 5 Event #19: $300+20 Eight-Game Mixed
$100,000 Guarantee
Saturday at 4:00pm ET

UBOC 5 Championship Event: $1,000+50 No Limit Hold’em Monster Stack
$1 Million Guarantee
Sunday at 4:00pm ET

Visit UB.com or its sister site, AbsolutePoker, to sign up. Check out our complete UBOC 5 final table results.