2005 World Blackjack Champ, Ken Einiger, Wins
Ultimate Blackjack Tour's St. Kitts Classic
LOS
ANGELES — Proving that skill and experience are
valuable assets in the Ultimate Blackjack Tour (UBT),
World Champ Ken Einiger took down a field of pros and
novices alike at the St. Kitts Classic Friday to add
another notch to his highly-decorated blackjack belt.
Einiger cashed in for $64,000 in prize money during
the no holds barred Elimination Blackjack™ tournament,
as well as his second gold UBT champion’s necklace
and a $10,000 seat at the year-end UBT championship
at California’s Barona Valley Ranch Resort &
Casino, which boasts a $1 million guaranteed first place
prize with an estimated $2 to $3 million total prize
package. CBS will televise Einiger’s masterful
performance during a 2007 airing of Ultimate Blackjack
Tour.
"I’ve
played in hundreds of blackjack tournaments, and with
the exception of my World Blackjack Championship in
2005, none were as exciting as this,” said Einiger.
“I wrote the official book on how to succeed in
UBT’s Elimination Blackjack™ tournaments,
so I guess it’s fitting that I bring home a couple
championships along the ride.”
Einiger is a member of the fourteen player Team UBT,
which includes well-known card pros Phil Hellmuth, Annie
Duke, Freddy Deeb, Antonio Esfandiari, Anthony Curtis
and many others. His latest book Play to Win: A World
Champion’s Guide to Winning Blackjack Tournaments
was updated this year to include Elimination Blackjack™
tournament strategies and insights. Monica Reeves, an
up and coming star in the PlayUBT.com
ranks, who won a season one tournament, attributes much
of her success to the tips she picked up after studying
Einiger’s book.
The
St. Kitts tournament was the second of several stops
along Ultimate Blackjack Tour’s inaugural world
tour, which brings Elimination Blackjack™ to major
casinos in Las Vegas, California, Paris, the Caribbean
and several other internationally known gaming locales.
The ten-episode first season of Ultimate Blackjack
Tour, currently airing nationwide on CBS with record-breaking
numbers, features the world’s top poker and blackjack
pros in cut-throat action against the dealer, and one
another. Chock full of forced eliminations, secret bets
and smash mouth trash talking, the season also includes
two special episodes: The Ladies of Blackjack, which
showcases top female gamblers the likes of Annie Duke,
Jennifer Tilly, Monica Reeves and Erica Schoenburg,
and The Legends of Blackjack, featuring Einiger against
pro blackjack cohorts Anthony Curtis, Sanford Wong,
and others in exciting, head-to-head competition.
Additionally, through its web site, PlayUBT.com,
Ultimate Blackjack Tour is doing something never been
done before. UBT is currently holding free online tournaments
where winners earn seats to the UBT season two final
tables to be televised on CBS in 2007. The site also
provides Elimination Blackjack™ tournament tips,
tour information, and in-depth analysis of the televised
events.
UBT Press Contacts:
Fifteen Minutes PR (Los Angeles)
Ryan Croy 323/556-9700, ext. 306 Ryan@FifteenMinutes.com
Howard Bragman 323/556-9700, ext. 333 Howard@FifteenMinutes.com
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