About Full Tilt
Apr 17, 2019 Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker regained access and use of their domain names before settlement talks began. The acquisition opportunity for Pokerstars took shape once regulators began looking into the two companies financial status. Pokerstars acquired Full Tilt Poker due to Full Tilt’s poorly run finances. Full Tilt Poker’s player pool was fully integrated into PokerStars on May 17 and the poker platform was officially retired. In the wake of the final closure of what was once one of the largest.
About Full Tilt
Full Tilt is one of the most popular online poker sites in the world thanks to its fantastic software and the ongoing promotion that it runs.
Owned by Amaya Gaming – owner of PokerStars – Full Tilt is an online poker that is focussed on player experience and enjoyment. There is not only high-octane poker action to enjoy, Full Tilt players can now get involved in some of the most exciting casino games.
On May 17, 2016, Full Tilt migrated to the PokerStars platform with which it now shares player traffic, giving Full Tilt players a wider variety of cash games, a much bigger tournaments.
Stars Rewards
Full Tilt uses the same loyalty scheme as PokerStars. Known as Stars Rewards, players fill up their progress bars when they earn reward points for playing real money games. Once the progress bar is filled, players receive a special chest, which when opened awards gifts such as StarsCoins, free play and bonuses of between $50 and $1,000.
Games Offered at Full Til
- Texas Hold’em
- Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo
- Omaha Hi/Lo
- Five Card Omaha and 5 Card Omaha Hi/Lo
- Five Card Draw
- Seven Card Stud and Stud Hi/lo
- Razz
- Single Draw Lowball 2-7
- Triple Draw Lowball 2-7
- 8-Game Mix
- Courchevel and Courchevel Hi/Lo
- H.O.R.S.E
- Badugi
- Fast fold variants of Hold’em and Omaha
Full Tilt players can now compete in the WCOOP, SCOOP, TCOOP, MicroMillions and weekly tournaments such as the Sunday Million. You can also qualify for major live events with Full Tilt including the European Poker Tour (EPT), PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) and many more.
Can You Withstand the Pace of Zoom Poker?
It was Full Tilt who introduced 'fast-fold' poker to the masses with its Rush Poker product, which it now calls Zoom following its migration with PokerStars. At a standard cash game table you are seated on the same table for the duration of your game, but in Zoom Poker, as soon as you click the fast fold button you are moved to a new table, with new opponents and fresh hole cards. If you don’t like the cards dealt to you on this new table, then simply click fold again and be whisked away to a new table once again!
This superb format allows you to play thousands of hands per hour if you are able to play several tables at once, which in turn allows you to climb up the VIP scheme faster and clear bonuses quickly.
Win up to $1 million with Spin & Go's
Full Tilt runs 'Spin and Go's' tournaments, a series of 3-handed super turbo sit-and-go events that bring players at the table to play against only two opponents for a prize pool that can go up to a hefty $2,500 for a buy-in as low as $0.25.
Jackpot Sit-and-Gos are available with a buy-in range from $0.25, $1, $3, $7, $15, $30, $60, $100, a $250 and give players the chance to play for a prize pool that can go all the way up to 12,000 times the buy-in.
You can turn $15 into $150,000 if you hit the top prize pool multiplier. Potentially become a millionaire by playing in the $100 and $250 buy-in tournaments.
Huge Poker Tournament Festivals
Full Tilt is the home to several major poker festivals that give players the chance to win some huge cash prizes.
The largest of these festivals is the World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP), which attracts some of the best players in the business. The more affordable MicroMillions gives you the opportunity to play in similar events to the WCOOP FTOPS events, but with a buy-in a fraction of the size!
Other festivals include the Turbo Championship Of Online Poker (TCOOP), and Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP).
