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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.

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.

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.

Patrik Antonius

Today’s blog entry will go over Patrik Antonius, another pro you can play against on a Full Tilt Poker download. Antonius was born in 1980 in Finland where he worked as both a tennis coach and model before he started earning huge profits on a Full Tilt Poker download. Today he is living in Monte Carlo with his wife and daughter, and they are expecting a second child later this year.

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!

Tom Dwan

Many players make a Full Tilt Poker download with the hopes that one day they will be good enough to challenge Tom Dwan, otherwise known as “durrr”. Born in 1986 in New Jersey, Dwan has quickly made himself a household name in the poker world. He started as an online player on a Full Tilt Poker download, so it makes sense that most of his success has come online. However, he is starting to make some noise in the live arena, as well. He has played in several live events since turning 21, and he can be seen on TV on several high stakes poker shows.

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.

Chris Ferguson

Chris Ferguson is another professional that has earned a whack of money off the Full Tilt Poker download. Nicknamed “Jesus”, Ferguson is well known for sitting at live events with very long hair and a prominent beard. He was born in California, and his parents both have PhDs in mathematics. Ferguson also earned a PhD, but it was in computer science at UCLA.

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!

The Fastest Way to Play Poker

In this entry I would like to talk about yet another great feature of a Full Tilt Poker download: Rush Poker. It’s a unique poker format accessible only with a Full Tilt Poker download, and players of all skill levels have found reasons to love it. Online players are familiar with how slowly the game can go. It could be that a person across the virtual felt gets dealt into a tricky situation, so he takes a minute to figure it out. Or maybe a player went to get himself a drink and couldn’t get back before his time bank ran out, so the table ended up waiting until his hand was finally folded. There are countless ways to slow down the game, and it can get a little frustrating.

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!

WSOP Satellites

Previous articles have already mentioned that a Full Tilt Poker download is a must have for tournament players, and today’s entry will reinforce that notion. I am going to explain why it’s beneficial for you to win your way into the World Series of Poker Main Event (WSOP ME) by using your Full Tilt Poker download. I know that a lot of poker players are already following the advice I’m about to give you – as I write this, over 400 Full Tilt players have already won their ME seats!

 

A Full Tilt Poker download gives you the chance to win more than just a seat to the WSOP ME because the site is running satellites for complete prize packages. If you’re a lucky winner in a satellite and receive a package, you receive the $10k buy-in, $2k cash for spending money or travel expenses, dinner with Full Tilt professional players, and the option to stay at the Rio for free!

 

If you don’t have money in your Full Tilt account, make a poker deposit immediately because there are a ton of ways to satellite into the ME. Even if you can’t make a deposit, you can compete for one of the 50 free seats available by playing in special freerolls. If your bankroll is limited or you don’t want to risk too much money, you can try your hand in the $1 ME satellites that run every Sunday. There’s also Step tournaments, daily shootouts with seats guaranteed, and direct qualifiers that run five times per week. Your best bet for winning a package at Full Tilt is going to be the 150 Seat Main Event Guarantee tournament, however. You can buy-in to this satellite for $600+$40, but if bankroll management prevents you from doing so, you can also satellite in for as little as $1.

 

Once you’ve won your seat, Full Tilt has some amazing promotions if you can go deep in the tournament. First of all, if you can cash the event, you automatically receive a complimentary seat to the WSOP ME in 2011. If you go even further and make it to the final table, you get a little Full Tilt bonus cash. Finishing 9^th to 4^th will net you $50k with no strings attached, and 3^rd or 2^nd will get you $100k. Now if you were to win the event, the money is incredible: you receive $10 million. No, that is not a typo, you win TEN million dollars. That is an unbelievable bonus for winning! You can think of it as a Full Tilt sponsorship because basically you will receive $1 million per year for 10 years and you will represent the site for that long as well.

 

I think I’ve gone ahead and proven once again that Full Tilt is just incredible for the MTT poker player. I really don’t see why you would try to win your seat at any other site. Not only have they made sure that players with any bankroll can participate, they’ve made a final table incentive that no other site can match!

FTOPS

Now that you’ve made a Full Tilt Poker download, it’s time to put it to good use. The latest Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is just around the corner, so it’s time to get ready for some long days of tournament action. Let’s be honest, this is why you made a Full Tilt Poker download in the first place: 30 huge poker tournaments, $18 million in guaranteed prize pools. This is what poker player dreams are made of! It all gets started on April 23^rd.

 

Get ready for an impressive variety of poker. The Hold Em players get to choose from standard full ring, turbo 6-max, quadruple shootouts, and everything in between. Fans of other poker games will be satisfied as well: choose from PLO, HORSE, 7-game, Stud, and Razz. There’s an excellent variety of tournament types as well. You’ll have your regular full-ring version of course, but get ready to also play tournaments such as the super turbo or the quadruple shootout event. Every player should have a Full Tilt Poker download this month because there is seriously something for everyone in this tournament series.

