Full Tilt Poker Player Base review

Full Tilt Poker has its doors open to US players and this adds a different perspective to the game, enabling players to go head-to-head in a global competition.

Full Tilt Poker offers a good variety of cash games, tournaments and sit’n’gos. There is always an active table to satisfy your cravings. Either being from beginner to expert, you will find competitors to suit your stakes and level, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

To give you an idea of the extreme level of competition that is also available at Full Tilt Poker, let’s have a look at a promotion that is currently running at Full Tilt.

Team Full Tilt’s latest player, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, is challenging the online poker world.

He has offered to put up a crazy $1.5 million to any opponent’s $500,000, playing heads-up at four tables simultaneously for 50,000 hands.

Once the 50,000 hands have been played, the player who is up – even by as little as one dollar – wins the Challenge. It is as easy as that. If “durrrr” wins, he keeps any money he won during the Challenge and also takes home the challenger’s $500,000. On the other hand, if one of his opponents wins, they keep their winnings and the $1.5 million that “durrrr” has put up.

Of course, this is an extreme case for high stake players and would not suit everyone. I’m still looking for my $500,000 to put up for the competition. In fact, I’m still looking for my $100,000 J.

At lower and reasonable limits the players at Full Tilt Poker tend to be a bit tighter than those playing at most other online poker rooms.

You can find that peak hours at Full Tilt usually occur in the US evening time, around 7 PM.

Full Tilt Poker Software review

The software at Full Tilt Poker is excellent with no discernable bugs or problems and would have to be one of the best on the market. It is available for both MacIntosh and Windows platforms and its current version is 4.25, powered by the OpenSSL Project and Eric Young (who has also written software for Pokerstars), which alone should be a guarantee of quality.

The software has a fresh look, and is very easy to navigate through. Also, it runs smoothly and is quite quick, without using too mch system resources.

Players have the option to choose their avatar, with multiple cartoonish characters available and there is sure to be one that suits your liking.

On top of that, Full Tilt Poker makes it possible to also customize your table theme, your position at the table, the look of the cards and sounds and notifications. It is also very easy to resize your table by simply dragging the window to your desired size, starting from very small, all the way to full-screen. This makes it easy for a player to play as many tables as desired at once.

Statistics shown in the lobby to assist table selection are average pot size, percent of players seeing the flop and hands per hour.

Players can also set up default values for their buy-in and rebuy at cash tables. Full Tilt Poker has even added an option within the software to assure responsible gambling: basically, it enables players to ban themselves from playing at Full Tilt Poker for a selective time, from 12 hours up to 180 days.

Full Tilt Poker Extras

Have you got the need for speed? Are you hungry for action and sick of waiting for the next flop?

Then Full Tilt Poker has definitely got the solution for you, with its new game Rush Poker.

Rush Poker was launched in January 2010 and is designed to be an action-packed, fast poker experience, enabling players to set their own pace.

This new game type gives a player the option of “Quick fold” if they are not satisfied with their hand. The Quick Fold option immediatly enables the player to move onto a completely new table with a new hand (which is chosen from a random pool of players). Quick fold is the key to make players able to choose their pace without having to wait for the other players to finish the hand. Rush Poker is a truly fast paced game and is like playing several tables at once from one table. Experience has shown us  that a player could achieve around 250-275 hands per hour per seat. Also having the opportunity to have 8 seats going at once, there will be no lack of action.

The video above is in-game play of Rush Poker.