Full Tilt Poker Overview
Full Tilt Poker is one of the biggest online poker rooms at the moment, dominating the field in terms of excellent software, game availability and player traffic. It is also the first online poker room that was founded by professional poker players.
Full Tilt Poker was launched in June of 2004, and was the brainchild of professional poker players Howard “The Professor” Lederer, Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Jennifer Harman and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson. By playing on Full Tilt you will have your chance to “pwn” the pros at the beautiful game that is Poker.
You will have quite an array of limits and games at your disposal in order to prove your superiority versus Full Tilt’s stable of pros and amateur players alike. Full Tilt Poker offers both cash games and tournaments, in all kinds of limits, game types and stakes. Present are online poker staples such as Hold’Em and Omaha, but also Stud, Razz, HORSE, HA (which is Hold’em and Omaha mixed every ten hands), HOE (which is Limit Hold’em, Limit Omaha8 and Limit Stud8), 7 Game and many other variations. In fact, Full Tilt Poker has the most variety of games available for you to play. Whatever game you crave and at whatever limits your bankroll will allow, Full Tilt Poker will have a table just for you.
And speaking about limits, on Full Tilt you will routinely see games running with people having half a million dollars on the table like its nothing. The highest games that currently run online are run on Full Tilt; games as high as $500/$1000 blind NLHE tables are very popular and running all the time. Here you can witness Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Guy Lalibert, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan, and David Benyamine among others have a go at each other’s bankrolls. For comparison, the biggest games you might normally find on other sites are a lowly $25/$50.
Full Tilt Poker has very good traffic overall and also very good tournament and SNG traffic. SNGs usually fill up instantly, depending on the limits of course, but the SNG traffic at Full Tilt Poker is quite enviable. The buy-ins range from a lowly $1+$0.25 all the way up to $5000+$200, with occasionally having even higher buy-in FTOPS events as well. FTOPS stands for Full Tilt Online Poker Series, and is a regularly scheduled series of tournaments that take place on the site. There is also a Mini-FTOPS event happening regularly, which is just like the regular FTOPS but with smaller buy-ins that are more appealing to the people with less money in their bankroll. Full Tilt also runs a Mini series of Poker event. These are run during the World Series of Poker, and typically offer a smaller buy-in event of the same type as the Live WSOP event that is taking place on that day.
How about the regular tournaments? Well, for starters, Full Tilt offers over $5,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools every week. Every single week! Each day, Full Tilt has a ton of scheduled tournaments available, with a new one starting every 15 minutes. Buy-ins range from about a single dollar to $535, so no matter your bankroll, your time zone, or your game of choice, Full Tilt Poker has got you covered. The most popular weekly scheduled tournament is the Sunday $750,000 GTD ($216 buy-in), which almost always exceeds this prize pool by a ton. And on the last Sunday of every month, the guaranteed bit of the prize pool balloons to $1,000,000!!! Also remember, there are always satellites running to bigger events.
Since its inception, the goal of Full Tilt Poker was to have the best possible software to play online poker with and they have worked very hard with this goal in mind. Nowadays, it’s safe to say that the Full Tilt Poker download and software has either reached that goal or is very near the top, because the site boasts of having features none of the other poker sites can even touch. This includes a cutting edge lobby which makes game selection not only easy and intuitive but also very pleasurable, and also table graphics which are very easy on the eyes and highly customizable as well. Don’t like the Vegas Skyline backdrop? Change it immediately by simply right clicking and selecting another one. Don’t like any of the backdrops? Multiple sources will show you how you can customize your Full Tilt tables to your liking, including the backs of the cards. There is also a racetrack view which offers smaller to no avatars.
Full Tilt also has its own VIP store, which uses Full Tilt Points as currency. Your play on Full Tilt Poker will generate Full Tilt Points, depending on what games and at what limits you play of course. With these points you can purchase various items from the store, which range from Full Tilt Merchandise such as branded cards, customizable jerseys, iPods and MacBooks etc. all the way up to a Harley Davidson and a Mini Cooper. These products are then conveniently shipped to your home.
Full Tilt Poker also has a “school” which teaches you how to play poker. It is called the Full Tilt Poker Academy, and can be accessed from within the lobby. In here you will be able to prove your skills by opening challenges and completing tasks at the Full Tilt tables, while in doing so you will get Academy credits that you will be able to redeem in the Academy Store for CardRunners subscriptions, mugs and even cash bonuses. You can add your favorite pros to your Full Tilt Academy profile, and track your learning progress by watching a variety of videos on many topics. It’s very cool and something definitely unique to Full Tilt Poker, so check it out!



