UltimateBet Celebrates CEREUS with $220,000 Point Race
November 29, 2008 - The CEREUS Poker Network is taking its highly publicized bigger and better concept to an extreme. Just two months after UltimateBet launched a $115,000 Points Race, the online poker site today announced a $220,000 contest set to get underway on December 1st.To qualify for UltimateBet’s Points Race promotion, online poker players must earn RAI$E Status Points at UltimateBet by playing in any real-money raked ring game between December 1st and 31st.
At the end of the qualifying period, the top 200 Status Point earners on the online poker site’s leaderboard will share in a $200,000 prize pool that includes $15,000 for the first place finisher, $14,000 for the second place finisher, and $13,000 for the player who ranks third. Players in the top 30 are guaranteed to win $1,000 and that number grows based on leaderboard rank.
The $200,000 prize pool for the top Status Point earners is double the amount offered in UltimateBet’s October Points Race contest.
On Tuesday, UltimateBet announced that it had completed its transition to the CEREUS Poker Network, offering online poker players a host of new features and promising bigger tournaments, hotter promotions, and higher Bad Beat Jackpots.
Online poker players at UltimateBet have already realized the benefits that come with an expanded player base through a soaring Bad Beat Jackpot. By Thursday morning, the jackpot of the Texas Hold’em game was bordering on the $800,000 mark.
Thanks to CEREUS, UltimateBet’s Points Race promotion continues to deliver on the promise of a bigger and better online poker experience for players at the leading online poker site.
Full details on this promotion can be found at the Points Race page.
About UltimateBet
Designed with the assistance of the best poker players in the world - Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke – UltimateBet provides the best poker games available on the net through the CEREUS poker network. Players can download the free poker software, play in free ring games and tournaments and get tips from the pros to learn the sport or to enhance their playing strategy.
