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Go to Aruba with Annie Duke

March 17, 2009
Contributed by: G.L. Hodges
Go to Aruba with Annie DukeThe challenge is on for you to go to Aruba, meaning that during the month of March, your Sunday’s just got a lot more exciting! Get ready because now, while you watch Annie Duke on Celebrity Apprentice, you can win your way to Aruba from Ultimate Bet Poker!

Be sure to tune in to NBC on Sunday nights at 9p.m. ET to watch Ultimate Bet’s Annie Duke, one of the most competitive players in the world of Texas Hold 'em, give her all - to make an impression on Donald Trump! Annie will now have her dominating focus on the business world instead of the poker world, to do her Ultimate Best by using her business knowledge to stay in the challenge of becoming a part of the Celebrity Apprentice. Instead of working to achieve being the last person at the green felt tables, she will now be battling it out to be the last one standing and the only one who does not here the well-known words “You’re Fired!” from Donald Trump!



While you watch as Annie Duke plays for charity, you will have the opportunity to play along at home for your very own Aruba Poker Classic prize package, by participating in the Annie Duke's Apprentice Challenge online poker contest! Think of it as your personal “Trump card” for your support of the celebrity apprentice challenge!

The Main Event will take place on Monday, May 18th at 8:30 p.m. ET with a direct buy-in of 5,000 Ultimate Points. The lucky and savvy first place finisher will walk away with an $8,500 Aruba Poker Classic prize package! Those who finish 2nd through 5th Place will be awarded a $100k Deep Stack entry and those finishing 6th through 10th Place will receive a $40k Sniper Saturday entry!

Are you feeling up to your own challenge? Then you can earn your seat in the Main Event through Ultimate Bet Poker’s qualifier tournaments! Ultimate Bet Poker will be running daily qualifiers at both 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm ET that guarantee a minimum of one seat in the Sunday Satellite that will run weekly at 10:00 p.m. ET. In addition, Ultimate Bet Poker will also run Sunday Qualifiers at 2pm, 4pm 6pm, 7pm, and 7:30pm ET, all of which will guarantee at least one seat in the Sunday Satellite. Or you can take the easy road and buy-in to the Sunday satellite with 500 Ultimate Points. What a deal because each Sunday Satellite guarantees to pay out at least one seat to the Main Event!

The Aruba Poker Classic is sponsored by Ultimate Bet Poker and is one hot and exciting event you won’t want to miss! In last year’s 7th annual Aruba Poker Classic event, over 550 players battled it out for a prize pool of $2,755,000! In the end, it was 27-year-old Matt Brady of Havertown, PA who went on to win the top prize of $1 million! The event was also noted for the endless parties with the world’s best poker players and Hollywood celebrities in a true setting of island paradise!

Don’t miss your opportunity to join the party and the excitement at this year’s Aruba Poker Classic! Download Ultimate Bet Poker and receive a special deposit bonus of 111% up to $1,100! Then start playing at Ultimate Bet Poker today and remember to tune in to watch Annie Duke in the Celebrity Apprentice, Sunday nights on NBC!

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