Detailed Full Tilt Poker Review

Summary (7.17)

Full Tilt Poker is the third largest online poker room in the world with 6500+ ring game and 35,000+ real money tournament players competing simultaneously during peak hours. Their software is proprietary (not developed by a network) and they do not share their player volume with any other room. Full Tilt sponsors more professional poker players than any other site and has some of the best promotions and loyalty bonuses online.

Software and graphics (8)

The Full Tilt software is top notch with great graphics, playability, security and reliability; and comes in both a Windows and Macintosh download version. Some of the many advanced features include: Note taking, player search, table stats from lobby, custom cartoon avatars, seat toggle and custom table backgrounds.

Ring game traffic (9)

Full Tilt is the 3rd largest online poker room in the world in terms of ring game traffic. During peak hours about 6500 real money players can be found playing simultaneously..

Tournament traffic (9)

35,000+ Tournament players can be found playing simultaneous during peak hours..

Game variety (7)

Full Tilt has good game variety offering Texas Holdem, Omaha (Hi and Hi/Lo), 7 Card Stud (Hi and Hi/Lo) and Razz. They also offer a wide variety of Mixed Games like HORSE and HA.

Rake (5)

The rake is the same as almost all other sites; five percent with a three dollar maximum.

Soft competition (3)

On average Full Tilt Poker has a well skilled clientele which makes their games tougher than the industry average (especially at ring games).

Sign up bonus (7)

The Full Tilt bonus is quite generous though moderately difficult to clear at low stake tables. The bonus is a 100% initial deposit match up to $600 free. The deposit clears in five equal installments and has a 120 day expiration date.

Every 16.6 points earned clears a Full Tilt bonus dollar.

Each player dealt cards will earn a number of points equal to the dollars raked from that pot (Example: a pot raked $3 earns 3 points and a pot raked 50 cents will earn 0.50 points). Points can also be earned through tournaments; each dollar paid in tournament entry fees is worth seven points (Example: a $50+$5 tournament earns 35 points and $10+$1 tournament earns 7 points).

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Loyalty bonus (8)

FullTiltPoker offers a points system, points are redeemable for merchandise or entry into various poker tournaments. We give FTP a very high rating under loyalty bonus because of their frequent points based promotions that often award the top 1500 earners high value rewards.

Promotions (8)

The Full Tilt website is loaded with tons of great promotions many of which focus on the WSOP. Full Tilt Guaranteed to give away 100 seats for the 2006 WSOP and is offering 10 million additional prize dollars to the winner of the main event if they qualified for their seat through their site. Other promotions include the $200K guaranteed tournament and the Iron Man Challenge (a shot to play 3 pro's heads up and earn up to $100K). For the 2007 WSOP the same $10 Million dollar extra for a FTP qualifier is available.

Support (6)

Support is only offered through email and is average at best with the typical response time running from 4-6 hours.

Financial security (9)

This room is backed by an enormous amount of "big poker names" and should be very secure.

Deposit & withdrawal options (7)

Deposit options: Neteller, Epassporte, Fire Pay, Visa, Mastercard, MyWebATM.

Cash out options: NETeller, FirePay, Epassporte, MyWebATM and credit card (with the usual restrictions).

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