Full Tilt Poker is the 2nd largest online poker room in the world. The site is famous for being the online poker home of many famous poker pros including Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, and Jennifer Harman, just to name a few. Aside from the many features which make this room a leader in the online poker industry, Full Tilt has some of the best poker bonuses available to online poker players. Read more below ...
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General Overview:
Full Tilt Poker was created in 2004, and is currently one of the largest and top ranked poker sites on the internet. The site currently attracts between 6-9,000 cash game and 30-50,000 tournament players on a daily basis. Aside from its massive array of different available games, Full Tilt is also the home of some of poker’s most famous pro’s. The list of players who regularly spend time at Full Tilt’s tables includes Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Gus Hansen, Mike Matusow, Allen Cunningham and Andy Bloch. As they make use of all the different games available at Full Tilt, these pros can be watched in the midst of action, or spoken to via Full Tilt’s built in chat function.
Full Tilt offers a full range of gaming experiences including rooms for Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo, Five-Card Draw, Razz and a range of different mix-em up games. The site was one of the first online poker sites to offer super high stake levels at levels like $200/$400, $300/$600, and $500/$1000. These levels of action have been responsible for attracting some of world’s best professional and amateur players to Full Tilt’s card rooms. The software used by this site is stable and updated frequently. Creative cartoon-like graphics with editable avatar expressions can add an element to online gaming which typically does not exist on other sites.
On the whole Full Tilt is a great site and has enough game variety for both sophisticated and novice players to find exactly what they’re looking for.
Promotions:
At any given time Full Tilt poker has between 15-20 different poker promotions happening simultaneously. Typical promotions include the site’s 100% signup bonus, its weekly $750K guaranteed tournament, the monthly $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament, exotic trips, professional poker pro challenges etc. Like other online gaming sites, Full Tilt sends many players a year to large guaranteed live tournaments like the Turks and Caicos WPT challenge, and the world famous Aussie Millions tournament in Melbourne Australia. Prize packages given away by this site can range from between $12,000 and $18,000 US and usually include tourney buy-ins, hotels, flights, and even spending money. For those players who perform well at live tournaments, there is always also the lucrative prospect of being asked to join the Full Tilt team of professionals at future tournaments.
Some of the site’s more simple promotions include flashy Full Tilt gear, it’s $100 sign-up-a-friend bonus, and its constant array of freeroll tournaments with varying levels of prize pools, satellite entries, and other fun promotions.
Software & Graphics:
Full Tilt features stable software, simple and customizable graphics, and a user lobby which can be used to easily find whatever type of game, tournament, or stake level you are looking for. Both the site’s network and software have been engineered and developed by Full Tilt, and are updated frequently in order to ensure high levels of security, smooth operation, and a user friendly operating platform. From a user’s perspective, the site offers excellent functionality and provides all the standard play features that online poker players have come to expect. The player lobby displays several general statistics on each occupied room, and additional stats are available to users while a game is in play. The available statistics are useful in determining where your strengths have been in previous situations. Players can write notes on their competitors easily and intuitively and can also review previous hand histories on demand. Multi-table play is easily supported by Full Tilt’s software with individual users being able to play in up to 8 different rooms simultaneously. Each playing window can be tiled or cascaded easily, or set up in mini-view format easily. Even thought there may be plenty of action occurring at once, the software is designed to indicate when it is your time to act during each game you’re involved in. Graphics at Full Tilt are simple, but entertaining and there are a wide variety of different avatars, deck styles, and backgrounds to choose from. The software automatically remembers any customized graphics settings you’ve enabled in order to ensure that they will remain the same each time you play. Generally, Full Tilt is a great place to play poker, and there are great updates being make to both software and graphics on an ongoing basis.
Tournaments and Sit ‘n’ Go’s:
Full Tilt features enough tournaments each week to boast an impressive $5 Million in total guaranteed prize money. This means that on a monthly basis the site hosts over $20 Million worth of guaranteed prizes! It is no surprise that with this much prize money being awarded on an ongoing basis, Full Tilt typically attracts over 50,000 players to its various scheduled tournaments at peak operating hours. Tournaments are available in all shapes and sizes at this site and range in almost all buy-in levels between $1 and $1000. While most tournaments are for Hold’em players only, Full Tilt is big enough to offer regularly scheduled tournaments in Omaha, H.O.R.S.E, Razz, and even Stud formats. Top prizes for tourneys at this site range just as greatly as the buy-ins. For lower stakes competitions 1st place winners may earn $25 while some of the larger promotional tourneys pay out in excess of $100,000.
