Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker is now the best online poker site on the web, well says about 80% of America and the whole of Europe. It has the biggest TV presence on the web attracting all the top players in the world to join the Full Tilt team. Full Tilt Poker is also the host of one of the biggest tournaments in online poker, FTOPS. Along with the inclusion of the Full Tilt Store and the happy hours for double points Full Tilt is arguably the best site on the web.

Pros                                 Cons

Great value for money       Other sites may be 
in tourneys.                       more popular with

Big franchise events like      poker players, (Poker-
FTOPS.                             stars for example)

Great way of spending        Lots of competition at
points in the store.             higher levels

Easy to find tournaments
and players.

Great range of poker games

Features
One of the most special features on Full Tilt is the multi million dollar FTOPS event. It hosts 25 events which attract virtually every pro on the team and millions of hopeful online players. The last winner of the FTOPS main event took home a massive $456,056,62. The most recent new feature on Full Tilt is the Durrrr challenge. Tom 'durrrr' Dwan has been one of the most profitable players inonline history and was keen to make a name for himself. Durrrr has offered to put up $1.5 million to any opponents 500k heads - up for 50,000 hands over 4 tables. The first heads up play he had was against the cash game specialist Patrik Antonious. He also has a game coming up against Phil Ivey. With continuous qualifiers to events like the WPT along with other special features these are making Full Tilt as popular as it is today.

Full Tilt Software
The software on Full Tilt is one of the best, it supplies great graphics, easy to use lobby, great hand history use, brilliant note viewing, and you can always trust an update to make the site better and better. If you look at the site a year a go to what it is now, you will see that the improvements are massive. One of the assets is that you can see the notes before you sit on the table, this lets you know whether the players at the table are aggressive or tight (depending on the notes you have)
The graphics on Full Tilt are bright, colourful and have a good choice of table background. It also has the option of having a normal table also with no backgroung, another asset on Full Tilt. One of the most popular things about the software on Full Tilt is that you can save the hand history onto the hard drive, this gives players the opportunity to analyse their play and improve. There are not many down sides to the Full Tlt software or even none, that is why Full Tilt just is a step ahead of the other online sites. 

Player Traffic
Full Tilt get a lot of players joining their site, they have a lot of players joining for 1 reason, to play the pros. Being able to play the likes of Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Chris Ferguson and many more is a very good reason to join Full Tilt. However Full Tilt is not just about the pros and the largely payed tourneys, It is also about how easy it is to get into and the range of games you can play, from Hold'em to Horse or Razz. There are always a very large amount of poker players on Full Tilt from all over the world, The more players, the better chance of taking more money! There is always good and bad player son there depending on the strakes you play.

Poker Games
Full Tilt poker has the largest range of games i have seen from an online poker site. These games are NL Holdem, Limit Holdem, Omaha H/L, Omaha Hi, Stud H/L, Stud Hi, Razz and Horse, there is also some small more unknown games. All these games are also very popular, they all offer a few tables or more 24/7.

Full Tilt Poker Academy
The latest feature that has been brought to Full Tilt Poker is the poker academy. All the Full Tilt pros have come together to produce this academy, it includes reviewing of hands from Poker After Dark tournaments and beginner classes for Hold'em play. There are players on there currently like Chris Ferguson, Alan Cunningham, Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Phil Gordon, Kristy Gazes, Nick Schulman, Erick Lindgren, Paul Wasika, There are also lessons on there and more, check out the site by the link on the sidebar. You can qualify for freerolls on Full Tilt by doing challenges like position play etc. 
 

Tounaments
Tournaments on Full Tilt are a major part of the online site  , there are many, many tournaments with great value for money. Especially the private tourneys which offer a lot of money. There are also a lot of franchise tournaments like FTOPS as i have talked about and other qualifiers like the qualifiers for the WPT. You can go into tournaments as a play money players and end up playing for hundreds of thousands of dollars. All the limits are available from very high buy ins and very low for beginners. 


Other Features

Table Views - There are 4 different styles of tables to choose from on Full Tilt. This is in comparison to UB with 2. 


Full Tilt Points - Great use of points with tournament buy - in and Spending in the Full Tilt Store. 


Hand History - Easy view of previous hands with a print screen  view of the table. Hand views last for up to 50 hands. 


Notes - You can mark a players aggression by using colours, this way when you see the players avatar you can tell whether they are tight or aggressive. There is also an easy way to get the players notes up.


Lobby - Easy viewed lobby not too many features however easy use for beginners. Lots of tournaments at all limits and rakes including cap NL.


Tournament info. - An easy way of seeing the tournament information, quick and easy way to see largest, average and smallest stacks, also see where you are in the tournament, when the next breaks and blinds are.


 Stakes - You can play cash games with Micro stakes this is the lowet stakes possible and good for players starting up trying to get a fel of what it is like playing for money.