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UB.net Players to Vie for a 12-Event Heartland Poker Tour Pass

Online poker site UB.net will award one lucky player with the ultimate HPT accessory for free, and that means entry into a dozen HPT events of their choice across America.

MIAMI, FL (Marketwire), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 – UB.net, presenting sponsor of the super successful Heartland Poker Tour  (“HPT”), is gearing up to award one lucky online poker player with the ultimate Event Pass to the HPT.

The leading free play online poker site is never just about throwing a logo on a few felts and calling it a sponsorship. This all-new freeroll challenge celebrates the recent announcement of the UB.net and HPT partnership, and it will bestow the Grand Prize Main Event winner with a multi-event pass for a total of 12 HPT live tournaments of choice across Season 7 and 8.

From April 11th, UB.net will host four daily freerolls from Monday through Saturday. They will run every three hours from 3pm until midnight, and they’re all Turbo events.  Finish in the top 50 places of any of these daily freerolls to win a seat into the weekly semi-final on each Sunday at 13:00 ET. Win one of these weekly semi-finals to receive an added bonus poker controller and branded T-shirt, with all final table finishers receiving a T-shirt too.

The top 100 players in each weekly freeroll will also earn automatic entry into the all-important Grand Prize Main Event on Saturday, June 25th at 14:30 ET. Conquer the competition in this Main Event and the HPT 12-Event Pass will be shipped your way.

With a dozen HPT tournament entries on the line, and each running at about $1,650 a pop, that’s almost $20,000 worth of reasons to be in it to win it. Plus, that’s twelve shots at grabbing a piece of TV poker fame – along with some serious prize money - because every HPT Main Event final table is filmed and edited into an hour-long episode of the popular nationwide poker tour.

HPT is available in over 100 million US households in addition to widespread distribution throughout Europe and the Caribbean. Episodes air weekly on a syndicated network of stations available in nearly every American household, including national distribution through DirecTV and DISH Network. Check http://www.hptpoker.com/hptontv.php for the HPT Season 7 episode guide and broadcast schedule.

The leading free-play poker site’s series of online tourneys is firing up the HPT action from April 11th. For full details, visit http://www.ub.net/poker-promotion/hpt-poker.

Go to www.HPTpoker.comfor more information on the HPT.