Sit ‘n’ Go’s are incredibly popular at Full Tilt and exist at many different stake levels and formats. Single table, multi table, and heads-up action is all available for buy-ins as low as $1. This site also features turbo, short-handed, and re-buy matches together with several other popular variations. There is so much traffic at Full Tilt that there is rarely a large waiting time between finding the Sit ‘n’ Go you’re looking for, and having the game begin. This is certainly one of the advantages to using a site with its own highly popular private network.
Promotional tournaments at Full Tilt include the site’s mega guarantee $100,000, $750,000, and $1,000,000, as well as a large number of freeroll tournaments for the player who enjoys testing their luck for free. Freeroll prizes range from guaranteed prize pools to placements in upcoming tournaments and Sit ‘n’ Go’s.
Game Variety:
Full Tilt Poker offers every standard poker variation together with several mixed games which most sites do not typically support. Games found at this site include Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven-Card Stud Hi, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo and Razz. Like most other sites, Texas Hold’em and Omaha games are the most popular games played by users. No-Limit and Pot-Limit games are available in Hold’em format, and all Omaha games are available in Pot-Limit format. Razz, Stud, and mixed games are only available in Limit variations.
Mixed games are typically sought after by more experienced players who are looking for the added challenge of multi-dimensional play. Full Tilt is one of the few sites to offer such games but clearly has enough traffic flow to support such tables. Available mixed games at Full Tilt Poker include H.O.R.S.E (Hold’em, Omaha, Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven-Card Stud and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo), H.O.S.E. (Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo), and H.A (Hold’em and Omaha Hi). Both Mixed and standard games are available in single table, multi-table (in tourneys and Sit ‘n’ Go) and short handed formats.
Customer Support:
Full Tilt offers email support and has a quick response time of 1 to 2 days depending on the volumes of players requesting assistance. Support representatives are knowledgeable and highly capable of providing first-class assistance.
Soft Competition:
There is no shortage of talent of Full Tilt Poker’s tables, and the fact that this site is home to some of the most talented players in the world generally makes Full Tilt one of the most competitive poker sites in the world. For novice players searching for their best chances at developing their game and winning, we recommend that you stick to the lower stake tables of the games you are learning. With respect to cash games, lower stakes tables rarely see any of the pro players, and the most highly skilled amateur players will typically stick to stake levels where they get paid off for the amount of time they spend sitting at the tables. The flipside of there being so many great players at Full Tilt is the fact that if you are a highly skilled player, there is never any shortage of people willing to compete at your desired stake level. Sophisticated amateurs may in fact get the highest degree of satisfaction from this site, as waiting times for high level cash tables and Sit ‘n’ Go’s tend to be amongst the shortest in the industry.
Financial and Information Security:
Full Tilt Poker runs their banking and financial affairs within the generally accepted standards of international banking institutions. They use 256-bit encryption to protect user information, both on and off-line, together with a secure server environment designed specifically to maximize both web and physical security.
Casino:
Full Tilt does not currently operate any online casino operation.
Bonus:
100% deposit bonus up to $600. The Full Tilt Poker signup bonus is one of the best available online. Full Tilt will match your initial deposit with any quantity of free money up to $600. In order to use this bonus you must earn Full Tilt points in ring games, tournaments, and sit ‘n’ gos. The deposit is released in either 10 (of your initial deposit) or $20 increments depending on which you earn first. You will continue to collect free money until your total deposit has been earned, and you are given a total period of 4 months to do so.
Accepted Deposit/Withdrawal Methods:
Notice to US players: NETeller, and MyCitadel shall not be processing any new transactions for U.S residents.
Deposit Methods: Visa, MasterCard, NETeller, EPassporte, Click2Pay, and cash transfer.
Withdrawal Methods: NETeller, credit card, and checks.
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