Full Tilt Poker Software

Full Tilt Poker, as the current second largest online poker site, works hard every day to ensure that you, the player, gets the best possible software interface to play your games with.  They know the importance of having a good interface mostly because the site was created by poker players themselves. And boy has the Full Tilt Poker software delivered!

The first thing you will notice is the lobby. Full Tilt Poker has multiple lobbies, each one designed to help you find whichever game your heart desires in the blink of an eye. The first view a new user gets is the now default “Standard” lobby view, which has the big cashier button located in the top right corner.  It also has a clock and several customizable widgets (no other site currently has anything remotely resembling this) in the right hand pane. These widgets may include stuff like an Icon Legend, a Full Tilt Points odometer which tells you exactly how many points you’ve earned since you last reset it, tourney lobbies, tourney info’s, cashier mini-views, session information, Iron Man status and so much more. These can be individually customized for Tournament, Sit & Go and also Ring Game.

In the middle of the Standard View lobby you will find all the game selecting tools you’ll ever need. You will be able to quickly browse game types and limits (which is essentially due to the application of filters to remove that which is of no interest to you at the moment) and also a Favorites tab.  After you apply your desired filters you will be able to save these here for easy access later.

The second lobby option is the Basic View. In the Basic View, it takes six steps to be seated: you have to choose, in order;

1) Currency: Play Money or Real Money?

2) Type: Ring Game, Sit&Go or Tournament

3) Game: Hold’em, Omaha Hi, Omaha H/L, Stud, Mixed Games

4) Limit: Fixed Limit, Pot Limit, No Limit

5) Stakes: From $0.01/$0.02 all the way up to $500/$1000

And after you make your choices, you will be presented with the last choice:

6) Play Full Ring Now, Play 6Max Now, Observe Table, Browse Tables.

While you are busy with your choices, there is a More Info lower bar too which is there to aid you in your choices.

Both Standard and basic views have ads running for things like the FTP Academy, and ongoing promotions, in the left side bar.

And finally we also have the Classic lobby, the one that has been with us since Full Tilt Poker’s inception. In the Classic lobby, you can still filter games by using tabs and checkboxes. There is a small box to the right hand side of the games list, which lists the players on the table and the waiting list in cash games, and the tournament info’s in tourneys and Sit&Go’s. At the top there are ads running for FTP’s current promotions. While the Classic view is very intuitive, the Standard view blows it out of the water with the Favorites option and all of the customizability. But the key thing here is that you have to choose whichever lobby you like the most. The choice is where it should be: in your hands!

But enough lobby talk for now. Full Tilt Poker is recognized in the online poker world for having cartoonish avatars. In the beginning I did not like them, but they grew on me with time. The cartoonish avatars can display up to four emotions (happy, angry, normal, sad) which you can use versus your opponents in metagame. Furthermore, you can customize pretty much every aspect of the tables for play, including the background etc. There are so many customization options available for full tilt poker, both in-house and third-party, that it would be impossible to list them all here.

Let’s try to list at least a few though. At first you have resizable tables, with the tables having graphics in Vector format which means little to no loss of quality when you resize them. You can layout the tables just the way you want them, and save that layout using the layouts button and giving it a name, for quick selection later. Multiple table views are available too: choose between the classic round table and racetrack view (with or w/o avatars). You can also use the auto center feature, which will always center your seat. When you leave your seat, it will not automatically close the table like other sites do. The timebank is present, of course. There’s also the FTP Advisor, which displays helpful messages all the time in the chatbox, in green (moderator) text. If , for any reason, the software crashes while you are seated at a table, simply reopening the software will reopen your table so you can continue to play. This is just a sampling of all the great features available on Full Tilt Poker, be sure to check them all out to discover stuff you never knew you needed while playing online poker, but you will not be able to live without going forward.

You can also replay your game by using the Instant Hand History feature, which is a button located to the top left of every table. You will be presented with a flash animation of the hand history you have participated in or have witnessed. If you have participated in it, then the text version is also available; all you have to do to get to it (to post on forums for example) is to click on the hand history number which is located at the top of the screen (only clickable if you have been dealt into the hand). Your last 50 hands are on display in this way, and if you need more, the text versions of hands you have been dealt in are available in your (customizable) hand history folder.

Oh, and did I mention that Full Tilt Poker is available natively on both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems?

Full Tilt Poker’s goal, since inception, is to offer the best online poker experience. They just may have nailed it, by offering one of the, if not the, best possible poker software clients that is available today. Multitabling is done effortlessly, and the customizable lobby is just the thing to bring cutting edge status to Full Tilt Poker’s software. With the great software and the tremendous player base, you will definitely not be disappointed by playing on Full Tilt.