Summary (8.5)

Ultimate Bet has been a popular and trusted online poker room for many years. It has seen incredible growth over the last year, mainly due to an aggressive marketing campaign, great promotions and pro sponsorships including David "Devilfish" Ulliott, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari and Annie Duke. Some of the pro endorsers have been known to frequent the tables quite often. You could even win your way into Ultimate Best Aruba Classic and a free poker vacation to play with the pros in paradise. Ultimate Bet receives excellent traffic, continually ranking as one of the top 5 busiest online card rooms. Their software is very fast and reliable offering great playability with very few reports of disconnects or crashes. The software boasts great table/player statistics and has a nice look and feel thanks to the sleek graphics. Ultimate Bet offers decent promotions combined with an excellent refer a friend program offering up-to $100 sign-up bonus per friend. Overall UB is one of the best in the industry and is considered #1 by many when you’re talking about overall online poker experience. Definitely worth a look.

Software & Graphics (8)

Ultimate Bets software is fast and reliable providing great table statistics and functionality. It features a unique fun look and feel. The software has slick graphics but is missing player personality features providing no icons or avatars - just your player ID is displayed. Ultimate Bet provides a clean uncluttered look so you can concentrate on playing solid poker. Overall the software is great, has excellent playability with no real bugs or downfalls.

Game Variety (9)

Good. Ultimate Bet offers a number of different poker games including; Hold'em, Omaha and 7 Card Stud in both Hi and Hi-Lo. Full Tilt even offers a low-ball game and was the first online poker site to offer crazy pineapple games. Heads-up tables are also available in Hold’em, Omaha and 7–Card-Stud as well as special “kill games” featuring some unique action pushing rules.

Ring & Tournament Traffic (9)

Ultimate Bets traffic has exploded over the last year due to their notoriety as a fun and energetic poker site backed by many world class poker pros. Increased TV and Print presence has helped pushed Ultimate Bets traffic to 2700 – 3500 ring games and 3300 – 4300 tournament real money players during peak hours. Unlike most other sites, there is plenty of action across the board in most games offered, not just Held’em.

Rake (5)

The rake at Ultimate Bet is slightly higher then the industry average at the lower levels. The table maximums are around the industry average but are taken at more frequent intervals causing a less-attractive overall rake percentage. Stick to the slightly higher tables if you’re worried about paying too much rake at Ultimate Bet. A maximum of $1 is taken out of pots up to the $1/$2 levels and a max of $3 at the $2/$4 and above levels. The tournaments feature a flat fee of 10% of the buy–in except for the $1 tournaments which are free.

Soft Competetion (4)

There’s a good amount of juicy action on Ultimate Bet but the loose tables are a little tricky to find. The view flop percentages are quite low in the higher levels and boast a little tougher competition then some other online poker rooms but rank average in terms of soft competition amongst the top 5 online card rooms. Hunting down the good games combined with solid play usually result in a very lucrative relationship with Ultimate Bet.

Promotions & Bounses (7.5)

Ultimate Bet currently offers a 40% bonus of up to $200. No Bonus Code is required to receive the bonus, the bonus is automatically given by using our links. Ultimate Bet also offers tons of satellites into the World Poker Tour Aruba Classic with over $1 million going to the winner. Almost half of the participants qualify online through Ultimate Bet Satellites winning the $9000 vacation plus WPT tournament buy-in. Ultimate Bet always offers a seemingly endless supply of new and exciting promotions, give aways and tournaments.

Support (7)

The help staff at Ultimate Bet is both knowledgeable and helpful. Currently they do not offer 24/7 telephone support. All inquiries are handled by email but feature great response times, we're talking under 10 minutes.

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