If you love tournaments carrying generous 1st place prizes, be sure to get your hands on the Full Tilt Poker download this month since they have double guarantees from January 24th to January 30th. Any MTT with a guarantee will have their guarantee multiplied by two, which means that 1st place in these events will be substantially increased. If you have always dreamed of that 5-figure cash on the Full Tilt Poker download, you will definitely benefit from participating in Double Guarantees week
As if doubled guarantees weren't enough, the Full Tilt Poker download came up with Multi Entry Tourneys. These MTTs give you the ability to register for the same event a number of times. This means that you could potentially multi-table a single tournament with the same username!
If you decide to download Full Tilt Poker to participate in these new Multi Entry Tournaments, you will need to take note of a few terms and conditions. The maximum number of times you can enter a single tournament is six, and you are permitted to re-enter only if registration is still open. As you probably already have guessed, the program will not allow you to sit down with one of your other entries at the same table. If your number of entries in a given tourney exceeds the number of tables left, two of your chip stacks will merge, and one large stack will be made. Where online poker rooms are concerned, this is a major breakthrough.
These incredible changes mean that January 30th is going to be like no other. The Double Deuce usually has a $200k guarantee, but on January 30th it will have an incredible $400k prize pool. If you play on download free poker sites on a regular basis and you want to play much higher, the $750k will be right up your alley because it will have $1.5 million guaranteed!
01/18/2011
Double Guarantees on Full Tilt Poker
12/11/2010
FTP Short Handed Happy Hour
Recently the Full Tilt Poker download has been host to a large variety of Full Tilt Point promotions, and the latest of the bunch is called “Short Handed Happy Hour”. Long time users of Full Tilt will already know that they earn double the Full Tilt Points at Happy Hour tables, but Happy Hour is typically during times when the traffic is fairly low. Short Handed Happy Hour will give all users a chance to earn double the Points even during peak hours.
Your Full Tilt Poker download is offering double Full Tilt Points in short handed ring games from December 1st to January 31st. You might be surprised to learn that you can still play a short handed game on a Full Ring table. 9-max tables are considered short handed when there are five or fewer players. 6-max games are short handed when there are three or two players. It will be interesting to see whether the Full Ring tables become full of 6-max experts trying to earn double Points on their Full Tilt Poker download. Or maybe Full Ring experts will try their hand in the short handed games. Whatever the case, this is a great way to get the games going.
To find the short handed games quickly, look for the smiley face symbol in the lobby. Those new to online poker rooms should appreciate the fact that Full Tilt made their Short Handed Happy Hour tables very easy to spot.
The Full Tilt Store is jam packed with great items to purchase with your bonus Points. If you have just started your bankroll on money poker sites, the first thing you should buy is the Full Tilt Security Key which costs 5,000 Points. This will ensure that your account cannot be compromised at any time. After you have this, you can start saving for a new book, TV, or laptop.
The extra Full Tilt Points bring a lot of extra value to the tables, making this a great time to be a cash game player. With MiniFTOPS, Short Handed Happy Hour, and the other ongoing promotions, there are so many reasons to download Full Tilt Poker this month.
11/06/2010
The Chris Ferguson Challenge
A while back I described Chris Ferguson, a popular pro that is sponsored by the Full Tilt Poker download. That entry skimmed upon the fact that he once went from a $0 bankroll to a $10k bankroll. This accomplishment is notable as a lot of people complain that they simply cannot afford to play poker. The Chris Ferguson Challenge demonstrates that anyone can earn thousands of dollars on their Full Tilt Poker download with a lot of work and dedication.
The goal of the Chris Ferguson Challenge was simple: get the Full Tilt Poker download, start with an empty account, and eventually finish with a $10,000 bankroll. Ferguson decided that he would donate the entire $10k to the Save the Children Foundation when he was finished.
A smart player will know that if they wish to conquer the top Texas Holdem sites, they will have to be cautious with their bankroll. Because of this, Ferguson had a few rules for his challenge:
1) Download Full Tilt Poker and participate in freerolls until a real money bankroll is established.
2) Do not enter a Sit&Go for greater than five percent of the total bankroll (except for $2.50 and below).
3) Do not enter an MTT for greater than 2% of the total bankroll (except for $1 and below).
