Event #13 of the recently completed Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC) was a $162 Mixed Omaha/Stud Eight or Better tournament. The festivities drew a crowd of 286 entrants, easily surpassing its $30,000 guaranteed prize pool. At the end of the day, PocketFives.com member Timothy highlandfox Finne paced the 32 in the money finishers and pulled down nearly $12,000 for the win. Finne racked up $90,000 in tournaments that are tracked for the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings in January and sat down with us to recap his run.

Following his big UBOC win, Finne won the Nightly Seventy Grand on PokerStars for $13,000. He's a former winner of that site's Sunday 500 and also bested World Poker Tour Championship winner Yevgeniy Jovial Gent Timoshenko in the nightly $100,000 Guaranteed on PokerStars. Before we begin discussing the art of winning High-Low games, let’s check out the results from UBOC Event #13:
1. MOTA_L_ZORRO - $11,755 (highlandfox)
2. TELOC39 - $7,722
3. PEARLJAMMED - $4,934 (PearlJammer)
4. DEBO34 - $3,432 (debo34)
5. SCHDNFRD - $2,574
6. AARON100000 - $1,931
7. AJB4 - $1,502 (AJB444)
8. CLOWNFISH411 - $1,073

PocketFives.com: Thanks for joining us. Tell us about your decision to play in the 13th event of UBOC 4.

Timothy Finne: They had the $1,000 buy-in $300,000 Guaranteed on the same day, so I wanted to play in that as well. People are pretty terrible at Eight or Better games.

PocketFives.com: The final table of the tournament featured a star-studded cast of characters that included Jon PearlJammer Turner (pictured at left) and UB.com sponsored pro Gary debo34 Debernardi, who took third and fourth, respectively. Can you tell us about their games?

Timothy Finne: Sure. I’ve never played on UB.com before this, so I’ve never played with debo34 before. That tournament was my first ever cash on the site. They had the UBOC events going on, so I put some money on before the series started. The opening day of UBOC 4 was the first time I had ever played. There were a couple of times where debo34 put in bets where there was no way he would be playing for more than half of the pot. You shouldn’t typically do that. You should just try to minimize your investment and slow down. He understands the game and plays tight and solid most of the time.

PearlJammer is a pretty tight player generally and I thought we'd face each other heads-up in the event. I got the best of him in a few Omaha pots and was able to get heads-up with the much weaker player.

PocketFives.com: Tell us how you got started playing non-Hold’em games like Stud and Omaha.

Timothy Finne: When I first started playing poker, I played Hold’em at an Indian casino called Cities of Gold. There was an Omaha Eight or Better game there that was ridiculously juicy. It was a $5/$10 game and I probably averaged about $30 per hour playing 20 to 25 hands per hour. There were seven to eight players to the flop and five to the river. You didn’t have to play that well to make a profit.

When I moved back East, I played a lot of online tournaments. People have gotten better at Hold’em, but there is still a lot of dead money in Mixed events. People don’t play them that often and haven’t studied them as much as they have Hold’em. I got third in a $3,000 HORSE event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP).

PocketFives.com: The WSOP event you mentioned was in 2009. You banked $126,000, outlasting everyone except fellow PocketFives.com member Zach Zackpacker Fellows (pictured at right) and James Van Alstyne. Tell us about the field that turned out.

Timothy Finne: Everybody at the final table except for [fourth place finisher] Michele Limongi was a very good player. For most of the final table, I was short, so I was playing super tight just trying to move up the payout scale. There were a few key Hold’em hands where I was short and doubled or tripled up. You have a better idea of what your opponents in those tournaments are doing if they’re solid players. If not, they could be playing any three cards and it’s tougher to read their hands. Even my Day 1 table had mostly pretty good players and featured Archie Karas and Chris indariva Tryba.