FullTilt Poker is a unusual Web site within the online poker
world, as it was begun by noted poker experts, like Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer. In fact, Ferguson created TiltWare, the firm that developed the FullTiltPoker computer program. The web site also features the most remarkable professional line-up on the web. The pros number Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, and Allen Cunningham, to name a few. FullTiltPoker ranks as one of the main five web sites in player headcount, hosting over 35 thousand participants at its poker tables during highest-traffic time periods.
The gamers at FullTilt Poker are often loose, being that a lot of them are beginner gamers who were pulled to the poker site because of the players they follow on television. As with any internet site, however, there are ample skilled gamblers at FullTilt Poker, as well. In fact, the pros connected to the web-site compete there themselves, so if you are up for the competition, you may pull up a chair and play a hand with the pros.
Full Tilt Poker includes the common card games - Hold em, Omaha and Seven-Card Stud, along with its High low varieties (except Hold Em). The cardroom also throws in a game which a lot of irregular players aren`t familiar with: Razz. It may be a fun change of pace. Stakes vary from nickels and dimes as high as $1,000/$2,000 for fixed limit card games and 50 dollars/100 dollars for No Limit. Pot-limit wagers are often modest. Poker action can be found at most cash levels, although the bigger stakes poker games lean in the direction of the short-handed (six-player) tables.
As with any decent card-room, FullTiltPoker has a extensive scope of poker tourneys. The Web site`s multi-table poker tourneys are surely its forte, with a variety of regular, guaranteed prize pool and satellite tournaments presented daily. sit-and-go`s are abundant, too, with full ring, double-table and head-to-head poker games held in all game derivatives.
One pleasant characteristic of the tournaments is that FullTilt Poker gamers start out with one-thousand-five-hundred chips, compared to the thousand or even 800 poker-chip piles which other card-rooms give players to start. The only trouble regarding the Sit N Go`s is that the wagering levels rise each 6 minutes, an interval which is extremely fast. But, with the high chip stacks, the card games can still take a while.
FullTiltPoker features a generous initial deposit bonus, normally one hundred per-cent up to 600 dollars, with reload bonus payouts averaging once every two months. They tend to be hard to earn back at lower stakes.
FullTilt Poker offers some of the best-looking software in the online poker business. The lobby is an attractive, easy on the eyes color of blue, with the poker games arranged very neatly. All you need to do is click on a button for the variety of game you prefer and you are presented a list of all available poker tables. The card tables are completely sortable, and have statistics such as the percentage of players staying to the flop, poker hands per sixty minutes, and mean pot. It is all available so you may decide on the ideal poker table.
The poker tables are extremely colorful, with sound graphics, though various poker purists might decide the presentation is too "cartoonish." A lot of this feeling comes from Full Tilt Poker`s use of user-icons or alternatively cartoon characters (people, animals and objects at this Website) to represent the gamers at the card table. They can be fun, particularly because you may actually modify your user-icon`s emotional condition; but if they get to be annoying, they are easily switched off. The poker cards deal pretty quickly, and graphics are smooth.
The sound effects at FullTiltPoker are unobtrusive, and also perhaps some of the more realistic of any Web-site; but if you are preoccupied by other things, poker or non-poker, as you`re playing, it may be tough to hear the alarm sound when it`s your turn to play. The table does pop to the front when the action is on you, though, so as long as you are watching your computer screen, you`ll be fine.
FullTiltPoker features usual electronic-mail customer service. Whereas it`s not one of the quickest in the world, the responses generally are not the canned, automated replies that a few other poker rooms utilize. Customer queries are addressed in person.
FullTiltPoker utilizes 256-bit SSL technology, and the corporation promises to not sell or else share client data with third parties. FullTilt Poker has a "Zero Tolerance" rule for fraud and conspiracy. In case any player is found to have cheated or else defrauded a participant or the establishment in some method, his or her user account will be canceled. Teller features are easily usable, and financial deals are very easy.