This challenge went on for a very long time because earning money via freerolls on money poker sites usually means beating massive fields. You might even be shocked to know that it was over 7 months before Ferguson had a steady bankroll of $6.50! Understanding the need for patience, Ferguson simply continued with what he was doing. His first major breakthrough came with a runner-up finish in a 683 field. It was a $1 tourney and he won $104.
This significant increase in the bankroll did not mean the end was close by, however. It requires a huge amount of luck to turn $100 into thousands in a short time period, even on the best US poker sites. It took him an additional nine months before he finally reached the $10k mark to complete his own challenge.
An important fact to note from the Chris Ferguson Challenge is that it is almost impossible to accomplish such a feat while lacking knowledge of bankroll management. You should be able to find a useful poker video about bankroll management if you need some help. If you have been in the game for a while, you probably know that protecting your bankroll is essential for long term success.
10/05/2010
Be an Exclusive Black Card Member
The Full Tilt Poker download brought the Black Card to show appreciation for their most loyal players. Essentially, it is a collection of perks given to high volume players. These perks include an exclusive store, personalized customer service, and double the Full Tilt Points. Those accepted into this club will receive a Black Card in the mail.
It takes a lot of hours on the Full Tilt Poker download to get into the Black Card club. To get into the club, players must earn an average of 500 Full Tilt Points over 100 days. This basically means 50,000 Full Tilt Points must be earned over the course of 100 days. This is almost unattainable for microstakes players. For those playing slightly higher, there is a hidden benefit in this requirement: the Full Tilt Poker download gives the Black Card benefits after 3 months rather than after a year.
The most important store item for players on money poker sites is usually cash bonuses. There are 5 Black Card cash bonuses available: $50, $100, $250, $500, and $2,000. Each bonus is available after paying a set number of Full Tilt Points. An unfortunate feature of this new program is that the cash is not available for use right away. Players are required to clear this bonus; for every Full Tilt Point earned, $0.04 of the bonus is cleared. Those that have earned bonuses using a PokerStars bonus code will know exactly what to do. Each bonus expires after 90 days.
Let’s now take a look at the other Black Card benefits. Every hand played under a Black Card membership will earn you twice as many Full Tilt Points. Why play at any of the other top Texas Hold'em sites when you can earn 3x the normal Full Tilt Points at the Happy Hour tables? Regarding exclusive customer support, each Black Card member will receive both a welcome email and personalized physical Black Card sent to their home address. Both the email and the Black Card has the email address of their very own customer support representative. This is one of the only US friendly poker sites that gives personalized support like this.
A lot of people speculate that Full Tilt brought the Black Card as the answer to Supernova, found on the PokerStars download. Many players are pleased that they can attain Black Card status in mere months. The quest for Supernova takes most players an entire year to accomplish. It will be interesting to see how people benefit from this promotion in the long run.
09/07/2010
MiniFTOPS XVII
If you are eager to register for some major tournaments with very significant first place money but your bankroll cannot afford it, you will be happy to hear that MiniFTOPS has arrived. If you have access to a Full Tilt Poker download, you will have the chance to win part of the $6 million being guaranteed over 34 events!
Those already with a Full Tilt Poker download will already know that FTOPS XVII was a great success. MiniFTOPS XVII will contain similar events but with buy-ins 1/10 the size. Everything gets underway on the 8th of September with a $22 NL Holdem MTT. A minimum of $200,000 will be up for grabs, and Phil Gordon will be hosting the festivities.
The Full Tilt Poker download team is probably most excited by their Rush Poker events. There are six Rush tournaments in the schedule, including a $22 No Limit Holdem Rush rebuy event! If this interests you, be sure to put Event 33 into your schedule so that you can have the chance to earn part of its $350k guaranteed prize pool.
The average low stakes player on money poker sites usually cannot afford to play for a $1 million prize pool, but Full Tilt offers that chance with MiniFTOPS. The Main Event will take place on September 19th, featuring a $70+$5 buy-in with $1 million guaranteed! This event is hosted by Carlos Mortensen and is sure to get an impressive number of players.
To give low stakes players the chance to try a two day event, this download free poker site is offering Event 29, a $200+$16 short-handed NLHE tournament. This tournament will feature antes from the start and a $600k prize pool. There is nothing more exciting than knowing you have made it to day 2 of a huge poker event, so tournament enthusiasts won’t want to miss this one.
