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Review: Full Tilt Poker
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www.fulltiltpoker.com
Available on: Windows, Mac, Linux
Full Tilt Poker is one of the most popular online sites, its popularity growing by leaps and bounds each year since it was founded in 2004. It's the second largest poker site in the world behind PokerStars, offering up players a great mix of fast, intuitive software, world-class security, and an endless array of online poker tournaments and cash games.
The site made a name for itself by being the online home for famous poker pros like Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Mike Matusow, and Allen Cunningham, highlighting the pros with their names highlighted in red and special custom avatars. Full Tilt positioned itself as the site where online poker players could "play with the pros". That's still true today, with more top pros joining the site and special promotions and bonuses offered to players who knock out a red Full Tilt pro in tournaments.
Players can grab a seat at virtually any table and any stake 24/7, with action offered in Texas Hold'em, Omaha, 7 Card Stud, Razz, and more. Full Tilt's poker tournaments ran at a wide range of stakes and include satellites and qualifiers for live poker events such as the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and World Poker Tour (WPT) events.
Full Tilt Poker Bonus Codes (7 out of 10)
Full Tilt offers a 100% up to $600 new player signup bonus, matching the amount of the initial deposit a player makes when signing up. Players have up to 90 days to clear the bonus, which is good, as it's one of the slower poker bonuses to clear. The new player signup bonus (and most reload bonuses) are released to players' accounts in $10 increments as they're cleared.
Full Tilt does offer some reload poker bonus codes from time to time but they're less frequent than other online sites. The reload offers are typically based on your frequency of play, with regular players getting slightly smaller reload offers than less frequent players.
Full Tilt Poker Tournaments (10 out of 10)
Tournaments are an area where Full Tilt Poker really shines, as it offers an amazing array of tournaments daily at a variety of buy-ins. No matter what size bankroll you have or what type of tournament you prefer playing, there's usually a tournament right up your alley waiting for you to join at Full Tilt.
The site offers a full range of multi-table and single-table tournaments in formats such as No Limit Hold'em, Limit Hold'em tournaments, Omaha, 7 Card Stud, mixed games, and more. In addition to its big weekly tournament on Sundays (with a guaranteed prize pool of $750,000-$1 million), Full Tilt also offers other big tournaments throughout the week, with smaller buy-in satellites available for all the big online poker tournies.
Full Tilt Poker Cash Games (10 out of 10)
Just like with its poker tournament offerings, Full Tilt serves up a full offering on the cash game side. Its huge base of players means that you can always find a seat at your favorite game and stakes, whether it's .05/.10 NLHE or $10/$20 PLO. Unlike some sites that only have games running in NLHE, Full Tilt offers action at any time of the day at the cash game tables for all the major poker games.
Full Tilt Poker is also home to some of the biggest cash games online. Even if you don't have the bankroll to play with Phil Ivey you can watch him battle with other big online names at the highest of stakes, with top poker pros like Ivey, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, and Patrik Antonius clashing in some huge pots right in front of you.
Full Tilt Poker Customer Service (5 out of 10)
Not every online poker site can be perfect, and customer support is the Achilles heel of Full Tilt. While it's not terrible, Full Tilt only offers support via e-mail, and it can take days for customer support to respond to even the simplest of questions or problems.
Even more annoying is that at time it seems that support didn't even fully read your e-mail, as they sometimes respond with canned, copy-and-pasted responses that don't really address the issue you sent in.
Full Tilt Poker Deposit and Withdrawal Options (9 out of 10)
Full Tilt offers a ton of ways to deposit money into your online poker account, including eCheck, Visa, MasterCard, Neteller, Moneybookers, InstaDebit, ClickandBuy, Webmoney, and Click2Pay, as well as wire transfers from your bank account.
On the withdrawal side, players can select from Visa, Click2Pay, Moneybookers, InstaDebit, and ClickandBuy, or choose to have a check sent to them or a wire transfer done to your bank account.
Conclusion
Full Tilt is one of the most popular online poker sites on the planet, so it's hard to go wrong here. The site offers a great $600 signup bonus as well as non-stop action at both the tournament and cash game tables, with a huge selection of online poker games to choose from. The software is quick and easy to use and Full Tilt Poker offers players a safe, secure online site to play at, as well as one where they can regularly find top poker pros like Phil Ivey, Jesus Ferguson, Patrik Antonius, and Tom "durrrr" Dwan battling it out at the tables.



