Ultimate Bet (now known as UB) has been one of the largest and most well-known poker sites on the Net for years. Since they joined forces with Absolute Poker to form the CEREUS Poker Network they have really become a force to be reckoned with.
Not only does UB offer a wide array of games to be played and a large, very fishy player base, but they also offer one of the largest and most generous 1st deposit bonuses in the industry. By using the exclusive Ultimate Bet Referral Code, FTR111, you can get an incredible bonus matching your deposit 111% up to $1,100!
As an additional bonus to FTR members, when you sign up using the Ultimate Bet Referral Code FTR111, you can also gain access to our monthly exclusive tournaments held at Ultimate Bet. These tourneys total $400 in money-added value. Each month Ultimate Bet will host a $100 password protected freeroll, so only players who signed up through FTR will have access. Then, later in the month they will host the FTR5, which is a $5 buy-in tournament with $300 added to the prize pool. So no matter how many players take part in the tournament, there will always be $300 additional added to the prize. How's that for +EV? On top of that, you can play in these tournaments each and every month.
In order to clear your 111% bonus up to $1,100 bonus, you need to earn Status Points. These are earned simply by playing in any real money poker games on UB. There are 5 RAI$E Status levels - Member, Player, Contender, Legend, and Icon. The more points you earn each month, the higher you go on the RAI$E ladder. The higher you go, the easier it becomes to clear bonuses.
Members, Players and Contenders all earn $1 Bonus Dollar for every 20 Status Points they earn. Legends only need 18 points to clear $1 Bonus Dollar and for Icons it's even easier. They only need 17 points for each $1 Bonus Dollar. All bonuses are released in $5 increments, so even if you can't earn the full $1,100, be sure to clear as much as possible during the time the bonus is available (60 days from deposit). So if you are a new player it would take approximately 21,000 Status Points to earn the full $1,100, taking into account that you will likely move up the ladder before the full bonus is cleared. In fact, you would probably have to become an Icon after the first month in order to clear the bonus in the required 60 days. This would likely only be possible at minimum stakes of $.50/$1 with some solid grinding. Playing higher stakes would obviously make this much easier. However, even at lower stakes, like $50NL, you could earn a good chunk of this bonus in 60 days, so it's definitely worth it. It would likely take a good 180,000 hands to clear this bonus at the $50 NL level - quite the grind indeed.
Tournament players will receive 1 Status Point for every $.30 that they pay in tournament entry fees. So for example, a $30 tournament with a $3 fee will earn you 10 Status Points. Also, you can earn partial points, although they are not displayed. So for a $5 + $.50 tournament, you will only earn 1 point. However, the remaining $.20 will be carried over when you buy into your next tournament.
Ring-game players earn points depending on the stakes that they are playing and whether or not it is a limit game or pot-limit/ no-limit game at UB.
For limit games, at stakes of $.01/$.02 to $.02/$.04, 1 point will be earned for every 20 hands that rake is taken from the pot (raked hands). For $.05/$.10 and $.10/$.20 you will earn 1 point for every 15 raked hands. $.25/$.50 only takes 10 hands to earn 1 point and $.50/$1 only takes 5. At $1/$2 you earn a point for every other raked hand and $2/$4 you earn one for each raked hand. When you move up to $3/$6 limit games you get 1.5 Status Points for each raked hand and everything above that earns 2 Points for each raked hand.
Pot-limit and no-limit games are similar. $.01/$.02 stakes earn 1 point for every 15 raked hands. At $.02/$.04 and $.05/$.10 it takes 10 raked hands to earn 1 point. $.10/$.25 earns a point for each 5 raked hands, $.25/$.50 takes 3 hands and $.50/$1 takes 2 to earn 1 point. At $1/$2 no-limit or pot-limit you earn 1 Status Point for each raked hand and $2/$4 to $5/$10 you earn 1.5 Status Points for each raked hand. Above that you get 2 Points per raked hand.
It may seem a little confusing but it seems a very fair system, which has been recently upgraded from their old, very confusing system. Either way, all you really need to know is to be sure and use the Ultimate Bet Referral Code FTR111 when making your first deposit in order to get a 111% match up to $1,100, plus access to our monthly exclusive tournaments. That way you are sure to get the maximum bonus and start earning extra cash on your play right away at Ultimate Bet!
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