Full Tilt Poker Reviews

Full Tilt Poker is based in Aruba and was established in 2004. Despite the fact it is still fairly young, it has quickly established itself as one of the most popular and fastest growing poker sites on the market. This popularity is largely based on the great range of games/tournaments it provides, but also by the fact it is affiliated with a large number of popular poker pros. A number of these pros play at and helped to design the site. Full Tilt is one site that can claim it was built by poker player for poker players.

Full Tilt accepts U.S based players

Full Tilt Software

The Full Tilt software contains everything you would expect from a top poker site.

It does take quite a lot of memory so it may run a bit slower on older computers.

Here are some of the software features.

• A nice easy on the eye design. Plenty of customisation options, players can choose from a range of table designs and backdrops.
• Colourful cartoon characters are used as avatars, there is a large selection to choose from (Pros have their own pictures as avatars). These characters help to give fun look and feel.
• For those that want to concentrate soley on their poker there is the option of turning off backdrops and avatars.
• While at the table players can chat with other, make notes and check statistics.
• An in-depth and easy to follow lobby with a good filter system.
• Table re-sizing that allows up to 18 tables to be played on at the same time.
• A time bank that allows a bit of extra time to come up with a decision
• Sotware is available in multiple languages
• Sotware is available for both MAC and PC

Full Tilt Games

Full Tilt offers one of the best variety of poker games on the internet. Such games include Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Stud and Stud Hi. There is also the option of playing mixed games such as H.O.R.S.E, H.O.S.E and H.A.

These games come in all the varients such as No-Limit, Pot-Limit, Full-Table, Shorthanded and Heads-Up and Cap games. Blinds structures start from $0.05-$0.10 up to some of the highest stakes around. If you are looking for some high stakes games then this is a site you should check out. Lots of oppurtunities to win some monstor pots against others players and pros alike.

Full Tilt Tournaments

As well as large variety games, Full Tilt also offers a large variety of mutli-table plus Sit & Go tournaments. Buy ins range from as little as $1.00 all the way up to $25,000. For the larger stakes tournaments it is common to find the pros competing.

Texas Hold’em is the most popular format but others such as Omaha, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz and even H.O.R.S.E are also a tournament option.

Full Tilt has a number of special tournaments to choose from. These include,Turbos (Quicker Blinds), Double Stack (Players start with 3000 chips instead of the usual 1500), Speed Tables (Less time given to make decisions), Four Player Heads Up Sit & Go’s (Winner of each table moves onto next round until 1 player left) and more.

Other Features

Full Tilt Points: A reward system where you earn points for playing poker games. These points are rewarded for playing cash games, Tournaments and Sit & Go’s. 7 points are earned for every $1 spent in entry fees. These points can then be redeemed for entries into special tournaments or mechandise from the Full Tilt poker store.

Sign Up Bonus: Full Tilt offers one of the biggest sign up bonuses on the net. They will match 100% of your first deposit up to the value of $600.

Affiliation with Poker Pros: Probably the biggest draw card that Full Tilt has.

The site is endorsed by many of the worlds best and most famous poker players. These pros are fully fledged members of Full Tilt and promise to play there exclusively.

As well as helping to build and design the site these pros offer tips, write blogs and even live chat with players during game play.

Team Full Tilt is comprised of poker pros such as Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey (pictured), Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Gus Hansen and Erik Seidel to name a few.

Promotions:

• Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS): A range of 25 poker events, with a leader board and a huge range of prizes. This all culminates to a main event which has a guaranteed prize pool of $2.5 Million dollars.
• Big Money Sundays: With a combined total of $1 Million in prize pool money these three tournamnets are run every Sunday. The Sunday Brawl ($350K), The $750K Guarantee and the Sunday Mulligan ($200K). Satellite entries for these tournaments are up for grabs during the week.
• Happy Hour: Full Tilt Points are earned 2-3 times faster durinng Happy Hour times.
• Iron Man Challenge: Players earn points through frequent play in order to be rewarded Iron Man medals at the end of each month. These medals can then be exchanged for special prizes at the Iron Man Challenge store
• Winners choice: A weekly tournament where the overall winner gets a $12K prize package to the televised WPT or EPT event of their choice. Even a chance to win a buy in to the WSOP main event.
• Guarantees: A weekly guarantee prize pool tournament schedule and a gauranteed $1 Million Dollar Monthly Tournament.
• Plus many more promotions added on a regular basis.

Money Deposit options: Full Tilt offers a range of safe and reliable deposit options. These include Credit Card, NETeller, Click2Pay, ClickandBuy, Poli and Local Bank Transfer. There is also a large range of fast withdrawal methods available.

Support: Full Tilt offers a 24/7 email support system. There are a range of email addresses to choose from, each one designed to answer a specific query eg: account info, technology issues, promotional/bonus enquires etc.