As usual with FTOPS, you’re not playing just for the prize money. For starters, making it to a final table will net you a special MiniFTOPS jacket. If you go even further and win the event, you will also take home the coveted MiniFTOPS jersey (a silver version). The best US poker sites often have leaderboards for their special events, and Full Tilt is no exception. If you finish first on the MiniFTOPS Leaderboard, you will receive a tournament package worth $10k! The package is meant to put you into the next FTOPS series for free for nearly all the events.
You probably already know that Full Tilt is one of the best US friendly poker sites available on the Internet today. Their hard work with FTOPS and MiniFTOPS, however, has shown that they are working to be the best online poker site period, especially for tournament enthusiasts. If you are a fan of huge prize pools and exciting tournament action, you won’t want to miss the next couple of weeks.
07/30/2010
Patrik Antonius
Antonius started playing poker with his friends just as a hobby, but he eventually built a bankroll online. He started making big money, so he went pro in 2002 and that’s when he moved to Las Vegas. In Vegas he sat in many of the US poker rooms, and he was a regular in the Bellagio’s Big Game. While he played in the WSOP using a satellite ticket he won, he did not win a title. In fact, he still hasn’t won a WSOP bracelet to this day.
Antonius starting putting himself in the poker spotlight in 2005 with some big tournament accomplishments. He started in casinos for US players, cashing two WPT tournaments and then profiting in 3 World Series of Poker events. When he was finished with the WSOP, he profited in another WPT tournament, a runner up finish for $1 million in the WPT Five Diamond Classic. He also played tournaments in Europe in 2005. He came 3rd in the big event in Barcelona and then took 1st in the Baden Classic for over $340k.
Since then, Antonius has continued to add to his winnings. In fact, he’s made approximately $3 million playing live tournament poker. Unlike a lot of popular professionals, though, he’d rather play online than live. He plays a ton of high stakes cash games on money poker sites, often preferring heads-up Texas Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha. Sources say he made over $9 million profit in online casino USA last year! You might already know that he’s the first person to play Tom Dwan in the Million Dollar Challenge.
In his spare time, Antonius enjoys sports betting and betting on golf games. This is all added to the millions of dollars he’s lost to fellow poker players via tournament stakes. Most of us will never see that much money in our lifetimes! The almost degenerate gambling likely makes people want to know if he plays free bet sportsbooks in between his sessions at Full Tilt. It would appear that he has more in common with Phil Ivey than just poker!
If you would like the chance to play with Patrik Antonius, go ahead and play at Full Tilt. He has stated that he enjoys cash games a lot more than tournaments, so look for him in high stakes ring games. Have fun!
07/13/2010
Tom Dwan
Dwan started playing poker around 6 years ago on Paradise, one of the top Texas Hold’em sites at the time. He started playing $6 sit-&-go’s, but eventually he switched to cash games on Full Tilt. To say that Dwan put in massive hours online is an understatement. Mastering the art of multi-tabling allowed Dwan to play incredible volumes on money poker sites, and he quickly moved up in stakes while building up a massive bankroll.
Having your name synonymous with high stakes online poker does not mean your game is immune to variance. Dwan has gone through some impressive swings during his online career, which isn’t surprising considering his main game is heads-up No Limit Hold’em or Pot Limit Omaha. He has won millions of dollars at a time, but he has also lost millions. His most famous downswing came at the hands of a Swedish player named “Isildur1”, who challenged him to a gruelling heads-up match on multiple tables. By the end of the week, Dwan had lost around $5 million. Losing that much money would cause me to give up poker and just start playing Internet slots, but Dwan has obviously proven that he can handle the mental challenge poker provides.
In January 2009, Dwan announced his $1 million challenge. He is willing to play any player (except Phil Galfond) heads-up for 50k hands while playing 4 tables. Any player up money after 50k hands would receive an additional $1.5 million from Dwan, but if Dwan came out ahead, that player would have to agree to give Dwan $500k. Patrik Antonius was Dwan’s first opponent for this challenge, and to date Dwan is leading by $1.8 million after 40k hands. If you would like to take this challenge, simply download free poker from Full Tilt and make a screen name.
