Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker is one of the most known online poker rooms that many consider as the second leading poker site in the world. Every player knows the direct competition between Full Tit Poker and Poker Stars, each of them always trying to come up with new rewards and new bonuses for their members. This permanent challenge creates an attractive environment for every player.
The Full Tilt Poker site was launched in 2004 and has succeeded to maintain its customers and particularly those residing in the USA even after the introduction of UIGEA restrictions. The Full Tilt Poker advertising campaign has as image ones of the most popular professional poker players at the moment such as Tom “durrrr” Dwan. It is a big source of motivation and learning having such competitors on the site and to be able to challenge them. The list of professional players is impressing: John Juanda, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman, Erick Lindgren, Phil Gordon, Gus Hansen, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, Allen Cunningham and Patrik Antonius.
Welcome Bonus
The main strategy that Full Tit Poker is applying is player retention – which is accomplished with nice bonuses that makes the users be loyal to the site. The Welcome bonus offered represents 100% of the deposit value and can reach up to $600. The bonus can be received in free poker chips. For the existing members there are random bonuses most of them not requiring a deposit. To clear your bonus is very easy. The site is awarding Frequent Player Points (FPP) on every poker game or tournament. The value of every point is equal to $0,06. The site releases the bonus you earned either at10% or $20, depending of what comes first.
Games
The following games are available to play in no limit, fixed limit, pot limit or mixed limit options: Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Hold’Em Poker. Hi, Hi-Lo and Razz (low) options are offered for stud games. A large variety of mixed games are available, such as H.O.S.E.,H.A or H.O.R.S.E. This may represent an excellent choice for the players who want to implement a little diversity in their gaming activity.
Tournaments
The tournaments at Full Tit Poker are scheduled to offer nonstop gaming opportunities for all the players. The three major styles of tournaments are raining on the site: single-Table Sit and Go (SNG) tournaments, Multi Table (MTT) tournaments and Multi-Table SNGs. The tournament schedule has all kinds of different contests with guaranteed cash prizes. In the Full Tilt Poker Lobby in Pink are listed all the prize pool tournaments.
Among the unusual but also very interesting tournaments are the knockout tournaments that are very similar to bounty tournaments where players have a bounties on the top of their head. In these tournaments a small amount of every buy in is awarded to the players’ bounty. You can win this game buy knocking a player out even before the game ends.
Sunday is the most important day on Full Tit Poker. One of the biggest and important events is the Big Money Sundays tournament which is a very popular poker tournament with prizes more than $1,000,000 in cash. The number one tournament is the Sunday $750k GTD. Another attractive event is the 200k Double Deuce in which you have to check in for 20$ to be able to win a share to a prize pool with rewards from at least $200.
Freerolls are also present in large number on the site. There 12 satellite poker tournaments going on every day on Full Tit Poker each of them offering the chance to participate in the $1,000.00 weekly freeroll poker tournaments. If your seat is not a winning one then you won’t get in because this tournament is based on invites only. To be able to win a seat you have to finish in the top 250 players.
Software
The software that is running on the Full Tit Poker is one of the most elaborated and constantly updated poker platforms in the world at the moment. The navigation is very simple and the graphics are extraordinary. A small coin is that from the lobby section you cannot see the tournaments names. I n order to play a certain tournament you’ll have to go in the tournament page and see what it’s all about. The large tournaments with a big number of players are easy to see but can be really difficult to track the small ones in the FTP lobby.
Except this maybe minor thing the Full Tit Poker platform does not have any other weak points. The software is costumed with interesting table designs, cute avatars and multi-table options. It charges and it runs very smooth on your system.
There are even some special futures than allow to ‘Run It Twice’ or ‘Find a Player’ which will help you to find your favorite fish the games with high stakes. Nice features like essential lobby stats, hand histories charts or detachable chat room make the paying activity a very pleasant experience. Every action of the game is accompanied with realistic sounds that can be switched on/off. These are just some of the nice features that Full Tit Poker offers, the rest of them you’ll have to discover yourself.
Payments
MasterCard, Visa, Click2Pay, Cash Transfer, Check and Instant E-Check.
Support
At the Full Tit Poker there isn’t available a phone support but the email support they offer is one of the fastest among the others online Poker casinos. The average time of response to an email is a few minutes.
