Ultimate Bet has just released the Mac Version of Online Poker Software for Apple Users and now Apple users have another reason to get excited as the leading online poker site launches Mac OS X version of their popular poker software.

This September, UltimateBet has done it again with its new Mac-compatible online poker client, providing Mac players everywhere with supreme access to the addictive games that PC can enjoy at the leading online poker room. Now a complete Mac-friendly version of the UltimateBet poker software has finally arrived.

UB Mac is designed specifically to cater to the requirements of online gamers and to deliver the ultimate online poker version for the Apple-compatible web-based program. Being a Mac fan now means you can be part of the ultimate online poker community without lesser parallels or other Windows on Mac emulators.

The new software allows Mac players to have access exclusive features and functionality that UB users playing on Windows-compatible computers have, including all the ring games, satellites, single and multi-table Hold ‘em tournaments, and single player Blackjack. Other poker rooms for Mac!

Meanwhile, there comes the launch of UB’s No Download Poker Games option, which allows both PC and Mac users the ability to play at UltimateBet anytime, anywhere. Just click and play from any internet browser, no matter where you are. It’s UB Instant Play, and it’s your ticket to the UB tables when you’re either traveling, or perhaps just don’t want to download the software. More No Download poker!

The full live version of the UB Mac software will be available for download at UltimateBet.com.

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.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » September 2nd, 2009

Leading online poker sites UltimateBet and Absolute Poker today revealed a revamped Tournament Leaderboard competition for 2009, raising the stakes to give online poker players at both sites a million reasons to keep on coming back.

This year’s Tournament Leaderboard competitions combines both online poker sites on the CEREUS Poker Network  to create an even more lucrative yearly prize pool of over $1 Million, and is guaranteed to give players  the benefit of more prize money on the table in the weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboard competitions at UltimateBet and Absolute Poker.

The changes to the system incorporates real-time leaderboard status updates, and delivers a more user-friendly Tournament Leaderboard page, so that players can instantly and effortlessly see where they rank in the current pecking order  at any given time. A highlight of the June re-launch includes the Yearly Tournament Leaderboard with a total prize pool of $100,000 up for grabs, with $50,000 awarded to the top 10 finishers, including cash and Aruba Poker Clascis prize packages to the top 3 places.

The top 100 players of the year will also be invited to participate in a $50,000 Yearly Tournament Leaderboard freeroll. Players at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker are automatically enrolled into the site’s weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboard competitions.

To climb to the top of the leaderboard ladder, the winning player must collect the most points by doing well in a lot of big tournaments. There is no fee to join in the Leaberboard competitions, and now that both online poker sites employ the same unique tournament leaderboard formula, it is arguably the best Leaderboard Competition in the business.

“I love a good contest at the poker tables,” said 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth.  “With $100,000 now on the line for free, and state of the art technology to check out where you stand on the leader board, let the games begin!”

The leaderboard ranking system is designed to account for the varying levels of skill in different buy-in tournaments and the number of players in a tournament. The higher a player cashes in a tournament, and the bigger the prize pool, the more points he or she will earn.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » June 10th, 2009

Last week, Absolute Poker and UltimateBet Poker, both under the ownership of Tokwiro Enterprises, finally made the long-awaited merge onto the Cereus Poker Network moving it to the number 6 position this week, stunning Everest Poker.

Cereus was just barely fighting off Microgaming’s poker network in order to secure the number 7 spot last month.

However, Cereus owns a comfortable 400 average real cash player lead this week leading over Microgaming which is at number 8. Both of them were averaging just over 150 more real cash players than Everest. Even more remarkably, as the online poker network gains significant ground on OnGame, Cereus could end up in the top 5. Although it was a mere 350 average real cash players behind OnGame this week.

The increased traffic for Cereus could be at least partially attributed to UltimateBet’s spokeswoman, Annie Duke, appearing on this season’s Celebrity Apprentice.

“A major increase in traffic had occurred as a result of Ms. Duke’s appearance on the show,” revealed Paul Leggett, the CEO of the Cereus Group.

The final two weeks of the Celebrity Apprentice provided monster traffic numbers, all people searching for Annie Duke and the Celebrity Apprentice, along with some betting odds inquiries.

The point to be noted over here is that few of the online gambling websites were proffering Celebrity Apprentice betting odds during the second half of the show following some leaks and unusual betting patterns at the start of the season, most of which eventually came to fruition. 

Cereus Group has had to overcome major obstacles, including a high profile “cheating scandal” that found its way onto a segment of 60 Minutes over the past year and a half.

Leggett expressed that he was committed to ensuring UltimateBet.com and Absolute Poker’s integrity from this point further and that any “rotten eggs” that may have contributed to the compromise of their previous software platform are no longer associated with the company.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » June 3rd, 2009

Ultimatebet.com  (”UB”) and Absolutepoker.com (”AP”), which are both powered by CEREUS Poker Network and are taking the famous public concept ‘bigger and better’ to a next level has announced a  $530,000 Point Race. Online poker players should gear up their engines to enjoy the high octane poker action on both of the websites for a $ 53,000 contest which has got underway from April 15th.

