Everyone likes to play in huge tournaments, because along with the excitement and fun they also get a chance to win huge. Now Full Tilt FTOPS festival has announced that they are giving away over $30 million as reward in its Mini FTOP series.

This event is for those who like to participate in big events while ignore these types of events. But now full tilt is proving that this type of mini event could also give you a chance to win huge. The newest edition of the popular Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series is set to get underway this week. Read more!

Mini FTOPS is a great way for players who are interested in huge range of tournaments to get a chance to play all formats and variations. Like in a compact series against a much larger field of opponents than some of these tournaments would normally entice in their own.

Mini FTOPS is the scaled down version of FTOPS. Everything is the same more or less. Its just 1/10th buy in the regular FTOPS. Like in the main event of FTOPS carries with it a $500 buy-in while as it’s the mini version of this event so it will set you back $50. This online poker event will have 27 events.

The championship event will be hosted by former WSOP final-tab list Scott Montgomery and is likely to attract a huge field. While the other event which is bound to attract a sea of hopefuls is the $50, $800,000 guaranteed tournament that will be hosted by the darling of the poker world, Jennifer Harman.

You can also check the slate of Mini FTOPS promos that look to reward players who are really excited and are ready the experience the Mini FTOPS. But this time FTOP will offer a huge reward to the winner of the MFTOPS leader-board along with a string of MFTOPS related challenges that offer winners a variety of prizes.

So this event is for you! With more huge prizes to be won and better structures this Mini FTOPS is considered as the best event. Don’t lose this chance and log-on to Fulltiltpoker.com.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » March 15th, 2010

PokerGives.org is an organization for the charity of choice of Women in Poker Hall of Fame. Recipient organizations include the Special Olympics, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and the Step by Step Foundation.

Those poker players who are interested in the $5+$5 buy-in tournament can go into Tournament lobby of FullTiltPoker.com. The event will takes place on April 4th, after few weeks. ID and password for this event is 137275439 and PokerNations. This event is going to sponsor a charity contest along with the Twitter Poker Tour.

It’s not the first time that Full Tilt is hosting some charity event they have also hosted some other charity events, like in February they have sponsored the Kandy Masquerade Charity Event. The site also sent over $650,000 to the American Red Cross to benefit the victims of the huge earthquake that struck Haiti after matching $330,000 in player donations.

So this time on 4th April Full Tilt Poker and PokerGives.org both will host a combine $5+$5 charity tournament. In this event half of each players buy-in will be for the tournament prize pool while the other half will be donated to charity through PokerGives.org.

Requirements for the participants of the event to get to bonus prize is that they have to visit the PokerNation forums and have to post their Full Tilt user name in the tournament’s related thread. Every player who participates will receive a one-month membership to the Down to the Felt Club, which has a retail value of $25.

Along with the prize pool there are also some other prizes that include poker sunglasses from Blue Shark Optics, a home game set from DB Dealer, a one-year subscription to Bluff Magazine, six months of poker coaching from Deuces Cracked, poker books, card protectors, a $200 gift certificate to Andrew Shirley and Company, and private coaching sessions with Johnson, Delk, PokerXFactor’s Chris “Fox” Wallace, and Michael “tuna_fish_tank” Stroh.

Full tilt Poker has practiced exponential growth and now it is the second largest online poker room in the world. It is hosting over 50,000 poker players at any time of the day.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | 1 Comment » March 15th, 2010

To celebrate the arrival of world’s fastest poker game Rush Poker. Full Tilt poker is now offering its players at least $50 in bonus money. Players can accept this Fast $50 bonus offer by 23:50ET on 14th March.

Players are required to make their initial deposit at FullTiltPoker and have to finish any active bonus by 18:30 ET on 21st February. Then they can receive a Fast $40 bonus offer immediately.

You can take double advantage from this offer by getting your share of bonus money while experiencing the best online poker action in the world. Isn’t it great? Those players who have made cash deposit at Full Tilt Poker.com but have no active bonus on the site can accept their Fast $50 bonus offer immediately.

If you haven’t made your initial deposit then you have until 23:59 ET on March 10th to make your first deposit and finish your 100% First Deposit Bonus. Then you’ll be eligible to receive a Fast $50 bonus offer by 12th March.

