Annie Duke on Celebrity Apprentice

UltimateBet’s got your Sunday nights sewn up with a satisfying TV/poker combo, so break out the popcorn and kick back to catch UltimateBet poker icon Annie Duke in the new season of NBC’s smash hit reality series Celebrity Apprentice. Unfortunately the show isn’t being broadcast in the UK just yet but you can catch it on NBC.com.

To celebrate Duke’s selection in the all-star TV lineup, UltimateBet is mirroring the season two run of Celebrity Apprentice with an online poker promotion scheduled for Sundays at 10:00pm E.T., tagged Annie Duke’s Apprentice Challenge; it’s a points-based buy-in tournament series that will award one lucky poker player with an $ 8500 prize package for this year’s Aruba Poker Classic.

So, while Annie Duke will be playing to raise funds for charity of choice Refugees International, you can play along at home in Annie Duke’s Apprentice Challenge online poker contest, with the ultimate aim of securing a little piece of Poker paradise, a $ 5500 seat for the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic plus $ 3000 for travel expenses.

“I’m thrilled that UB has put together a promotion allowing their players to play along with me on my Apprentice journey. I’m looking forward to spending some one-on-one time with the winner in Aruba 2009!” said UltimateBet Card Room Consultant Annie Duke.

Here’s how you can win that coveted seat in Aruba, plus share in thousands of dollars worth of other online tournament entries:

Main Event – Monday, May 18th at 8:30pm ET

Buy-in – 5,000 UltimatePoints

• 1st Place – $ 8,500 Aruba Poker Classic prize package
• 2nd through 5th Place – $ 100k Deep Stack entry
• 6th through 10th Place – $ 40k Sniper Saturday entry

For the next 11 weeks, Sunday nights are all about Annie. Watch one of the most competitive players in poker as she shifts her focus from calling the shots at the felt to impressing the reality show’s ultimate arbiter, Donald Trump, all in the name of charity. Discover how Annie Duke fares in the high-flying world of big business and how long she manages to avoid the ultimate bad beat – hearing The Donald deliver the two most feared words to slip from his lips “You’re Fired!”

Full details on Annie Duke’s Apprentice Challenge can be found at UltimateBet.com