 

A buy-in to one of these events is anywhere from $100+$9 to $2,000+$100. The guaranteed prize pools for each event vary as well, starting at $100k for stud and going all the way up to an impressive $3 million for the main event. Now if you’re a small stakes player and following correct bankroll management prevents you from playing these events, Full Tilt isn’t going to leave you out. You have the option to participate in MiniFTOPS, a tournament series that mirrors the FTOPS events but at around 10% of the buy-ins. You’ll need to wait until May 7^th to play these lower buy-in events. It will be well worth the wait, though – MiniFTOPS even comes with its own guaranteed prize pool of $7 million!

 

To encourage as many people as possible to make a poker deposit into their site, Full Tilt also has a few bonus prizes for its winners. To start off, anyone that makes an FTOPS final table receives a limited edition FTOPS jacket. If you go even further and win the event, you also receive a special FTOPS jersey (colored gold) and a gold jersey avatar to highlight your win at the Full Tilt tables. The ultimate goal, however, is to win enough events to finish first on the FTOPS leaderboard. Do this and you win a custom avatar and free entry into every event in the next FTOPS (except the two-day event)!

 

If you’re reading this and for some reason you haven’t made that Full Tilt Poker download yet, FTOPS should be enough to convince you to make the plunge. You don’t want to miss out on a chance to earn part of the $25 million that the site is guaranteeing between both their series. Don’t forget to take advantage of the Full Tilt Poker bonus when you make your deposit because you’re sure to clear plenty of it while playing in these big buy-in events. Good luck at the tables!

Full Tilt Poker VIP Program

So I’ve already mentioned that a Full Tilt Poker download is well worth it due to their great deposit bonus, their game selection, and good software. If you need even more reasons to make that Full Tilt Poker download, you might be interested in learning about their VIP program. Full Tilt’s VIP program is unique for a few reasons. When you play real money poker, you receive points that you can spend at the Full Tilt Poker Store, and there are special tables during special times in which you’re able to earn points two or three times faster. You can also show what you’re made of by participating in the Iron Man Challenge.

 

To entice people to make a Full Tilt Poker download, the site rewards its players with Full Tilt Points when real money games are played. In cash games, the players at a table receive one Point for every $1 of rake paid in a given hand. As an example, if you were to receive cards in a pot that ended up raking $2.25, you would receive 2.25 Points. Each hand gives a maximum of three Points. In tournament poker, you receive seven Full Tilt Points for every $1 in tournament fees that you’re charged. So if you were to play in a $200+$16 tournament, you would receive 112 Full Tilt Points. You can see how many Points you have by clicking the cashier button in the lobby.

 

So you’ve made a Full Tilt Poker download and you’ve earned a bunch of Points. Now what? Now you spend them at the Full Tilt Poker Store on anything you want! The store has several items including Full Tilt apparel such as hats and shirts, electronics such as cameras and sound systems, and drinkware such as martini glasses and freezer mugs. You can get all sorts of poker items such as chip sets, you can increase your poker knowledge by buying a book, or you can choose from a huge pile of random items such as flip flops or dog leashes. If absolutely nothing interests you in the store, you can also use the Points to play special MTT poker and satellite into big buy-in tournaments.

 

To earn Points faster, play on the special Happy Hour tables that are marked with a smiley face symbol during the appropriate times. When you play at these tables, you earn two or even three times more points than usual. Happy Hour changes daily, so you need to keep your eye on the lobby each day to figure out when you should be playing.

 

If you’re a high volume player and you play almost every day, you might be interested in the Iron Man Challenge. When you receive a certain number of Points for a certain number of days in a month, you receive medals. For example, earning 50 Points for 20 days or 100 Points for 15 days in a month would earn you bronze medals. The ultimate reward is Iron Man medals which are rewarded when you earn 200 Points for 25 days out of the month. There are four statuses, and reaching a certain status for consecutive months will earn you even more medals. These medals can be redeemed for exclusive merchandise in the Iron Man Challenge Store. Each status also has a chance to play in a special freeroll where you can win your way to a heads-up match with a $50k or $100k prize! And for those that play an unimaginable number of poker hands, there is Iron Man Plus if you can earn 500 Points per day.

 

VIP programs are springing up at every site to try to convince you concentrate your playing in one spot. With freerolls, bonuses, and a great merchandise store, Full Tilt definitely makes a strong case for playing at their site exclusively. Be warned that maintaining the Iron Man status is a difficult feat, but the bonus merchandise and freerolls might make the extra work worth it.