Full Tilt has given this offer to minimize wait time between hands and keep players in action at all the times. Rush Poker has set the online poker industry on fire since its launch in January.

As compared with a typical ring game, players can play up to four times more hands per hour in Rush Poker, thereby making it a perfect game to rapidly earn the required Full Tilt Points to release their Fast $50 bonus money.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles | No Comments » February 24th, 2010

Now Full Tilt Poker has given their players permission to join large pool and move from one table to another table after every hand. It took some time to release accommodating Full Tilt’s Rush Poker; which is the newest game that is weeping online poker by storm.
Holdem Manager and PokerTracker, both are the advertise leaders of the poker tracking software and both try to give something new and innovative. While after the release of Rush Poker on Full Tilt; they have snarled to solve patches issue.

Holdem Manager has given their version some days before the release of Poker Tracker’s version. They have added in place of a customary Heads-Up Display (HUD), stats like freely addition of money in the pot (VPIP), aggression factor (AF), and pre-flop raise (PFR) percentage appeared in notes section of the Full Tilt.

On the PokerTracker forums discussing the latest update, the team said, “This beta was delayed a bit longer than we hoped. We weren’t satisfied in giving silly stats in exported notes or to make you look up your opponents manually.  We wanted to give you exactly what you have on every other table you play on. We succeeded in bringing you the first real-time updating HUD for Rush Poker.”

The PokerTracker HUD within Rush Poker works just like it was working for any other tournament or the cash game. But there are some cautions outlined by the development team that is:

• With the release of Beta 30.2 there are no meeting stats or hero stats available and you will not be able to mark hands for review via the HUD. 
• All player notes will need to be added promptly (before the players change) and mucked hands will not be displayed.

This update has not been tested yet but you can use it at your own risk. And unfortunately Mac users won’t be able to use this feature of Rush Poker as thee patch file is available for Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » February 8th, 2010

The latest innovation at Full Tilt Poker has reacted to entitle for quicker play on the virtual experience known as the Rush Poker, Full Tilt Poker has presented a new and unique game which could draw a grand deal of consideration from those with the need for speed.

A player is often dealt at the table with a hand like J-2 off-suit- and who does not wish to play the hand, the player can also connect to the “Fold” button and as soon as it comes in action, there is a “Quick Fold” button as well which can be used at any time period as an alternative of waiting for your spin.

The player is right away switched off to another table with an entirely new batch of players and a fresh hand is dealt rather than sticking to the old table and watching all the remaining players at the table encounter to it. The player continues at the table only when they are actually in stroke with a hand, and once again a player folds, the player shall go to the other table with a fresh group of players. This will direct to the colossal number of hands at any given session.

The Team of Full Tilt is determinedly at the back the Rush Poker diversified range and soon they will enter in to the fray along with their usual players. Howard Lederer, had commented on his Twitter account, “Had fun giving Rush Poker an attempt on FTP, a 300 hand per hour at each table. COOL.” Another Fellow team member of Full Tilt, Andy Bloch was uniformly overwhelmed when he said on Twitter that playing with the new Rush Poker on FullTilt Poker. The Online poker has never been the same.

The regular amount of hands transact throughout an hour of play vary among 277 to 318 opposing that require for multi-tabling. Typical pot sizes were relatively comparable to what takes place at the average speed tables. However, it did seem to be fine that players gambled even tighter on the Rush Poker tables, along with the players looking at the flop percentages ranging from around 19% to 25%.

At the tables, the action seems to run very effortlessly. Whether you wish to wait till your action to fold over or utilize the “Quick Fold” option and as soon as you decide, an entirely new and different table of players that heaps up for action. When you wish to move, you just simply land in any situation at the table. In the period of even less than ten minutes and this author played almost 50 hands, assembling for a bumpy average of around 300 hands per hour.

