Launched in July 2004, Full Tilt Poker has rapidly become one of the largest poker rooms on the internet. While this is due in part to the fact that it remains one of the few to accept new US players, and its aggressive marketing campaigns featuring top pros such as Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson or Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow, the site’s overall quality is the reason why Full Tilt Poker boasts such high traffic at all times of the day.
Software
Full Tilt Poker’s custom software platform is easily customizable and offers one of the most pleasing playing experience available. The software offers a choice of 5 backgrounds, more than 40 avatars all with their own expressions; happy, sad, angry, and surprised. If cartoon avatars aren’t up your alley you can choose to not have them displayed.
The standard features such as player notes, hand statistics, multi-table (up to 8 simultaneous tables), language support for English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch can also be found on Full Tilt Poker.
The software also allows you to customize your preferred games. You can opt to only have cash prize tournaments displayed, or satellites and prize tournaments for example. Full Tilt uses a color coded system to help players easily identify a specific type of tournament.
Ring Games
The ring games at Full Tilt Poker are constantly populated by thousands of players at every limit. The two most populated games are Texas Hold’em and Omaha. During peak hours traffic in ring games can reach as high as 10,500 cash players.
The Full Tilt Poker Team
Tournaments
Full Tilt Poker offers tournaments starting at only $1 all the way to $5,000 where you are bound to run into some of the pros. With over $5,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools every week you are sure to find a tournament that fits your budget. Full Tilt also offers several tournament variations, ranging from knock-out bounties, deep stack, buy-backs, and several other promotions such as the Daily Doubles Tournaments where you can win a percentage of the jackpot in two or more tournaments.
Competition
At the low-limit games ($0.05/$0.10 – $0.25-$0.50) the competition is fairly loose and the games are fairly easy to beat. As the stakes increase to $1-$2 and $3-$6 there is a considerable increase in competition and the games become tougher than the average poker site.
If you’re still new to online poker or are not too confident in your skills you should stick to the low limit games or sit and go tournaments where you can hone your skills before moving on to the higher stakes.
Game Variety
Full Tilt Poker offers one of the largest variety of poker games in several different formats which are listed below:
Hold’Em – Offered in pot limit and no limit formats
Omaha H/L – Offered in pot limit format
Omaha Hi – Offered in pot limit format
Stud Hi – Offered in limit format
Stud H/L – Offered in limit format
Stud Hi – Offered in limit format
Razz – Offered in limit format
All the games can be played either in tournaments and sit and go formats or cash games. Sit and gos can be played in heads up, short handed (6 players) or multi table.
Rake
The rake structure is similar to most online poker sites with a somewhat higher percentage. The rake is 5% and the maximum amount is $1 in $0.05-$0.10 to $1-$2 games. The maximum rake amount for higher limit games $2-$4 all the way to the $100-$200 games is $3. Full Tilt poker adopted the “no flop, no drop” rule whereby if there is no flop, no rake is collected.
Sign Up Bonus
Full Tilt Poker offers a very generous 100% initial deposit sign up bonus up to a maximum of $600. The bonus is released in 20% increments for every point you earn. For every dollar that is raked you earn 1 point which is equivalent to $0.06. Unlike other poker sites, Full Tilt offers partial points for rakes of less than $1 allowing you to earn you bonus much faster.
Promotions
Full Tilt Poker is constantly running promotions. For every major poker tournament from the World Series of Poker to the Aussie Millions or a WPT event, Full Tilt will run tournaments with guaranteed seats. There is always a new promotion each month featured on Full Tilt website.
Deposits and Withdrawals
Full Tilt offers the following deposit options:
Visa, MasterCard, Instant Checks, GatorPay, ePassporte, Cash Transfer and Click2Pay.
Withdrawal options:
Bank transfer, GatorPay, ePassporte and check.
Customer Support
Full Tilt Poker offers 24/7 customer support by e-mail only. This is one of the drawbacks to Full Tilt, however their reply time is usually under an hour.
