Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker is an online poker cardroom launched in June 2004 with the involvement of a team of poker professionals, among them Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman and Chris Ferguson.[1] One popular feature of the site is a "Tips from the Pros" newsletter which includes tips from the professional players associated with the cardroom. The service is split among two web domains, fulltiltpoker.com, which uses real money, and fulltiltpoker.net, which uses only play money.
"Team Full Tilt," made up of the pro players who play regularly on the site and are considered full-fledged members, includes professional players Lederer, Ivey, Bloch, Ferguson, Matusow, Harman, John Juanda, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Clonie Gowen, Gus Hansen and Allen Cunningham.
In addition to Team Full Tilt, several notable pros are "Full Tilt Pros," who are sponsored by the site but are not full-fledged members. This group includes Farzad Bonyadi, David Chiu, John D'Agostino, Layne Flack, Rafe Furst, David Grey, Berry Johnston, Jeff Madsen, Paul Wasicka, David Benyamine, Erica Schoenberg, Mark Vos, Brad Booth, Nenad Medic, Carlos Mortensen, Chip Jett, Karina Jett, Keith Sexton, Paul Sexton, David Oppenheim, Roland de Wolfe, Robert Mizrachi, Michael Craig, Shannon Elizabeth, Andrew Black, Huck Seed, Gavin Smith and Lee Watkinson .
The Hendon Mob (Joe Beevers, Ram Vaswani, Barny and Ross Boatman) also makes its online home at Full Tilt.[2]
Full Tilt offers both Windows and Mac software with equal features. It has also been successfully run under the Linux OS using Wine.
Games offered include Texas hold 'em, Omaha High and Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven Card Stud, Stud Hi-Lo, and mixed games including H.O.R.S.E., HOSE, and HA (Texas and Omaha).
Tournaments take place throughout the day and often include participation from one of the Team Full Tilt pros. Freeroll tournaments are common. "Sit and Go" tournaments are offered for one, two, five, ten, and twenty tables. Tables usually seat 8 or 9 players in each in these tournaments, depending on the game type, though some have six players per table. There are also heads up "Sit and Go" in both 2-player and split 4-player formats.
Jerry Yang, winner of the main event of the 2007 World Series of Poker, is perhaps the most recent notable player found playing at Full Tilt Poker. [3]
Features
In June 2006 Full Tilt Poker launched a new lobby and advanced table actions including:
- New pods featuring countdown timers that more clearly display a player's time left to act
- A total pot display on the table so players can quickly determine how much has already been committed to the pot before deciding how to act
- An improved slider bar in the betting window
Full Tilt has also added "cap limit" games which are played identically to pot-limit or no-limit games, except that the total amount a player can bet in any single hand is capped at 30 times the big blind.
- Full Tilt Poker offers hand history files for analysis, discussion and conversion using a poker hand converter.
In January 2007 they also added rebuy tournaments as well as an optional "racetrack" view of the table. This view flattens the 3D model that Full Tilt had used in the past in favor of a flat table window.
Full Tilt on television
Full Tilt Poker is or has been the principal sponsor of a number of poker television programs, including:
Advertising
Full Tilt Poker has a large television advertising presence during programs which promote poker. These commercials advertise FullTiltPoker.net, which hosts only play money games. These same games are available through Full Tilt Poker alongside the games played for real money.
US players
On September 29 2006, the U.S. Congress passed the Safe Port Act. Senator Bill Frist successfully lobbied to attach unrelated anti-gambling language to the act; this language is known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
Though a number of major online cardroom operators have closed their doors to U.S. players as a result of the legislation, Full Tilt Poker continues to offer its services to U.S. players. The company has stated that poker is a game of skill, and that the recently passed legislation does not apply to Full Tilt's operations. [4]
References
- ^ The Times: Poker Face Chris Ferguson
- ^ The Times: Poker Face Joe Beevers
- ^ fulltiltpoker.com Jerry Yang - 2007 World Series of Poker Champion
- ^ "An Open Letter From Full Tilt Poker Regarding the State of Your Online Poker Experience". Full Tilt Blog. Full Tilt Poker. 2006-10-02. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
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