Whether Full Tilt Poker’s fresh Rush Poker will grab on is completely on the players to make the decision. At that instant of writing, the Rush Poker table accounted for around 10% of the complete action on the website. Full Tilt Poker has furthermore applied for a patent on this kind of diverse online poker, which makes it even possible dubious that other websites will also look forward to adapt to this fresh event.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » January 22nd, 2010

Almost every poker player seeks to begin the New Year with every opportunity to win, and Full Tilt is ready to present more opportunities than ever. So on new years start Full Tilt Poker has offered a brand new of promotions; it’s a bigger tournament which consists of four tournaments in January with a combined amount of $1 million on the line of players.

If players invest as little as $.50 or 50 Full Tilt Points they also can win their own shares. They are also running 3X Happy Hours through January1st, by giving their players surety that they will ring in the New Year with a plenty of FTPs in their stockings. An extended Happy Hour ran on Full Tilt on Christmas Day while other will hit on first day of the New Year. Actual buy-in for these tournaments is $5 +$50. But some massive tournaments require buy-in of $200 or more.

These qualifiers are already in progress in the form of nine-player sit-n-go’s and multi-table turbo tournaments. But there is a warning that is each $250K Guaranteed tournament is limited to 50,000 players, means those players who have registered earlier can surely get the chance at their share of the $1 million. More Full Tilt Online Tournaments!

According to PokerScout.com’s estimate Full Tilt’s traffic is increasing 109% year over year. There will be yellow smiley face for qualifying tables in Full Tilt Poker lobby. You can take your hard-earned FTPs and head straight for Full Tilt store. There are also options for belated Christmas present included a Mini Cooper S for six million FTPs and a Harley-Davidson Night Train chopper for four million.

There is a guaranteed event that is $5.50 buy-in $250,000 in big little tournament. And four of them can play on successive Sundays. Additional installments can also be take place on January 10th, January 17th and January 24th at same start timing. There is a limit of 50,000 players for each tournament and you can find the big little tournament just by clicking Tournament, Guarantee, Hold’em, No Limit and Low in the lobby. And for these directions are also given as to corresponding satellites for each of them Full Tilt is qualifying their members for the World Poker Tour’s L.A Poker Classic.

So Welcome 2010 with Full Tilt Poker and pay for the best year ahead to start in right way! Click here to join for free!

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » January 3rd, 2010

During last few years, Full tilt Poker has practiced exponential growth and now the second largest online poker room in the world. It is hosting over 50,000 poker players at any time of the day.

This Sunday’s tournament ended in chaos and was different than other Sundays for poker lovers, round the globe. As the site’s server got crashed in between of the day’s heaviest traffic.

All the players had to face this problem they were unable to log back in and get a message “Unable to connect to Server”. This crash occurred at 7:45pm ET; put Sunday’s major tournament, on early ending, the $750k guaranteed along with a number of extra events.

Therefore Full Tilt added “Unscheduled Maintenance in Progress: We recently experienced a network outage. We expect to be operational shortly. As stated on their site. As players were unable to get back up to the running tournaments, Full Tilt canceled all the tournaments. So Full Tilt Poker soon announced those players who are still in the tournament are refunded their buy-in along with their tournament fee; while the remaining prize pool is distributed according to chip count. According to Full Tilt Poker’s re-buy policy players get their initial buy-in plus tournament fee back and the remaining prize pool is distributed according to chip count.

At Full Tilt, in such sort of tournaments which award non cash prizes like live tournament packages; a cash values is assigned to the prize and the money is distributed on the basis of chip count. While in cash games, the hand in progress at the time of the stoppage is considered dead and all bets are returned.

The server problem was just for few hours in Sunday but by Monday morning everything at Full Tilt Poker.com was going normal as before.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » December 30th, 2009

This week a big news roaming around the world of poker is that 60% of the market have been acquired by the popular online poker giants Poker Stars.com and Full Tilt Poker.com.

This news is tracked by the independent online poker tracking site “Poker Scout”, according to them both the sites have obtained the online poker traffic of about 0.2%. Since, there are almost 500 operators in the whole poker industry but this has been a remarkable achievement for the two popular poker sites that they have acquired the 60% of the market combinely. However, it seems that a large number of players are converting from small poker rooms to the current giants of the poker industry “PokerStars” and “Full Tilt” .This has been a tremendous accomplishment for the two giants.

