Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker had adopted an excellent marketing approach well before the infamous UIGEA ever got passed. They put together a team of professional players their customers could play against, and it worked wonderfully. Nowadays, they are pushing the same envelope, and their team of professionals is bigger than ever. On top of that, Full Tilt still accepts U.S. players, and thus when the UIGEA landed they took over a large chunk of the player base of competing poker rooms who closed their doors to U.S. patrons. 

Full Tilt Poker’s software is one of a kind and it is probably the best in the business. They do not belong to any poker network, their software is an in-house creation. Their pro team has helped develop it, and it is continuously working on it to keep it up to date with the latest developments in technology and player needs. Needless to say, the client is stable, fast, it looks excellent, and it offers a whole bunch of features, some industry standard, some rather unique (like the avatars capable of expressing emotion). The client is Mac compatible.

I said earlier that Full Tilt didn’t actually belong to a poker network. Well, they probably have more players than some of the biggest networks as it is. There are about 10,500 players at their cash tables, and because of that outstanding number they can offer competition in some of the more exotic poker variants they feature too. There are around 70,000 tournament players at peak hours, and since Full Tilt is a truly global operation, where there’s always something going on, peak hours last pretty much all day long. Competition is mixed. You’ll find everything here from the loosest micro limits to the tightest super limits where the pros play.

Needless to say, Full Tilt is a promotions bonanza too. They have everything here. Generous live tournament qualifiers, extreme rewards for those who do well in some of these live events, bounty tournaments, refer-a-friend promotion, heck they even offer rakeback. Real money play earns players Full Tilt points which they can then use to redeem their bonuses, purchase merchandize, or buy into tournaments.

Full Tilt’s sign-up bonus is a pretty solid 100% match on player deposits up to $600. Its redemption is fairly easy too, as all players dealt into a hand receive a poker point for each dollar that’s raked off the pot. This way it is possible for a player to redeem $18 of his bonus by playing 100 hands.