Full Tilt Poker is a bit of a late comer to the game. Long after the big sites like Paradise and Party were pretty well dominating or being dominated, Full Tilt Poker came along with a pretty innovative product. Full Tilt Poker looked different, Full Tilt Poker felt different and Full Tilt Poker played different. What felt nice is that it was obvious that this package was designed by some people with an understanding of the game of poker and an understanding of software development. Often it seems to me that the older an interface is the more hodgepodge and clunky it begins to feel as they squeeze new things in over the years. The software at Full Tilt Poker has a certain elegance that is a cut above most other offerings out there.

The Full Tilt Poker lobby views, the preferences on your table are all highly configurable. You can set up your own custom views of the Full Tilt Poker lobby specifying the range of limits and sorting orders among other things. If you are a little technical, you can even make your own playing cards and backgrounds for the game, or find sets(pods) others have made online. (Try Tiltboys.com look for other crap), If you don’t like cartoonish avatars, you can turn them off. You also have all the standard offerings and choices with player notes, and statistics at Full Tilt Poker. The betting options are done well, well laid out and easy to use. The chip animations, playing cards and other necessary feedback you need to play the game are well done for the most part.

Full Tilt poker is highly aggressive with promotions, especially when it comes to getting Full Tilt Poker players to the WSOP. Full Tilt Poker has a full schedule of satellites for the event. Full Tilt Poker has sweeteners like offering to add ten million to first place for the 2006 WSOP if you won your seat at Full Tilt. Full Tilt Poker has a 600.00 deposit bonus, poker fantasy leagues and a long list of other promotions.

At Full Tilt they love poker and it shows. They want you to become a better player, and on their site, Full Tilt Poker has a long list of top name pros who contribute with articles on poker tactics and strategies, called Team Full Tilt. Names like Howard Lederer, Phil Ivy, Chris Ferguson, Jennifer Harman, and Phil Gordon, to name but a few, all contribute articles and time to Full Tilt. You will find them playing in all limits of games and tournaments as well as at free money tables. (I sat in a tournament chatting with, and trying to bust, Andy Bloch.)

Full Tilt Poker offers a great variety of games, both in type of game and in limits. The player traffic is strong enough now (over 13,000 players online as I write on a Friday afternoon), that you will be able to find any holdem game limit you might want all the time, and a good selection of limits at the other games most of the time. NLHE limits range from $0.05/$0.10 to as high $50.00/$100.00. Limit Holdem games range from $0.25/$0.50 to as high as $200/$400. The other games they offer are stud and omaha in high and hi/lo versions and razz

Full Tilt Poker has a full rooster of tournaments available with free roll, satellites, single and multi table sit n go’s, and special events. Full Tilt Poker offer tournaments in all games with buy-ins ranging from 1.00 to 2500.00. Free poker games are also offered at Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker had nothing specific about shuffle security.Read why this is bad

The options for views in the Full Tilt Poker lobby seem a little confusing, it is not at all intuitive what some of the choices do.

The text colors in the Full Tilt Poker lobby are hard to read, they do not contrast enough. Full Tilt Poker should stick with black, brown, dark blues and greens, and avoid things like yellow and orange.

Talk around the net is that the bonus at Full Tilt Poker, while large, takes a lot of time to earn compared to others.

Tournament rounds are short rounds with small increases. The rounds are 6 minutes, the turbo rounds are 5 minutes. More tournaments at Full Tilt Poker with longer-10-15 minute limits would be nice.

Dear Tilter,

Full Tilt Poker is here to stay! As an online poker player, you have probably heard about the new legislation passed by the U.S. Congress earlier this week that attempts to prevent you from being able to transfer money to online gaming sites.

While this new law has prompted some sites to announce plans to abandon the U.S. market in coming days, we assure you that Full Tilt Poker will continue to provide all of its players - both inside and outside of the United States - with a full complement of real money ring games and tournaments for their enjoyment.

After consultation with numerous legal experts in this field, we want to make you aware of the following:

* Legal The new U.S. legislation does not in any way attempt to criminalize the act of you playing online poker. By playing online at Full Tilt Poker, you are not breaking any U.S. Federal laws.

* Full Access The passage of the new Internet Gaming law will not have any impact on your day-to-day experience at Full Tilt Poker. We will provide all of our players, everywhere in the world, with full access to all of our games and tournaments.

* Easy Deposits and Withdrawals We will continue to provide our players with all of the safe, secure and convenient methods for transferring money to and from the site. In fact, in recent discussions with our payment processors, we have been assured that this new law will have no immediate impact on their day-to-day business. And as always, any monies that you have on deposit with Full Tilt Poker remain completely safe and secure.

Furthermore, we firmly believe that online poker is not encompassed by this new legislation. In any event, we will continue to lobby for an express carve-out for online poker and for your right to play a truly American game from the privacy of your own home and computer.

We are excited about the future here at Full Tilt Poker and in the coming weeks and months, we plan to roll out many new features designed to enhance your online poker experience.

We appreciate your loyalty to our site and, in turn, want you to know that we will remain loyal to our valued players in the United States and throughout the world.

We look forward to seeing you at the table.

Sincerely,
Full Tilt Poker

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