Ultimate Bet Prize Pool Reaches Over $2.3 Million
Winning Big via UltimateBet
For two years running, a Pennsylvania resident has won the UltimateBet Aruba Poker Classic Main Event. Brandon Hall won the Aruba poker tournament Saturday night, a first place prize of $753,330. Last year Matt Brady, also from Pennsylvania, won UltimateBet’s 2008 Aruba tournament for a pay day of $1 million.
For the 8th year in a row, the Aruba Poker Classic returned to the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino. Online poker players were invited to win their way to Aruba for the Texas Hold’em tournament through low-cost satellites at UltimateBet.com for amounts as low as $0.10. The festivities included many parties, non-stop poker tournaments, cash tables and VIP treatment for the highest rated members of UltimateBet’s RAI$E program.
Star poker players such as Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Joe Sebok, Adam Levy, Billy Kopp, Bryan Devonshire, Brandon Cantu, Liv Boeree, Tiffany Michelle, and many others were also in attendance.
Poker Pool Worth Over $2.3 Million
Four hundred seventy five (475) enthusiastic poker players took their seats in the $5,550 Main Event to face-off for a slice of a prize pool that reached $2,303,750.
In celebration of its 10th anniversary dealing cards online, UltimateBet also included a number of other land-based poker tournaments in Aruba with noteworthy top prizes.
Below are the results of the final table, which played out on Saturday, October 10th, 2009:
- 1. Brandon Hall $753,330
- 2. Robert Mizrachi $414,680
- 3. Chase Steely $218,860
- 4. Eric Baldwin $126,710
- 5. Jose Santos $ 92,150
- 6. Brock Parker $ 66,810
- 7. Matt Ross $ 41,470
On October 9th, a 10-player final table for a Mercedes ML-350 played out in the lobby of the Radisson. The seats were awarded to players at UltimateBet through a series of qualifiers at the online poker site. Elliot Smith left the table with the keys to the Mercedes.
Also held in the tournament room of the Radisson were nightly $500+40 poker tournaments, two separate $2,000+100 No Limit Hold’em tournaments and a $1,000+60 event, providing poker players with ample opportunity to profit from poker while in paradise.
An inside peek at the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic can be found on UltimateBet’s poker blog, accessible on the UltimateBet site.
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