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Friday Night Fights Rage On: $75,000 Guaranteed

Sunday isn’t the only day of the week that sees big money returns in Full Tilt Poker tournaments. Look at Fridays – a day of the week many people mistakenly think is devoid of good online poker tournament action. At Full Tilt, Friday night sees Friday Night Fights, a trio of high-stakes poker excitement.

Full Tilt Poker’s Friday Night Fights $500 Knockout: a $75,000 guaranteed tournament. MTT Leaderboard Standings are also on the line in this event, which costs $500 + $35 to get in on – if you haven’t already won your way in through FullTilt’s many satellites starting with buy-ins as low as $1 or through redemption of Full Tilt Points (FTPs).

The Friday Night Fights $500 Knockout is not only a knockout tournament but a Knockout Bounty tournament, in which $100 from every player’s buy-in goes to the bounty on their seat. Players can amass $100 bonuses left and right as they strive for the big win.

Also part of the Friday Night Fights schedule are heads-up battles between Team Full Tilt’s poker pros. Watch all the excitement with a ringside seat as your favorite poker pros take $10K and try to squash their opponent. For even more excitement, you can play in the $5K Sweat Tournaments running every main event Friday at 8:05 pm ET. Pick your favorite pro to win their match by competing in the $5K Sweat in their name. The buy-in is $10 with $2 of it acting as your bounty. If you and your chosen pro both win, you get a free seat in the $500 Knockout Bounty tournament.

Don’t enter both Sweats for two heads-up opponents, though, or you will be disqualified.

Mini-FTOPS XIII A Smashing Success: noitall611 Takes Main Event Title

The 13th Full Tilt Poker Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series has come to an end, with an odd pot chop at the Main Event’s end that saw the winner (noitall611) get the smaller portion of the pot (some $89K) and the runner-up Kanemochi taking the bigger portion (some $94K). Either way, both seemed happy.

As did mordovorotishe, winner of the $400K guaranteed two-day event, for another approximate $94K take. Both this event and the main event were among the many in this Mini-FTOPS XIII to exceed their guarantees due to so many players registering and paying the buy-in.

Meanwhile, the winner of the Leaderboard challenge and the $7,500 prize package that includes entry into every event in FTOPS XIV (exept the 2-day one) was dcoop4506, with 433 chips to runner-up TeamShizzz comparatively mere 363.

The series kicked off with leoelectric winning the first event, a $200K guaranteed event that attracted a massive 16,700 players. That brought the prize pool up to $335K and leoelectric’s share $50,250.

Million Dollar Cash Game Sees Biggest Pot In History

Full Tilt Poker has just made poker history (again)! For the fourth season now, Full Tilt Poker held its Million Dollar Cash Game, with filming just wrapping up in London – and this year it boasted a $1.1 million dollar pot, which turns out to be the biggest cash pot ever in a televised poker game.

All the Team Full Tilt Red Pro favorites were out in spades: Patrik Antonius, Allen Cunningham, Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, and Mike Matusow, as well as rumored future Full Tilt Pro, Tom “durrrr” Dwan – each player contributing at least $100,000 to the pot.

Among the highlights was an enormous pot with Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius (two frequent rivals at the Full Tilt Poker high-stakes cash tables) going at it heads-up. At the end, Antonius’ pocket Kings beat Dwan’s pocket Aces.

It came down to Dwan, Antonius, and Ivey at the end (appropriate not only because Ivey is one of the November Niners await the World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table, but because he too goes up head-to-head with Tom Dwan frequently at the high-stakes cash tables, usually in Pot Limit Omaha).

And the winner of the fourth Full Tilt Poker Million Dollar Cash Game and the $1.1 million largest cash pot in televised poker history? Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, making him an even bigger contender than ever for making Team Full Tilt.

The FullTilt Poker Million Dollar Cash Game will air in the UK in January of 2010 on Sky Sports, with commentary provided by another esteemed Full Tilt pro, Robert Williamson III.

Play November Niner Phil Ivey Heads-Up On TV With Full Tilt Poker’s Face the Ace

Full Tilt Poker is holding around-the-clock freeroll Sit and Go tournaments now as qualifiers into their NBC T.V. show, “Face the Ace”.

