Full Tilt Review

Full Tilt is known for offering the highest staked games in online poker featuring some of the world’s elite players like Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Clonie Gowens among others. They provide seats to live events via satellites and qualifiers scheduled daily and host a $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament each month. Tournament players can enter the leaderboard competition with a three tiered format. Full Tilt Poker still accepts players from the US.

Ring Games

This is the only room online where you can find a complete spread of poker games ranging from Texas Holdem to H.O.S.E (Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo). Other variations include; Omaha Hi, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud Hi, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo and Razz, H.A. (Hold'em and Omaha Hi), and H.O.R.S.E. Each of the games are supported in real money play or free play allowing you to first learn the game without having to risk anything. The competition does vary some from your other rooms but there are still plenty of loose and action filled games to take advantage of. The stakes start as low as $0.05/$0.10 and can spread as high as $500/$1000 NL. Even if you don’t have the bankroll to play in these games you will find the pro players seated at the tables. These games are always highlighted in red and are incredible to watch. Full Tilt takes a 5% rake with $3 cap from each pot.

Tournaments

The tournament schedule is very impressive offering something for everyone. The buyins start as small as $1 and depending on which event you would like to play in can run as high as a couple thousand. Not only are they available in various formats but quite often you will see 1000+ players registered making the prize pools significantly higher than any other poker room online. Full Tilt Poker sends players to live events and announced they will be starting their satellites and qualifiers for the 2008 WSOP as of March 1st. Other special tournaments include daily guaranteed tournaments and a monthly $1,000,000 GP. Use full tilt poker referral code KINGATPOKER for a $600 sign up bonus.

Software

Full Tilt just went through a huge update with the most notable features including T/$ (tournament dollars), advanced note taking accessible from the lobby, and the ability to automatically top up your account. Overall, the lobby is very easy to navigate with each of the games sectioned in their respective formats. If you find the lobby a bit overwhelming Full Tilt has integrated a great lobby filter which allows you to choose the games you want to play and removing the unrelated ones from the menu. Statistics are available in the lobby allowing you to see the % of viewed hands, the average pot size and hands per hour. The tables offer your own game stats, along with the ability to take notes on your opponents. Something I do like is the last hand feature which replays the previous hand in animation.
Full Tilt Poker only provides customer support by email. With the size of the room and the amount of players online you can expect a longer delay than most others.

Deposit methods include; Visa, MasterCard, NETeller, EPassporte, Click2Pay, and cash transfer.