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FullTiltPoker.com is the home to team Full Tilt with recognizable pros Phil Ivey and Carlos Mortensen to name a few. You have probably heard their slogan about playing, chatting and learning from the pros, and this is true. You will often find pros playing in tournaments and even low limit cash games, and they are often willing to talk to anyone. If you knock out a pro from a tournament you get a $40 bounty and they mail you a shirt saying you knocked out a pro. They have strategy articles written by their pros so you can learn some tips from them as well. The site has a wide array of tournaments in all forms of poker, and their million dollar guaranteed weekly tournament has a very nice payout. The software was designed by the Open SSL project using 256-bit cryptography making the site totally stable and secure. Full Tilt has been steadfast in their efforts to continue to server the United States market and have been rewarded for the efforts by a significant increase in site traffic. Probably one of the top 2 or 3 online poker rooms in the world, they offer good action, good sign up bonuses, and a very nice variety of game options at all times of the day.
Probably because Full Tilt has marketed themselves as the home of the pros many wannabe pros tend to play here. This means that the skill level in general here is better then average and the maniacs are significantly fewer. Tight tables with only a few players seeing the flop is the norm. You will have to adjust to this by picking your spots to play a little more aggressive which in turn will allow you to win some smaller pots uncontested. Overall, you will have a harder time building your bankroll on this site because of the relative skill level of the competition. Their sit and gos have a pretty good structure and their multi table tournaments in the less popular games of pot limit omaha hi/low, pot limit omaha, 7 card stud, and Razz have larger fields then you might expect and therefore have pretty good payout's for buy ins of $6, $11, and $26.