Face the Ace is a heads-up live poker tournament broadcast on NBC and hosted by Steve Schirripa of the (now-ended) HBO hit series The Sopranos and co-hosted by former “Deal or No Deal” case model Megan Abrigo.

Full Tilt Poker and NBC’s Face the Ace debuted on August 1 with the following schedule:

• August 1 at 9 pm ET
• August 8 at 9 pm ET
• September 12 at 2 pm ET
• October 31 at 3:30 pm ET
• November 14 at 3 pm ET
• December 12 at 3 pm ET
• January 2, 2010 at 2:30 pm ET

The format of Face the Ace is simple – beat 3 different Full Tilt Poker Red Pros in heads-up competition and win $1 million. Celebrity poker professionals on Team FulllTilt include Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Allen Cunningham, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, and 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table contestant Phil Ivey.

The ongoing FullTilt Face the Ace qualifiers are for entry into a Final Qualifier – the winners, and a guest, from which will be flown to Las Vegas to audition for the show. The prize package includes $500 spending money and luxury accommodations at the 5-star Golden Nugget.

Eager players can skip the initial rounds of competition by buying into one of the two Round 2 qualifiers (September 20 and 27 at 9:15 pm ET) for 100 Full Tilt Points (FTPs) or buying into the Final Qualifier for 2,500 FTPs (November 9 at 9:15 pm ET).

Happy Hours at Full Tilt Mean Triple Points

Happy Hour is always one of the best times of day, and don’t the folks at Full Tilt Poker know it! Because with their Happy Hour promotion, FullTilt Poker are giving away triple the Full Tilt Points (FTPs).

The best part about Full Tilt’s Happy Hour is that it comes at all different times of day. That’s right, there isn’t just one block of time each day for Happy Hour and if you don’t make it, you’re out of luck. Instead, the different Happy Hour tournaments and cash ring game tables all have their own Happy Hours, as indicated in the lobby by little smiley faces next to the qualifying events.

Play in any tournament or at any ring game table during the time indicated by the smiley face next to its listing in the Full Tilt Poker lobby, and get three times the FTPs for every point your earn.

Full Tilt Points can be redeemed for free entries into various online poker tournaments, and satellites and qualifiers for many of the world’s biggest money land-based tournaments, as well as limited edition Full Tilt Poker jerseys, golf clubs, iPods, laptops, and plasma TVs.

Now the Happy Hour promotion has been running for quite a while (since May of 2008) but it does have an expriation date – that being December 31, 2009. So you’d better get started accumulating triple points fast.

Read the Happy Hour schedule carefully, as not all Happy Hours award extra points and bonuses the same way or in the same amounts.

Full Tilt Red Pros Lose Big in August: Including Possible New Red Pro Tom Dwan

To say the August was a particularly harsh month for the Full Tilt Red Pro Team is like saying the weather this summer was particularly mild – a major understatement if ever there was one.

Patrik Antonius, for example, was down $576,000 for the month. Even November Niner Phil Ivey himself lost $1.8 million – hopefully he’s getting all the losing out of his system before the 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table rolls around. The Great Dane, Gus Hansen took the hugest hit though – losing $3 million in one month.

Even Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan was down in August, to the tune of around $400,000. But he’s not a Full Tilt Red Pro Team member, you say. Which brings us to the next part of this story. The player made famous through the self-promotional mastery of his Tom Dwan’s Million Dollar Challenge is the latest big name poker pro who Full Tilt is courting. And all signs are pointing to a likelihood as huge as the FullTilt Red Pros’ losses last month that Tom Dwan will indeed accept Full Tilt’s sponsorship and allow himself to be signed on to the Full Tilt Poker Red Pro Team. In fact, a Facebook page on Phil Ivey that Bluff Magazine gives the thumbs-up to for reputability says it’s already a done deal.

Meanwhile, as we await the announcement, a player who made started some big Full Tilt buzz abuzzing with his shielded identity and his big winning streak is known solely by his (or her) username “martonas”. Well, martonas made Full Tilt news again in August by hopping on the pros’ bandwagon and losing big – $700,000 big.

