The second largest poker room online, Full Tilt Poker has literally taken the industry by storm especially since the company has only been in business since early 2003. They have designed a room that caters to every player from those who are just learning to play poker right up to the semi pros and professional players. They offer the widest collection in ring and tournament games and feature the largest amount of money available in guaranteed tournaments. Full Tilt still accepts US players and a key benefit they offer a Mac compatible version of their software.
All new players at Full Tilt will be able to claim a 100% match bonus offer up to a maximum of $600 using Full Tilt referral code (enter bonus code here). This bonus will be released into your account once you have earned the required amount of frequent player points while playing any real money game. Full Tilt will deposit your bonus in increments of 20% of the initial bonus received or $20 which ever may come first. It's not a difficult one to clear however micro limit players can expect it to take some time.
Full Tilt is fierce, is one of the more challenging sites to play on but obviously this is one of the attractions to the program and is relevant in the higher limits. That being said the low limit games still have a viewed flop percentage in the high 40's and you can find some fairly loose games right up to the $5/$10 games if you look.
This room boasts the largest collection of ring games available online and rightfully so with Texas Holdem and Omaha available you will also be able to sit down to other variations like; Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, Seven-Card Stud Hi, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo and Razz, H.A. (Holdem and Omaha Hi), H.O.R.S.E. (Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven-Card Stud and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo) and H.O.S.E. (Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo). Each of the games is available in their respective limits starting at $0.05/$0.10 and increasing to $1000/$2000 NL. The room has developed a large player base and during peak hours Full Tilt will have over 60,000 real money players online. This means the room never sleeps and there will always be a game at any stake available for you to join. Full Tilt Poker takes a 5% rake from each pot up to a maximum of $3 per hand.
The tournament schedule is packed with various tournaments all available in the same variations as what's offered at the cash games and with buyins starting as low as $1, they are available for all players to join. Full Tilt is known for sending a lot of players to live events and recently announced their own schedule for satellites and qualifiers to this year's 2008 WSOP Main Event. Over 100 players will be joining Team Full Tilt at the main event and you can enter for as little as $2 to win your seat. In addition to this they also run their own signature events such as the FTOPS and various promotions. The multi-table tournaments are available in various formats with re-buys, freezeouts and guaranteed supported. The SNG is just as widely popular and in some cases fill up within seconds. One of the nice features is the re-match tool available in the heads up SNG allowing you and your opponent to play each other again.
Full Tilt was created by poker players for poker players. By this we mean the line up of professional players such as Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer were directly involved with developing the software and making sure it features all the options and tools you would need. It is Mac compatible, and out performs almost all other programs available to date. They recently upgraded the package and added a few more components such as T/$ (tournament dollars) and advanced note taking available within the lobby. Along with this you will have detailed statistics both in the lobby and at the tables along with access to hand history that can be downloaded to your hard drive for analysis. If you need further information, Full Tilt will allow you to use your Poker Tracker software. The site is stacked for multi-table players with up to eight games available for play simultaneously with integrated resizing features along with cascading tiles. Navigation is very easy with an in lobby game filter allowing you to choose which games you would like to be displayed in the lobby. Overall it offers all the tools and features you could need and then some.
Full Tilt only provides support via email and although the poker room excels in every other aspect of online poker, support is not one of these areas. Generally you can wait up to 24 hours for a reply from the room.
