Full Tilt Poker is one of the very fastest growing poker rooms in the world. Within two years, Full Tilt Poker has gone from 0 (discounting the 10 affiliated poker pros) to around 7,000 players online at peak hours. That is some phenomenal growth. With solid financial backers and endorsed by famous poker pros, it is no wonder they have grown so quickly with the absolutely enormous 100% initial sign up bonus up to $600! This kind of promotion is more common with online casinos and not poker rooms. If you are a frequent player, this is some opportunity!

When you hit the tables, you will be in for a surprise. The look and feel is quite different from any other poker room that we have seen. The player tables have a very cartoon-ish feel with cartoon player avatars. Although the interface works well, the player functionality lags quite far behind the best poker rooms. The majority of games is at the lower stake No Limit Holdem with only a handful of tables for the other poker variants. The quality of play at the higher stake games is very high and even at the lower stakes, the quality of players is quite high.

• Texas Hold Em
• Omaha
• Omaha Hi/Lo
• Seven Card Stud
• Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo
• Razz

The player tables are a sight to behold. We are unsure if they have hit a right note with the cartoonesque feel of the player tables, particularly if you are playing 7 Card Stud at $1,000/$2,000 blinds. However, they have guts and the player tables provide a unique look. However, after a while we found that the novelty wears out quickly and soon becomes rather irritating. Decent stats function but very little else to support the player like player notes function and useful player settings facility.

There are plenty of Texas Hold Em ring games at all times of the day. However, there are few players of the other forms of poker but this is steadily growing albeit at a mundane pace. In essence, Full Tilt Poker is primarily for those that have a preference for Hold Em and No Limit in particular. Most of the games are at the lower stakes but higher stakes games are becoming a regular feature. Player volumes are now up with most of the poker rooms/poker networks apart from the 2 market leaders of Party Poker and PokerStars. This is only the second poker room that have 9 player maximum tables rather than the more common 10.

Full Tilt Poker has a reasonable tournament schedule but nothing to get too excited about. Player volumes are, however, quite decent and amount to quite a few thousand at peak hours. Unfortunately, it has been difficult to ascertain what their regular tournament schedule is which is a negative; makes it hard to plan for the future.

DEPOSIT OPTIONS:
VISA, MasterCard, NETeller, FirePay, and Money transfer/eMoney Transfer

CASH OUT OPTIONS:
NETeller, FirePay, Money transfer/eMoney Transfer and and credit card (up to the amount of deposits made from a credit card)

Full Tilt Poker only has e-mail support which is disappointing.

Full Tilt Poker award Full Tilt Points based on raked hands. The Full Tilt Points can be converted into branded Full Tilt Poker products. Also there are VIP Player freerolls where the top 1,500 Full Tilt Point earners qualify for various large guaranteed freerolls with a value of up to $28,000.

Full Tilt Poker offers a 100% deposit match bonus up to $600 for all first time depositors. Playing at for example one $0.5/$1 NL table you will typically earn about $3-$6 in bonus per hour. The fine print. For each dollar raked from a pot, every player who was dealt cards for that hand will earn one point. You can earn partial points if less than one dollar is raked, and you can earn up to three points per hand. Each point is worth $.06, so you can earn up to $18 per hundred hands. The bonus is released to your cash account into increments of 20% of your initial deposit. So if you do a one-time deposit of $100, with each $20 you earn, it will be released into your account.

Full Tilt Poker is an ambitious poker room that was launched in July 2004. Full Tilt Poker has a number of world-class poker pro endorsers, such as Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, John Juanda and Erik Seidel. The pros are not playing so much at the tables but can be seen now and again, even at the play money tables!