Another important aspect of this figure is that, both the poker sites accept U.S players and this has become a plus point in terms of player numbers. Although analyst do not term this the only reason which is making them the best poker play site, because there are so many other factors involved in it like good service, huge bonuses, Customer satisfaction, fair play and fantastic promotions.

Though, this should not been a bad news for other poker sites as they are also sharing the overall growth of 12% of the poker industry.

It was not long ago, that these two giants were considered “toddlers” for the poker world but with their dedication and on going hard work they are now on top of the list from all other poker sites. Infarct, a year ago “Poker Star” and “Full Tilt” were claiming for acquiring the half of the poker traffic to their names.

Since the two company’s weekly event shows that PokerStar have acquired $1.5M GTD known as the PokerStars Sunday Million, Full Tilt Poker’s biggest weekly is the Sunday $750k GTD and Party Poker, with a $300k GTD each week.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » December 22nd, 2009

Full Tilt is up with some poker treat again for its players. This time Full Tilt’s immensely popular FTOPS series is a chance for big players of online poker to wager in their money and take advantage of the great offer at hand.

However when it comes for the smaller range players Full Tilt Poker has something for them as well. Being the leading poker providers on the internet with a fine reputation, Full Tilt are always looking to give everyone a shot at the big time which is why they are once again running their Mini FTOPs. This will mainly cater to the smaller poker players.

This updated version of the FTOPs began yesterday and will offer players 25 different poker events, all with an entry fee equivalent to 1/10th of the main FTOPS, to try their luck at. The highlights of the schedule being the $250 plus 16 two day event and the Main Event with a minimum of $600000 guaranteed.

As if the money minting of thousands of dollars and reigning supreme as champion wasn’t enough, Full Tilt are furnishing each winner with a classy FTOPS jacket and exclusive avatar so they can enjoy their gaming even more. For the top performer across the entire series a fully inclusive package to every FTOPS XV worth over $7500is is on offer.

As it has been seen the tournament roster is dominated by Hold’em events but for those of you with a fondness for variety there’s a liberal sprinkling of poker variants, including a $50 PLO tournament and poker’s version of the Krypton Factor a $50 HORSE event.

With so much value on offer the chance to strike it rich is huge and the probability of having fun is even greater!

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » December 14th, 2009

The Full Tilt Poker Holiday Hundred promotion, offering online poker players a $100 bonus is almost over and players are rushing to make some last minute money. Before poker players participate in Hanukkah and Kwanzaa festivities, Full Tilt members can claim a special $100 Holiday Hundred bonus.

Players have until the end of the day Eastern Time on December 6th to cash in. Full Tilt Poker members have 30 days to release their bonus money by earning Full Tilt Points (FTPs) in real money ring games and tournaments. Every FTP earned means that players will claim $0.06 of the Holiday Hundred bonus, which will be paid out in increments of $10. 167 FTPs are needed to clear each $10 increment and 1,667 are required for the full bonus to be unlocked.

For each dollar that Full Tilt gathers from a pot, every player who was dealt cards in the hand receives one FTP. Each $1 paid in tournament entry fees means that players will earn seven FTPs.

Initial players should firstly open an account and gain their sign up bonus of 100% on a first-time deposit by the end of November 30th. Then, Full Tilt will issue the Holiday Hundred bonus by December 2nd and players must accept it by the 6th. Full Tilt Poker customers who already hold active bonuses have until the end of the day on November 30th to clear their full value.

Full Tilt has seen its high-limit table action increase since the arrival of Swedish online poker man Isildur1. The newcomer has battled Full Tilt Poker pros in Pot Limit Omaha and No Limit Hold’em games. His opponents included Tom “durrrr” Dwan, 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event November Nine member Phil Ivey, Durrrr Challenge participant Patrik Antonius, and CardRunners pros Brian Townsend and Cole South.

According to PokerScout.com, Full Tilt has a seven-day running average of 18,800 real money ring game players. During peak hours, the site approaches 30,000 cash game enthusiasts. It’s the second largest site worldwide after PokerStars and accepts US players.

Full Tilt Poker is preparing for the second running of the Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series which starts on December 9th.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Promotions | No Comments » December 1st, 2009