Overall Review


You're looking at the home of Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Antonio Esfandiari and Dave Ulliot. Ultimate Bet is a great poker room with a generous sign up bonus and a decent loyalty system. It looks strong with all of its tournaments and qualifiers plus all the promotions. The competition softness is a bit tight, especially at medium to high stakes, but the large number of high stake players make up for this flaw. We particularly like the improvements Ultimate Bet forced into the software to get back in the action with the big competition. Most of the traffic is concentrated to Texas Hold'em, although this is hardly a big deal to most poker players. All in all, Ultimate Bet receives a recommendation if you're looking for some good action even at high stakes and a sturdy sign up bonus.

In our previous Ultimate Bet reviews, we spent much time criticizing the poor lobby software. The complaints have been heard and the necessary improvements have been made. Ultimate Bet has gone from being an average poker room, now blossoming as state of the art software. Sadly, there are no proper lobby filters available, which is setback since Ultimate Bet accommodates quite a few players. The poker table is where the real fun begins. This is one of the best table we have seen. It sports a 3D perspective and captures the true feeling you get when you play real life poker. We adore the mini table function - which is not unique in any way - but so simple and so much better than what is offered at other sites. There's also a buddy function, very good statistics and a plethora of options. The only real miss here is in the full table which lacks a numeric pot size counter.

Ultimate Bet is one of the largest poker rooms on the internet. During peak hours we sometimes see 25,000 simultaneous connections. Approximately 40 % of the connections are ring game players, the rest is tournament traffic. Most of it is concentrated to Texas Hold'em, but finding a good game of Omaha and 7 Card Stud should be easy.

The most promising part of Ultimate Bet is the tournament schedule. You can join the World Poker Tour qualifiers as well as the World Series of Poker qualifiers. Either way, you're up for some tough competition. There's also a bunch of freerolls, but you will have to be pretty quick to get a spot. There are some regular multi table tournaments as well, ranging from a $1 buy-in to $200. There's also a big bunch of direct entry and entry chip satellites, starting at $3. Most of the tournaments are leveled at $20.