Customer Service
There is an extensive FAQ in the Help Centre on the Full Tilt website that should be more than enough to help sort out any problems you may encounter. Should you need further assistance, email support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In a blog article earlier this month, Full Tilt Managing Director Dominic Mansour highlighted a number of changes to the site's ring games designed to 'bring the fun back to online poker' and 'make the site more exciting.'
Those changes were instituted today as players who launch the Full Tilt client are prompted to update the software to the latest version. Once the update is complete, the changes to the ring game lobby become apparent.
Gone are the long list of individual tables, traditionally the view used by the vast majority of online poker sites, and instead are in groups of tables. The lobby is still sorted by stakes, number of tables and buy-in sizes, but players can no longer choose their seat as the new software automatically finds a random open seat and places them in it.
If we wanted to be serious about trying to fix a broken poker economy, we had to find all of the biggest issues and either really solve them, or remove them.
Taking to the Full Tilt Blog, Mansour explained that the site would use the same system found in live poker rooms.
'When a player arrives at a live card room, they tell the poker room manager what game they want to play and the poker room manager will take them to a table with a free seat so that they can start playing straight away,' said Mansour. 'As players join and leave the live card room, the poker room manager brings new people together to create new tables, and moves players from short-handed tables to ensure every player has the best possible experience.'
Another major change is the removal of all heads-up tables. Mansour highlights the fact that the heads-up games were being adversely impacted by the process known in the industry as 'bum hunting,' where more experienced players prey on weaker players and refuse to play similarly skilled opponents.
'Firstly, heads-up games were being adversely impacted by the minority of experienced players who targeted ‘weaker' opponents rather than take on all challengers. Secondly, new players who tried out the heads-up games found it intimidating and confusing.'
According to Mansour, this discouraged many players and kept them from heading back to the virtual felt. 'In short, heads-up ring games just didn't form part of a healthy poker ecosystem, which made our decision to remove them easier.'
Answering to the comments and concerns expressed by many regulars at Full Tilt on the popular poker forum Two Plus Two, Full Tilt Poker Room Manager Shyam Markus said that the decision to remove the heads-up tables has been extensively debated within the team before it became operative.
'It wasn't a decision we reached lightly. All of the suggestions were discussed. Lots of ideas that weren't suggested were discussed. We had a full specification all written up for the direction we wanted to take the heads-up games,' Markus explained.
'The problem was that nothing changed the fact that the more new players play heads-up, the less likely they are to continue playing. If we wanted to be serious about trying to fix a broken poker economy, we had to find all of the biggest issues and either really solve them, or remove them.
'It's not going to be a super popular decision, and it's absolutely possible we've made a mistake,' Markus continued. 'But for now it's the decision we feel has the best chance of helping to turn around some of the biggest problems we face and return to growing the site.'
Also removed from Full Tilt's cash game offering are the nosebleed stakes plus all stakes of Stud, Draw and Mixed Game tables. The maximum stakes available are now $10/$20 for No-Limit Hold'em, $15/$30 for Fixed-Limit Hold'em, $10/$20 for Pot-Limit Omaha and $2/$5 for Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Low.
Full Tilt's newly appointed Player Ambassador, Marc Kennedy joined the discussion and welcomed the changes, hoping the new strategy will once again innovate the poker industry.
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'There are obviously going to be people who don't like some or maybe even all of the changes, that is always going to be the case when you have a major shake-up,' Kennedy commented. 'I think these are good changes and they are just one piece of the puzzle. There is some really cool stuff on the horizon.'
Kennedy hinted also at an all-new VIP program to be rolled out in the near future and praised Full Tilt's tendency to look for new ways to grow its online business.
'They are trying some new things and Full Tilt has never been a company that is scared to try new things. If they don't work they try something else. I like that mentality. Of course, sometimes this means that you are going to make mistakes, but sometimes you may also end up reshaping the entire industry as it happened with Rush Poker.'
The previously mentioned plans to alter the rake structure and rewards system were not included in the new software release, but PokerNews understands these changes will be deployed in the coming weeks.
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