On Saturday, a $109 No Limit Hold’em Turbo with Rebuys event played out as part of the ongoing Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC). A total of 514 players threw their hats into the ring, creating a prize pool of $160,900, or an average contribution of just over $300 per player. Taking second in the rebuy was Mike SowersUNCC Sowers (pictured at right), who earned $26,000 for his efforts. Heads-up, Sowers fell to the aptly-named I AM CLUTCH, who came out on top for $31,000. A three-way deal was struck.Sowers finished second in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) $10,300 High Roller event in September for a colossal $448,000, about double what he took home for being the runner-up in a $1,060 Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) tournament last February. One year ago, Sowers final tabled the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic for $654,000 and also owns recent victories in the Full Tilt Poker $100 Cubed and PokerStars $100,000 Guaranteed. Since the beginning of August, he’s amassed $657,000 in tournaments that are tracked for the Online Poker Rankings.
In the final hand of Saturday’s UBOC event, Sowers was all-in with 7-9 against A-J. The board ran out 5-4-2-3-5 and I AM CLUTCH scooped the pot with a wheel. Taking fourth in UBOC Event #17 was Jim Mr_BigQueso Collopy (pictured at left), who earned $11,000. Collopy won the PokerStars Sunday 500 in September for $88,000 and took down the Full Tilt Poker $100 rebuy on the same day for another $41,000. Collopy finished as the runner-up in the former poker tournament in May for $63,000.Editor’s Note: UB.com welcomes players from the United States. By signing up through PocketFives.com, you’ll get 27% rakeback plus the ability to play in a massive $20,000 February rake race. Sign up for UB.com today.
Finishing fourth and scooping a $9,200 payday was Cali greenerbels1 Trees. The PocketFives.com member from Chicago finished fourth in the $2,500 UBOC $1 Million Guaranteed (Event #8) for $102,000. Other January scores include a win in the PokerStars $55 rebuy for $41,000 and a runner-up showing in last weekend’s Sunday Mulligan for $34,000.
Three other members of PocketFives.com reached the final table of UBOC Event #17. Floridian nutserrytime finished sixth for $7,600, while Kevin kice32 Iacofano (pictured at right) landed in seventh for $6,000. Iacofano is fresh off a final table showing in the Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guaranteed for $54,000 and generously donated a portion of his winnings in that tournament to victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Meanwhile, nutserrytime is four days removed from winning the Full Tilt $100 Cubed for $35,000.Rounding out the nine-handed Turbo final table was Canada’s Alex AWice Wice, who pocketed $3,100. Wice is a former champion of the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up, a tournament he took down in August 2008 for $135,000. Here were the results from UBOC Event #17, reflecting the three-way chop:
1. I AM CLUTCH - $30,678
2. SOWERSS - $26,336 (SowersUNCC)
3. NIKOBALAKHOF - $23,033
4. MR_BIGQUESO - $11,263 (Mr_BigQueso)
5. GIT PAPER - $9,252 (greenerbels1)
6. ALL_DAY_DHI3 - $7,643 (nutserrytime)
7. KICE32 - $6,034 (kice32)
8. BULLD07 - $4,425
9. AWICE - $3,138 (AWice)
Kicking off at 4:00pm ET on Sunday is the UBOC 4 Championship Event. The one-day tournament features a $1,050 buy-in and guaranteed prize pool of $1 million. Eleven-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth will serve as the contest’s host and plenty of top-tier online poker players are expected. Visit UB.com for full details and to get registered.
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