The first of six special competitions is set for February 17 with the victor set to receive a share of a £2,000 prize pool and a special experiential prize.
Monday 8th February 2010
Online poker players that like a little something extra from their freeroll competitions should check out UltimateBet.com next week for the chance to win their share of a $2,000 prize pool and possibly skydive with Joe Sebok.
Kahnawake-licensed UltimateBet.com is set to host six 2010 UB Pro Social Freeroll Challenge Texas hold’em events over the next eleven months with each one hosted by a different professional player sponsored by the site.
For each event, the freeroll winner will be treated to a once in a lifetime experiential ‘lifestyle component’ prize designed by the pro themselves.
As a way of making the events more interesting, each pro has been set a special challenge of beating their compatriots and attracting the most players to their freeroll. The winner is to receive $2,500 to spend on anything during a night out in Las Vegas while the pro that attracted the lowest number of participants will be forced to serve as a concierge.
Thirty-two-year-old Sebok is up first on January 17 offering the winner a share of $2,000 prize pool and the chance to join him in a Las Vegas skydiving experience entitled the Leap Of Faith. The triumphant amateur will then get to jump out of an aeroplane over the Nevada desert alongside the pro and rocket towards the ground at up to 200 miles per hour.
However, for those players that prefer to remain grounded, the American revealed that would substitute his skydiving experience for something ‘just as exciting’.
