Mon, 01/24/2011 – 21:56 – PokerPages Staff
The sixth installment of the UB.com Online Championship (UBOC) continued on Saturday as Events #14 and #15 played down to the wire on the virtual felt.
261 runners met the $215 buy in for the No Limit Hold’em Turbo Triple Chance. The fast paced nature of the event whittled the field down to the leading nine in quick time.
Mike ’1GOLEAFSGOEH1′ Leah ($26,000) won out after an epic heads-up battle against ‘P0KERCCINI’ ($15,500). The Canadian has been in superb form on the virtual felt having placed second in the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee two weeks ago.
Jon “PEARLJAMMED’ Turner crashed the top three for an $11,000 pay day. Turner has an excellent online tournament resume having taken down the PokerStars Super Tuesday, Sunday 500 and Nightly Hundred Grand events.
‘VIKINGLOCO’ ($8,000), ‘ROUNDER63′ ($6,550), ‘DOCTORDOKTOR’ ($5,550), ‘BUNCOE’ ($4,500), ‘CHECKSHOVINU’ ($3,500) and ‘TARHEELKID23′ ($2,500) also posted impressive scores.
137 players met sat down for the $1,050 No Limit Hold’em Heads Up contest. Joe ‘JBLAZE20′ Chaplin bested ‘WAMMERMOUTH’ in heads-up play to win the $37,000 jackpot.
Chaplin, a former online tournament Triple Crown winner, has added an UBOC title to his Full Tilt $1K Monday and Full Tilt $150,000 Guaranteed triumphs,
Amit ‘AMAK316′ Makhija, Michael ‘XWYWROTX’ Wywrot and Mark ‘DIPTHRONG’ Herm were among the notable players who rode the money bubble to cash.
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