UBOC5 Day Three Recap: Trishelle Cannatella Hosts the Sniper NLH $100K GTD Trishelle Cannatella Absolute Poker DOUGTHEASIAN calls the shots to take down UBOC Event #4, and IRONCITYKID rises to the top of the pack in the corresponding $10K Mini-UBOC Event. SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA (Saturday, August 21, 2010) - UB'S Online Poker Championship Series, which guarantees over $4 Million in tournament money and competition prizes, continued on Friday, August 20th with the fourth of the UBOC5 tournament schedule's twenty guaranteed events, attracting 732 players to the tables for the Sniper No Limit Hold 'em $100K GTD, hosted by Absolute Poker pro Trishelle Cannatella. "I had so much fun last night chatting with everyone in UBOC4. Was happy to cash but looking forward to FT in my next event UBOC11. Hope to see some of the same people very soon," said Cannatella. UB's $150+12 buy-in Sniper event, which kicked off at 20:05 ET last night, offered a prize pool of $100,000. Aside from the ever-popular TRISHELLE_C (68th for $250), a number of Team UB Pros turned out for the $100K GTD event, including TIFFANY MICHELLE (285th), JOE SEBOK (602nd), MARK 'P0KER H0' KROON (626th) and HOLLYWOOD DAVE (618th). Are you ready to play online poker? Sign-up at Poker Host and receive a 100% Sign-up Bonus! Besides excepting U.S. poker players, huge bonuses, 24/7 customer service and fast, easy and secure deposit methods, they still boast the LOOSEST TABLES filled with fish making their players WIN & LOYAL! With over $5 million in guaranteed poker tournaments, earn FPP Points for free-roll rournaments and play some cards with poker pro "Cowboy" Kenna James right now at PokerHost.com! After almost nine hours of play, YUMI555 went All-In with pocket kings, and DOUGTHEASIAN called with As-3d. The flop came 4d-5h-7s, with the turn showing 6s, but the 7h on the river was no help for YUMI555. DOUGTHEASIAN's Straight three to seven beat YUMI555's two pair, kings and sevens. As the last two players at the final table, DOUGTHEASIAN and YUMI555 had requested a deal be done, splitting the remaining prize pool of $37,500 evenly, leaving aside the $2,000 for the winner. * DOUGTHEASIAN banked $19,750, while YUMI555 scored the remaining $17,750. Pro Bounty winners each picked up $200 in T$s and a limited edition UBOC Sniper T-shirt for knocking a Team UB pro out of contention: PUTON416 (Joe Sebok) _M_P_R_ (Tiffany Michelle) HEREFIJIFIJI (Trishelle Cannatella) XTHESTEINX (Hollywood Dave) 1SUGAR1FOOT1 (P0ker H0) UBOC5 Event #4 (Sniper NLH) Buy-in: $150+12 Prize Pool: $109,800 + $14,640 Bounties Entrants: 732 1. DOUGTHEASIAN - *$19,750 ($23,250) 2. YUMI555 -*$17,750 ($14,250) 3. MEEK312 - $9,500 4. STACKOLOGIST - $6,600 Other Notables: 7TEMPEHEAT7 in 9th ($1,750) and A2STEAKSAUCE in 45th place ($400) The Mini-UBOC continued alongside the UBOC5 event, with a corresponding Sniper NLH tournament, hosted by online player TRADEBYDAY, a former day trader who swapped the financials market for fulltime poker back in 2007. The $15+1.50 buy-in tournament drew 1,294 runners, creating a prize pool of $14, 234 - easily surpassing the $10,000 guarantee. IRONCITYKID steered his way through the field to walk away with first prize of $3,038.95. MINI-UBOC5 Event #4 (Sniper NLH) Buy-in: $15+1.50 Prize Pool: $14,234 + $5,176 Bounties Entrants: 1,294 1. IRONCITYKID - $3,038.95 2. CHIPFERG - $1,777.82 3. ED_ANGELIS - $1,252.59 4. BIG_DRAG - $910.97 Notable finishes: TOOHOTTOTROT in 13th place ($106.75) and PBDRUNKS in 33rd ($59.78) Win your seat into the next 2010 WSOP or WPT event by joining Bodog Poker and playing in a satellite tournament! NEXT UP ON THE UBOC5 SCHEDULE: Saturday, August 21st UBOC5 EVENT # 5 - NLH Heads Up Time: 14:00 ET Host: ANNIE DUKE Buy-in: $1000+50 Guarantee: $128,000 UBOC5 EVENT #6 - Pro Bounty ($200) NLH 2X SS Time: 16:00 ET Host: Team UB Pros Buy-in: $200+15 Guarantee: $100,000 Mini-UBOC Event #5 - NLH Heads Up Time: 14:00 ET Host: FEINT Buy-in: $10+1 Guarantee: $2,560 Mini-UBOC Event #6 - NLH Turbo 2X Short stack Time: 16:00 ET Host: AIRKID3 Buy-in: $20+2 Guarantee: $10,000 And don't forget the Deepstack NLH 6-MAX $500K GTD, scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, August 22nd at 16:00 ET. Eric Baldwin will do the honors in the Tournament Host's chair, and with half-a-million bucks on the line, that's plenty of reasons to get in on the UBOC5 action. Follow UB's Live Coverage here http://blog.ub.com/category/online-championship/ Join us for real times updates over on Twitter http://twitter.com/ub (UBOC will be referenced with #UBOC) About UB.com Raise. Stack. Own. 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