Full Tilt Poker Review

You’ve seen the facts and crunched the figures but that’s only half the story. What’s it like in the heat of battle when the virtual chips are flying across the felt? For those of you looking for reliable software, pleasing aesthetics, excellent player pool and great game choice then Full Tilt ranks right there at the top.

The sites fully stocked arsenal puts them on a par with Pokerstars, whom many regard as the leading poker room in the industry. Railbirds can perch themselves alongside the games best cash players and watch them battle it out for astronomical amounts of cash, mid-limit grinders can multi-table until the fish are bled dry and the noobs can hone their skills in the penny games.

The software Full Tilt RUN is fantastic; it’s well polished, easy on the eye (important during long sessions) and the ability to resize tables makes multi-tabling a breeze.

The ability to customise your surroundings is great. Don’t like staring at the donkey with the clown avatar? Turn them off. Don’t like the regular 3D table view? Switch to racetrack mode. What to change the deck? Simple. The ability to easily change numerous settings serves to make create a much happier playing atmosphere and is more likely to keep the dreaded tilt at bay. For those techno geeks amongst you there is also the ability to go a step further and download various customised table deigns, chip styles and card types.

The recent creation of the Full Tilt Poker Academy is great for those aspiring players looking to really learn from the pros. Having based their marketing campaigns on the “learn, chat and play with the pros” slogan Full Tilt have been slow in really fulfilling the “learn” part.

Their new free academy, however, gives players access to videos made and narrated by famous pros such as Eric Lindgren, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson and Andy Bloch. It also offers podcasts, quizzes, tests and an interactive pro challenge. Although there is no expense spared on the production quality some of the content in the videos is a little ropey and those who’ve subscribed to one of the major independent training sites might be a little disappointed.

For beginners and intermediates though the academy is a major plus point for the site. Indeed, if learning from the Full Tilt pros wasn’t enough then the recent affiliation with Card Runners certainly will be. By earning FTPs you can now get yourself a subscription to one of the leading training sites for free, something no other leading site offers.

Overall Full Tilt is a well run poker room with all the trimmings. Although the customer service department could use a few lessons in response timing the site offers so many great features this slight flaw can be forgiven. Many poker rooms I’ve frequented have a lifeless vibe to them and seem detached from the major happenings in the online poker world.

Full Tilt, though, is the online poker world. It’s where all the best players play and where all the biggest prizes are won and lost. Full Tilt not only offers serious players a world class environment to earn some $$, it gives the casual players a place to feel part of the action like no other room does. In my opinion, whether you’re a shark or a wannabe shark there aren’t many better places to stack up your chips than Full Tilt.