Online Poker Site to Fly Players to Aruba

Ultimate Bet, a major online poker site, has announced that the players competing in the Aruba Poker Classic on Saturday use its private jet to travel to the event from the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Turks and Caicos Poker Classic.

Ultimate Bet poker is a member of Excapsa network (which accepts us poker players), one of the world's largest poker room networks, and features an assortment of low and high-limit games. For $550, players will be permitted to ride on the company’s private aircraft after playing the WPT Turks and Caicos event and have a break in extravagance as they travel to the next destination, Aruba, for the Poker Classic.

The online poker site said that those not benefiting from this offer would have travel time totaling at least eleven hours as well as being required to transfer through Miami, Florida. The journey on the private jet will take two hours from poker tournament to poker tournament.

The annual Aruba Poker Classic is scheduled at the Radisson Resort and Casino and it has grown significantly in the past seven years. This year’s event promises to be the biggest event yet with a projected $2.5 million prize pool.

The Resort has 353 guest rooms and suites, marble bathrooms and colonial-style furnishings with spacious balconies. Additionally guests can take advantage of stylish swimming pools, beachside dining and restaurants alongside water sports, a spa or the 16,000 square foot themed usa casino. The plan for the event is a lavish one, which has progressively gotten better since the event was held first in 2000.