Full Tilt Poker Review (8.12/10)
Full Tilt Poker is considered as one of the most popular poker rooms available in the online world due to its better player traffic compared to other average poker sites. If you are a good poker enthusiast, you can find some top names in poker circuit chating and playing at Full Tilt which includes Erik Seidel, Allen Cunningham, Phil Ivey, and Howard Lederer. You can find action at any limit and any table at Full Tilt which is the first poker room offering high stakes of action. Full Tilt has great features and exciting graphics supported by their unique software interfaces that is rare to find in any other online poker room.
You can use Bonus Extra, the Poker referral code of Full Tilt for getting $600 bonus at 100% game. You can make use of the 100% match sign up bonus offered by Full Tilt Poker only when you are a new player. For accumulating the bonus, you have to sign up for real money account and pay a deposit and therafter earn points by playing tournaments and ring games and /or sit ‘n’ go, with each point valuing $.06 worth of bonus. For instance, if you deposit $100 and earn 167 points you will receive $10 bonus in your account as deposit. Similarly a deposit of $600 will earn you 334 points with an automatic deposit of $20. You can collect the entire possible bonus within a period of 120 days. Apart from this, you can also avail points for accumulated deposit bonus.
You can accumulate more player loyalty points by Poker’s points system by paying the tournament fees and also for all raked cash games. You can find a wide range of online poker games at Full Tilt Poker such as Omaha Hi-Lo, Omaha, 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo, 7 Card Stud, Texas Hold’Em., HOSE, HORSE, Razz and HA (Hold’em, Omaha Hi). Some games come with Pot Limit, No Limit and Fixed Limit as their features. You can also find mixed games, Razz and Stud in Fixed Limit and HA game is on Pot Limit. You can play the ring games in short handed, full table varieties, heads up with tournaments in multi-table and sit’n’go.
The reported peak hour traffic as on July, 2007 is 55000 on tournaments and averaged at 8700 for cash games. So, Full Tilt’s traffic is more than other average online poker games. You also have the advantage of excellent customer service with lightning responses through email support option. The cartoon style avatars make the game more appealing. Hand histories can be saved on the hard drive for afterward viewing. The customizable features make the gameplay reliable and fast. Full Tilt boasts of highly functional and outstanding graphics and the players can find world’s skilled and expert poker players through its “Pro Chat” feature which makes the game more appealing. Multi-table play can support 8 tables simultaneously with an excellent mini-view function and a novice “time bank” feature is also available.
Alan Betson
If there is anything Alan Betson is renowned besides the poker skills, then it is surely his wits. Padraig Parkinson, the writer for the Europe’s Card Player Magazine, has said that Alan Betson “has probably mentioned five of 10 funniest things that I’ve ever heard of at the poker table.” In a Card Player article, Parkinson recounts the incident where Alan Betson matched his wits with some taxi driver in the Las Vegas… the game which ended in very close draw.
Popularity of Betson’s anecdotes is proved by the amount of demand they are in. Remarkably, Alan Betson is even known for being the funniest even when things are in a bleaking state, particular at poker table.
Gray Scott, fourth in the WSOP (World Series of Poker) Main Event in the year 2002, has told in one interview with Dave Lloyd of Sportinglife that if he has to host a liveliest poker game ever known to man, then he would invite Betson for one-liners. He would even invite “Kevin O’Connell to purchase the drink, Duthie John to offer the TV coverage, Sexton Mike as American, Vinson for cockney humor, the Devilfish to throw this party but he is not permitted to take a guitar, and May Jesse to write this all down!”
While his wit turns him into a smashing entertainer, the poker skills make Betson the vicious opponent. In the year 2001, this Irish-born Betson gained the title of “The champion of the European Texas Hold’em for the year 2001″ by smashing a championship event at EFOP (Euro Finals of Poker) at Aviation Club in the Paris. He was even awarded a grand prize of $140,000.
Recently, in the November 2005, Alan Betson was placed second in the No-Limit Hold’em €800 event at Holland Casino in the Amsterdam. Betson happened to beat the other 840 players at this event, but was defeated at top spot by a Lebanese talent Khodr Abdul. It seemed like the win for Alan Betson at first: first he had Khodr with J8 vs KJ, but an eight in the show has turned him down. Nonetheless, this finish gave a big money for Alan Betson, which he took €71,680 home.
Earlier, in the March 2005, Alan Betson placed second also in the No Limit Hold’em €2,000 event of Irish Open. This affair was hosted in the Citywest Hotel, Dublin. That was an yet another win, as Betson won with €71,500.
Id doesn’t matter what kind of a poker event, Alan Betson always will be the man of that hour: a smart guy with quips, and player to watch.