Ultimate Bet is definitely one of the world’s leading poker rooms. The traffic at Ultimate Bet is among the top 3-4 in both ring games and tournaments. The game variation is excellent (see below) and there are many high limit games. For those who are new to online poker, Ultimate Bet's micro limit tables are an excellent way to get introduced to poker online without risking the mortgage but to experience action with real money. Their tournament schedule is extensive to say the least. A tournament player's nirvana. Be sure to check out “The MiniView feature” (for multiple table play)! The action is very fast with plenty of loose games. There is little to fault Ultimate Bet although some members have complained about the crazy hands (which seems to be a common complaint of all poker rooms). But that clearly shows that the action is often very loose and therefore many "easy to win" games.

• Texas Hold Em
• Omaha
• Omaha Hi/Lo
• Seven Card Stud
• Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo
• Crazy Pineapple
• Crazy Pineapple Hi/Lo
• 3 Card Draw (Triple Draw)

The player tables only have seats with the name and stack amount superimposed onto each seat. There are no player Avatars (which most poker rooms seem to have nowadays and some even support actual photos/images of the players). For those that like to play at several tables at the same time, there is The MiniView feature. (The user can always switch each table back to standard view.) Notes on players are supported. You can chat with observers or restrict chat to players at the table or cancel chat altogether. The options function will allow you to set the table, chat and lobby features.

MINI VIEW

Ultimate Bet is typically in top 3 to 5, in terms of ring games traffic which is most of the time well over 6,000 players logged on at any time with the numbers rising well over 10,000 at peak hours. The traffic is quite well spread out. Ultimate Bet really stands out from the area when it comes to poker variations being played by a decent number of players. Although Texas Hold Em remains the most popular, you can find several tables being played in most of the forms of poker supported by Ultimate Bet. We don't know of any other poker room that offers NL games with $150/$300 blinds.

Ultimate Bet is also amongst the top 5 in terms of tournament traffic. At multi-table tournaments, there is sometimes a "player bounty", in which the participant who eliminated the bounty player gets a special price! Huge range of single tournaments ranging from $5+$0.25 up to $5,000+$100. Ultimate Bet offer single table tournaments in all poker variants supported apart from Pineapple. Nearly 50 daily scheduled multi-table tournaments and plenty of daily freerolls. Amongst the strongest and most frequent multi-table tournament schedule online.

Below is merely an indication of the various kinds of guaranteed pot tournaments. There are so many each day, with Saturday and particularly Sundays holding the most and the largest guaranteed tournaments. Essentially, there is at least 1 Guaranteed Tournament starting every 2 hours of the day. Naturally, plenty of qualifiers for WSOP events as well as the $1 million guaranteed Ultimate Bet poker tournament.

Ultimate Bet is ideally suited for the serious tournament player as there are often more than 10 guaranteed tournaments per day with prize pool in excess of $2,500.

DEPOSIT OPTIONS:
VISA, MasterCard, NETeller, FirePay, Citadel (US only), SFPay (US only), wire transfer, bank draft, cashier's check

CASH OUT OPTIONS:
NETeller, FirePay and check (VISA up to the amount you have charged)

Support is today much better at Ultimate Bet. The response time for most emails are under 10 minutes. The staff is nice and knowledgable overall. However, they still only have email support which is a definite negative.

Ultimate Points are awarded for each raked hand or tournament. Extra points are awarded players who start up new games. Points can be used for entries to tournaments or merchandise purchases.