If you love to lock your poker into overdrive, all you do need to do is to play in any of UltimateBet or Absolute Poker’s ring games i-e Multi Table tournaments or Sit and Gos between April 15th and June 15th. You can be on track to victory by playing in any real money raked ring grame by racking up as many RAI$E STATUS Points at ultimatebet.com  or fame status points at absolutepoker.com.

There is a serious cash at stake,  and every point earned will move the player close to the winners podium. Once the qualifying period is over, the top 500 points earners on the CEREUS rake race leaderboard will share prizes upto $500,000, which includes $25,000 for the finisher on the first place, $220000 for the runner up, and 200000 for the player on third spot. The player who earns  top 1,000 STATUS Point will have a seat reserved in the $30,000 Rackrace free roll that is taking place on june 28th at 2:00 pm ET.

Both leading poker sites ultimate bet.com  (”UB”) and absolute poker.com (”AP”)are committed to turn online poker tables into a race track, the present offer show their commitment to the promise of a bigger and better online experience for poker players on both websites. Player should settle in on the drivers seat and start earning status points in order to grab their share out of the $530,000 huge amount.

Full details on the CEREUS Rake Race promotion can be found at ultimatebet.com and Absolute Poker.com.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Promotions | No Comments » April 20th, 2009

A highly unfortunate online poker player at AbsolutePoker managed to turn around his fortune last Friday and all that was required of him was to lose. On Valentine’s eve, HDCOWBOY was dealt with an amazing quad eights in a no-limit Hold’em table while his rival held the best poker hand in one of the coldest hands; four kings. Receiving the cue to unveil the massive amount of money at AbsolutePoker the bad beat jackpot during that particular time stood at $813,341.85. HDCOWBOY left with a sum of $264,418.89 while the winner got $132,995.95. The others at the table received over $1k and1028 players left with $82.79. Not a generous amount you would think but if you are earning that much by just sitting at the bad beat jackpot table ,it is still worth something.

After just completing a target of giving their loyal customers a payout of $32 million on January 31st, the CEREUS poker network’s jackpot game, Bad Beats has given out over $800 to several lucky players on Valentine’s. HDCOWBOY, a Pennsylvanian Resident managed to win a grand total of $813,341.85 for Absolute Poker players just in time for Valentine’s Days on 13th January. He was overpowered by his opponent and lost his jackpot at a game of Texas Hold’em to four kings. The other five players at the table no doubt enjoyed winning over $1000. Besides spending a much happier Valentine’s Day and sharing it with that significant someone, HDCOWBOY also plans to pay off a huge portion of his home mortgage with his prize money.

Only a couple of days later another lucky player, SFBEGGARS landed with $308,156.46 on Sunday 15th February at 12.55 EST and left with a total of $100,346.90. Bad beats is a progressive jackpot network game that keeps 50 cents of each qualifying Texas Hold’em hand and adds it to the ever growing pool, until a player decides to put his unfortunate fate to a tests . 65% of the jackpot is distributed among the Bad Beats Jackpot players while some of the remaining portion goes back in, towards the next losing hand jackpot. Don’t be disappointed if you think you are too lucky for this game, maybe your luck will still award you a small portion of the hefty payout and all you have to do is to have the same limit and game type when seated at a Bad Beat Jackpot.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Promotions | No Comments » February 21st, 2009

Online poker can be a way of life for some people, it can help them relax and at the same time provide them with a taste of the risky side of life. Every day new softwares are created to help Poker customers enjoy the luxuries of playing online at ease and at the same time give them a sense of security.

The CEREUS poker network has launched a series of new features and twists that will be available to its clients on an immediate basis. The Players of both Absolute Poker and Ultimate bet will have access to all these new features which were a result of the feedback acquired from the third largest online poker community. These features include:

- Game Speed Increase – A significant increase in the speed of the game, including the dealing of hand and the final hand result will be noticed.
- Buddy Max Limit – The preceding cap of 500 players on both Ultimate Buddy and Absolute Buddy has been increased up to 2000.
-Heads Up Kick Off Limit – A new 5-minute rule has been applied to the ‘Sit Out’ function of heads-up matches (ring games only) to provide a more enjoyable experience for poker fans.
- Disable Enter to Bet – Players can immobilize the ‘Enter to Bet’ function to evade accidental betting while switching between programs.
-Remember Login – If a player successfully logs in but does not use the ‘Remember Password’ feature, the software will shrewdly remember the last successful login name.
- Disable Blackjack on Table – Players will now be able to disable blackjack from specific tables instead of just disabling it globally.
The members of the Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker communities can rest assure about the security, response and flexibility of the online poker gaming arena as after 12 months of development CEREUS assures its clients an enhanced gaming experience. Launching to rave reviews on November 25th CEREUS’s new poker platform is backed by leading technology and 24/7 Security Centre to deliver an impermeable gaming environment. The new twists involve countless new additions to both poker sites such as new table views, ability to create private tournaments, final table deal making, a time bank; avatars, personalization tools and many more.

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What more can a poker player ask for. You can have entertainment, fun, security and adventure all in one pot. Players seeking to avail this opportunity can acquire the new features through the expanded poker network.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » December 14th, 2008