Full Tilt Poker Review

August 29, 2008

Full Tilt Poker is the second highest trafficked poker site online, and boasts ring and tournament games of all stakes at all times of the day. While many of the games are Hold’em, Full Tilt has more Omaha and Stud play than all other sites. Whether you play cash games, multi-table tournaments, or sit & go’s, Full Tilt Poker has what you need. With games of many varieties at low stakes, high stakes, and everywhere in between, you’ll never be waiting around for a game to start!

Many of the best professional poker players in the world play exclusively at Full Tilt, and you can play against them! Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, and Mike Matusow are just a few of the red player names, denoting Full Tilt pros, that you will see at the highest stakes cash tables on a regular basis. Other live pros like Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch can be found playing tournaments, as well as a host of up and coming internet pros. Full Tilt is the only site around that so often and easily gives you access to test your game against some of the best poker players in the world!

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Bonuses

Full Tilt offers an initial 100% matching deposit bonus of up to $600.

Games

Full Tilt offers the following game varieties in both ring games and tournaments.

Hold’em - No Limit, Pot Limit, Fixed Limit
Omaha - Pot Limit, Fixed Limit
Omaha Hi/Lo - Pot Limit, Fixed Limit
Stud
Stud Hi/Lo
Razz
HORSE

Stakes

Ring Games

Full Tilt has No Limit cash game tables ranging from $.05/$.10 to $500/$1000 and everywhere in between. Fixed Limit stakes range from $.25/$.50 up to $1000/$2000.

Multi-table Tournaments

Buy-ins for Multi-table Tournaments at Full Tilt range from $1 all the way up to $1000, with many daily tournaments available with buy-ins between $1 and $100.

Sit & Go Tournaments

Full Tilt offers sit & go tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $1 to $5500, with many of the lower buy-in tournaments starting every minute.

Promotions

FTOPS

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series, which runs quarterly, has 25 or more tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $100 to a massive $2500 2-day event. A variety of different games are played in this highly contested tournament series, offering numerous prize pools of over $1,000,000. Win an event and in addition to making a massive sum of money, you’ll get your own FTOPS champion avatar to be displayed while you play!

$750k Weekly Guarantee

Full Tilt Poker hosts the second largest weekly guarantee tournament anywhere. With satellites running constantly for this $216 buy-in tournament, anyone can compete for the top share of the guaranteed $750,000 prize pool.

Bust Out Bounties

Bust out any Full Tilt Pro (red named player) from a scheduled tournament (MTTs, not sit & go’s), and you will be credited with your buy-in for that tournament back, as well as recieve a T-shirt boasting your accomplishment!

The Iron Man Challenge

Rewarding every day play, Full Tilt Poker’s Iron Man Challenge allows players to earn poker gear and other prizes, and a chance to play against three of the sponsored pros for up to $100,000 in prize money.

Happy Hours

Full Tilt is now running daily Happy Hours that allow players to earn three times the normal amount of player rewards points (FTPs). These Happy Hours are specific to different types of games at different times, one hour offering the bonus on ring game play, or another offering it on sit & go play.

Player Rewards

As players play real money games at Full Tilt, they earn Full Tilt Points which can be spent in the Full Tilt Store on poker gear, poker clothing, or even consumer electronics. Full Tilt Points may also be used as a buy-in to enter special tournaments, including many satellites larger events.

Deposit Options

Full Tilt Poker offers the following deposit options: Visa, Mastercard, Click2Pay, Ultra Prepaid, and Cash Transfers.

Software

Full Tilt Poker offers an intuitive user interface with many conviences that may not be found at other rooms, as well as some entertaining avatar choices for players. While some do find these cartoonish avatars distracting, they can easily be turned off. Unfortunately, the stability of both the Full Tilt Poker client program and the network as a whole has left something to be desired in the past.

Support

Full Tilt has 24/7 email support at support@fulltiltpoker.com. Unfortunately, response times vary widely, and it can sometimes take days to hear back from them.