One of the leading Poker Sites on the Internet, Full Tilt Poker has caught a large share of the lucrative poker market using superior software programming, professional player endorsements and excellent external media advertising as well as relentless online marketing.
Full Tilt Poker was started and funded by a group of close-knit professional players including Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Gordon, Phil Ivey and Jennifer Harmon. These players and thier management have really helped fashion an internet craze really, by bringing professional players in to the heart of the "playing field" so to speak.
It isn't uncommon to see Chris Ferguson, for example playing in 1 and 2 dollar NL holdem tournaments, all the while chatting freely with loyal Full Tilt players. In fact Chris Ferguson has been somewhat of a bankroll genius as more than once he has literally started with ZERO dollars and built $10,000 bankrolls, all from starting with playing free rolls. Yes you can play free poker and make it pay!
If you are looking for some big money action to watch, Full Tilt is the place because many of the resident pros connect at tables nightly where pots reach into the hundreds of thousands. Yes, you read that right.
A lot of pros play on the internet to kill time between big tournaments, live action games, traveling. Many have monikers that you won’t be able to associate with the player, but on Full Tilt, not only do they go by their own name they have a caricature to along with it.
The result of which are some of the biggest audiences (rail) for internet poker tables. The chat box just goes crazy when Gus Hansen or Phil Ivey sit at a table and you can also get a word in with some other pros who don’t mind chatting while playing. Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch and Jennifer Harmon come to mind in that regard.
So where do they play? Gus Hansen likes to play NL and Limit Holdem as well as PL Omaha HL and PL/L Omaha. The betting ranges from 200/400 to 1000/2000! His tables are usually 6 seated, and here you will find those monster pots I was mentioning. These same tables you can find on occasion Phil Ivey, John Agostino and much more regularly, David Benyamine.
Erick Lindgren often participates in tournaments with bigger payouts and can be counted on to be a gentleman at any table and a great ambassador for Full Tilt.
Andy Bloch mostly sticks to the tournament action at Full Tilt, often participating and/or hosting FTOPS events, Sunday tournaments and qualifiers. He will generously chat with you as well even if you are on the rail. This goes the same for Chris Ferguson who in addition will play some low entry fee tournaments and some micro limit holdem tables.
We can’t forget about Mike Matusow, who until recently was online almost every day. During a recent interview on Poker After Dark he sadly admitted that he has lost 2.5 million playing online poker. So hopefully when he cures that situation he may return to some of these tables as well, because if anything else, he IS an entertaining player.
Full Tilt Poker Madness at Midnight (click to read full article)
With an attrition rate that quick, playing tight has more inherent value as a style of play and strategy because the eliminated players are simply building the prize pot for the remaining contenders. I mean that is how all tournaments work, but an expeditious exit rate certainly adds to your expected value in terms of deciding which tournament to play.