To date Dwan has cashed for around $1.5 million in live US poker rooms. Where live events are concerned, he has cashes in the European Poker Tour, the World Poker Tour, the Aussie Millions, and the World Series of Poker. His best WSOP finish was this year in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event where he finished 2nd for $381,885. Many players breathed a sigh of relief when Dwan did not win a bracelet this year because it’s reported that there were a lot of bracelet bets for and against Dwan in 2010.
Dwan always had respect from the online pros, but playing several live events and appearing on TV shows such as Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker has earned him respect from the live pros, as well. All this success and he is only 23 years old! It’s safe to assume that he will enjoy many more accomplishments throughout his career. If this article has inspired you, forget your bingo codes and play some poker instead.
06/24/2010
Chris Ferguson
Ferguson has done a few impressive things with his Full Tilt Poker download. To show that it was possible to do so, he started with a $1 bankroll and turned it into over $20,000. He also accomplished the same thing with $0, and this was made possible by playing freerolls on his Full Tilt Poker download.
To say that Ferguson excels in tournament poker would be an understatement as he’s cashed for almost $8 million in live events. He has cashed in the World Series of Poker 59 times, winning five bracelets and placing third all-time for WSOP cashes. To top off his MTT poker accomplishments, he won the Main Event back 2000 for $1.5 million and he’s also won three WSOP circuit events.
It seems like Ferguson’s science background has really helped him throughout his poker career. His style of play unsurprisingly includes plenty of game theory, and he improves his game with computer simulations. When he’s not playing Rush Poker tournaments on Full Tilt, he can be seen swing dancing at his old university or cutting fruits and vegetables with playing cards. Seems like a fun life!
If you’d like to play poker with Ferguson, forget about your Amex compatible casinos and login to Full Tilt instead. Good luck!
06/06/2010
Phil Ivey
Another reason Ivey would probably want you to make a Full Tilt Poker download is so that he could make some money off you at the tables. His screen name is (surprise, surprise) “Phil Ivey” and he frequently plays Hold Em and Omaha high stake cash games. It’s safe to say that he’s done very well in the online games. Over the last few years, he’s made a total of around $15 million in profit.
Ivey’s done very well in the live poker scene as well, which is why he’s regarded as such a well rounded player. He is first on the all-time tournament money winners list, and his wins include seven World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour event. In total, he’s won over $12 million in live MTT poker. Regarding cash games, he frequently plays hands in the Big Game. The Big Game is a $4k/$8k mixed game held at the Bellagio, one of the most famous US poker rooms in Vegas.
I’m not sure if Ivey is into online casino gambling, but he’s definitely into extracurricular gambling in brick and mortar casinos. He’s rumored to have lost as much as $2 million playing craps in one night alone! If any player’s wallet can handle it, though, it’s Ivey’s. And I have to admit that while I cringe at the thought of losing millions playing craps, the gambling streak in Ivey makes him just that much more interesting. There are plenty of online casinos for USA players, so download one today and practice your own craps game. Maybe you can catch Ivey at a craps table in Vegas in the near future!
05/23/2010
The Fastest Way to Play Poker
Get rid of all these boring moments with a Full Tilt Poker download by playing Rush Poker. When the action reaches you and you choose to fold, you are immediately transported to a new table so that you can get a new hand as soon as possible. If you get a horrible hand and you know you don’t want to play it no matter what happens, you have the option of selecting “quick fold” which takes you to another table and folds your hand when the action finally gets to you. The key is that you don’t have to wait around to fold.
You can obviously play Rush Poker Holdem in this new format, but the site made sure to include Rush Poker Omaha, too. You’ll also find Rush Poker in both ring games and tournaments. Go to the browse area near the top of the Full Tilt lobby if you want to find Rush Poker cash games using a standard view. If you use a basic lobby view, you’ll need to first choose “real money” and then select Rush Poker afterwards. You won’t be able to pick Rush tables with a classic view.
If you want to find Rush Poker tournaments with standard view, you should select “tournament” under “browse” and then choose a tournament with an R symbol. In basic view, you’ll need to first choose the tournament type and buy-in you want, and then the appropriate Rush tournaments will be displayed.
Rush Poker Holdem is the easiest way to play a ton of hands in a short period of time. These tables can deal around four times faster than regular tables, making it appealing for players to clear their Full Tilt Poker bonuses by playing them. It’s difficult to appreciate just how unique this poker format is by reading about it, however, so be sure to try it out yourself. Ever since I tried the Rush tables, online poker hasn’t been the same for me!
