Full Tilt Poker Room

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Full Tilt Review
Full Tilt is an online poker room that was launched in 2004. It is widely regarded as the most successful and popular online poker room in the world at the moment. This is largely due to the huge names that comprise Team Full Tilt: Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Mike “The Mouth” Matasow, Jennifer Harmen and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson to name but a few. With these names that Full Tilt has contracted comes the responsibility to produce a fantastic online poker room and website. This they most certainly do.
They offer many special deals, such as a 100% sign-up bonus, where the first deposit by a registered Full Tilt user gets the amount he deposits in a one-off bonus. Among several other of these great offers, there are free-roll tournaments running every hour. This is quite an astonishing number of free-roll tournaments. Theses free-rolls vary in size and in prizes quite considerably. In the main free-roll tournament, 27 places get paid out of a maximum of 2700 entrants.
The division of the $100 guaranteed prize pool works as follows:
First place receives $15 of the total $100 prize pool. Second place receives $12, not that big of a difference from the prize money won by the first place finisher. Third place wins $9. Fourth place earns $7, fifth place earns $6, sixth place earns $5 and seventh place earns $4. Eighth and ninth place both earn $3 which brings the prizes for the final table finishers to an end. Then the remainder of the paid places, from tenth right through until twenty-seventh earn $2, which, believe it or not, is enough to enter a low stakes cash table or a small Sit & Go tournament where that money can, with the right nurturing, be turned into millions.
The structure of the tournament is that there are no re-buys or add-ons and the blinds go up every 10 minutes, creating a nice flow to the game. There are also Turbo versions of the game where the blinds go up considerably quicker, creating a more fast-paced game which is ideal to a lot of regular free-roll players as they don’t want to spend too much time playing when there is actually no risk of losing money for them, as is the nature of a free-roll tournament. There is a break for the players after every hour of play.
This particular type of free-roll tournament happens in several types of poker. It is most commonly found taking place in No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em but there are lots of cases of the Pot Limit and Limit versions of Texas Hold ‘Em as well as in Omaha, Omaha Hi, Omaha H/L, Razz, Stud H/L and Stud Hi making this online poker room truly a poker room for everyone; every player of every experience level of every type of poker. The most popular version of this tournament is the No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em event. It is amazing that even considering the high frequency of such free-roll tournaments, the maximum number of entrants, 2700, is always reached within seconds of the tournament opening time. The No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em free-roll tournament is scheduled to happen on average every 3-4 hours every day, so there is ample opportunity for someone looking to increase their bankroll at no financial risk to look to these free-rolls generously offered by Full Tilt.
Then there are the promotional free-rolls that operate in the same way as the one mentioned above with the exception of the nature of the prizes. Rather than money being won, prizes in the form of sought after items are on offer for the winners of the tournaments. Phil Gordon’s Final Table Poker DVD is one of the prizes for first place.
There are also free-rolls that have restricted entry that are reserved for certain groups of people. For example, there may a $40 guaranteed free-roll open only to residents of New Zealand. This is a very nice new dimension to Full Tilt as its adds a personal touch to the online poker room where, for example, a country is brought together by an international website to play together. Also, there are considerable bragging rights to the winner of such a tournament, as he could, in theory, claim dominance over his country in the poker room!
Aside from the excellent free-roll tournaments that Full Tilt offers to its registered users, it is an equally brilliant online poker room with other formats of game and different versions of poker. There are a massive number of cash tables that a user can play ranging from the mini $0.05/$0.10 blinds in a No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em to a massive $500/1000 blinds on the highest table offered. At any one time on Full Tilt, there are around 25 000 tables in action with over 75 000 players playing these tables. Then there are fantastic Sit & Go Tournaments to work on your tournament play as well as earn prize money. There are free-roll Sit & Go tournaments available to registered users as well as Sit & Go’s to which the buy-in is in FTP (Full Tilt Points – points accumulated by playing real money poker on Full Tilt) that can be Satellites to bigger and better tournaments or just for straight up cash. The smallest of Sit & Go tournaments is a $1+$0.25 one and there is a vast range all the way up to $5500+$200 where a massive amount of money is on the line to be won. Of course, as in the case of the free-roll tournaments, you can show your skills on all the different types of poker from Limit Hold ‘Em to RAZZ.
Overall, Full Tilt has been found to be a reliable, easy-to-use, attractive-looking online poker room and information website that is deservedly regarded as one of the finest, if not the finest in the world. I recommend any person of any skill level and experience to poker to register with Full Tilt.