Full Tilt Poker Tournaments
All around the poker world (and that includes both online and offline operations) tournaments are quickly becoming the crowd favorite. This outstanding popularity can be explained by several factors. On one hand tournaments – especially the ones with all sorts of twists and turns added (like bounties etc) – are simply more interesting than cash games. On the other hand, tournaments offer a different type of play experience, not only from the point of view of the rake (of which you’ll always have to pay less in tourneys than in cash games) but also from the point of view of the structure of the game and the possibilities offered to players. Last but not least, Television is certainly partly responsible for this explosion in popularity of tournament poker. Watching their favorite players hack away at each other’s bankrolls day after day in tournaments makes people want to emulate them at some level.
Anyway, bottom line is, tournament poker is here to stay, and if you’re a greedy little poker room which sees tourneys as a factor hurting its income, you’d better get used to the idea.
Large and successful poker rooms see it as an opportunity rather than a menace. Being at the forefront of whatever innovation is going on in online poker, Full Tilt Poker is certainly on to the trend. They’ve long realized what the majority of poker players were after, and they went out of their way to satisfy this need. Tournaments are offered at Full Tilt in just about any shape, size and structure you can think of.
They put a special stress on trying to accommodate all categories of players, offering small buyin tourneys as well as more expensive ones with heftier prize-pools, but making sure all the time to make the whole thing as accessible as possible.
Small fish can also take a shot at the big pond any time via Full Tilt’s elaborate satellite system.
The lobby of the poker room is aimed at providing simple and comfortable access to any type of tournament players may be looking for. Tourneys are all sorted into relevant categories, player can use filters to narrow down their range of preference and they can search for individual tournaments according to criteria like buyin, ID etc.
MTTs are featured (Multi Table Tournaments) which come with huge prize pools but with a similarly huge number of opponents. STTs (Single Table Tournaments) are the venues where I personally believe the odds will be just the right ones for you. Fewer opponents, potentially looser competition (it goes through a less rigorous selection during play) and the possibility of doubling up your investment with a mere 3rd place finish.
While 3rd may sound like a huge long-shot in an MTT, it is a perfectly realistic expectation in a STT.
Tournaments are usually tons more interesting than cash tables as they are, but Full Tilt Poker uses these tournaments in their promotions, spicing them up with a little bit of extra here and there to add to the experience. Promotions-wise there’s so much going on at FullTiltPoker, that it’d probably require a separate article to deservingly cover all of them.
The good stuff starts flowing well before you even consider taking a seat at one of their tables. Your first deposit (the money that you join with) is immediately matched 100% up to no less than $600.
That basically means if you deposit $50, you’ll get another $50 as bonus. It requires unlocking of course, but you’ll automatically do that by playing real money raked hands, whether you’re at a cash table or a tourney one. By real money play you generate poker points. The more poker points you generate, the more of your bonus lands in your real money account. The points won’t get used up either. You’ll be able to use them for other things such as joining Poker Points tourneys (where real money buy-ins are replaced with poker points) or exchanging them for Full Tilt Merchandise.
The FTOPS VI (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) promotion consists of a set of tournaments featuring some extremely generous prize pools. Besides the money prizes, you’ll also be able to win a custom avatar (to show off that you’re a winner to everyone) or extra tourney buy-ins.
The Aussie Millions promotion puts you face to face with the chance of a lifetime. You’ll get the chance to win an $18,000 package for you and a friend of yours, to one of the most prestigious live events in the world, taking place down-under. Getting tired of the cold and the nasty weather? Take a trip to Australia and forget that summer has ever ended.
While the buy-ins for the direct qualifiers to this event are not exactly cheap, there are many cheaper satellite variants that can help you all the way to the top.
Taking on one of the Full Tilt Pros (there are some pretty big names playing for them) in a bounty tournament is no longer a novelty at this room, and neither is the fact that for every friend that you refer to them, you get a $100 no strings attached bonus.
Access to WPT (World Poker Tour) or EPT (European Poker Tour) events is never too far out of the reach of Full Tilt Poker players. A series of satellites to these events make sure you get your shot at fame, even if the odds of you actually getting there are quite meager.
One of the most interesting promotions that the site offers is the Chris Ferguson Challenge. Poker pro Chris Ferguson shows fish that it’s entirely possible to turn nothing into a big pile of money on FullTiltPoker. He starts with a bare poker account and he plays his way to a minimal bankroll in freerolls. He then starts building on that, and the rest is history. He stops at $10,000 (which he’s already reached BTW) but there’s an ongoing poll at the site which puts forth the possibility of him stopping only at either $100K or $1 million.
If you reckon your bankroll management could use a bit of chiseling, keep your eyes on this challenge.
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