Mini-FTOPS XIII Starts Today – But Don’t Forget Double Deuce on Sunday

As the Mini-FTOPS XIII gets underway today, we remind you of one of Full Tilt Poker’s other regular promotions, part of its weekly Sunday event schedule in fact, albeit a part that usually gets buried beneath the Big Money Sundays triad of: The Sunday Brawl, The $750K Guarantee, and The Sunday Mulligan. It’s called the $200K Double Deuce.

The difficulty for a lot of would-be Big Money Sundays players is that, if they don’t win their seat in a weekly satellite, they can’t really afford to get in the game because the buy-ins for the Big Money Sundays tournaments are too rich for their blood, with The Sunday Brawl costing $240 + $16, the $750K Guaranteed costing $200 + $16, and The Sunday Mulligan costing $200 + $16.

But how about a chance at a share of $200,000 for only 22 bucks. The Double Deuce runs every Sunday at 4:22 pm ET. Pay $20 + $2 and take your best shot at the grand prize guaranteed each week to be at least $30,000.

You can even get in on the game for much cheaper than that, in fact – with $200K Double Deuce satellites running throughout the week preceding each tournament, with buy-ins as low as 60 cents or 200 FTPs (Full Tilt Points – the currency for Full Tilt Poker’s player rewards program).

But of course, you have all the time in the world to play in these $1 million guaranteed total Big Money Sundays events, but the $3 million guaranteed Mini-FTOPS XIII only lasts for a short time, and as we said, it starts today.

Time To Gear Up For Mini-FTOPS XIII: Satellites Still Running

With the Full Tilt Online Poker Series XIII behind us, the change of months means it’s almost time for its lower-stakes sidekick, the Mini-FTOPS XIII to begin.

The Mini-FTOPS XIII was scheduled differently than Mini-FTOPSs of the past in coming after the main FTOPS XIII instead of concurrently with it, for one reason and one reason only: in order to allow more players to participate in both.

The Mini-FTOPS XIII features a mirror-image of the FTOPS XII events – a total of the same 25 events in all – with 1/10th the buy-in and 1/10th the guaranteed prize pool. It’s a pretty fair deal considering harsh modern times.

The Mini-FTOPS XIII starts September 9 and boasts a $3 million guaranteed prize pool. Some of the highlights of this latest incarnation of the internet’s favorite low-budget poker tournament series include the $266 2-day Event with a $400K guaranteed prize pool, starting on September 19 at 1 pm ET, and the $55 Mini-FTOPS XIII Main Event with a $500K in guaranteed prize pool, on September 20 at 5:00 pm ET.

In addition to the regular prize-money being awarded, Full Tilt is also giving every player to make any Mini-FTOPS XIII event’s final table a limited edition jacket commemorating the event. There’s also a Mini-FTOPS XIII leaderboard, the top finisher getting a prize package valued at approximate $7,500 which includes free entry to every event in FTOPS XIV.

Satellites are still running now at Full Tilt Poker to win a free seat in one of the Mini-FTOPS XIII events, including the main event itself. Buy-ins for these Mini-FTOPS XIII satellites start as low as $0.50 or 50 Full Tilt Points (FTPs).

Take 2 All of September: Double Points Cash Bonuses

After bringing us the “Biggest Bonus Ever” last month, Full Tilt has a new promotion going for the month of September. It’s called Take 2 and it rewards any player who plays at two cash ring game tables at once in any given day with double the FTP poker points earned. So if, hypothetically, a player were to earn 30 points at one table and 50 points at another, they would get 160 Full Tilt Points total (80 FTPs x 2).

In addition, play at two ring game tables simultaneously per day for enough days consecutively this month and earn an extra cash bonus up to $50. Do it daily for 5 days in a row and win $5. From there, the bonus is progressive, so if you do it for 10 days in a row you get $10 more, on top of the $5 bonus you earned at the 5-day benchmark for a total bonus of $15. Do it for 5 days more (for a total of 15 days) and get another $10 bonus (for a total bonus of $25).

And multitable in at least two cash tables at least once a day, daily for 25 days in a row, and win the full $50 maximum bonus.

Full Tilt Points can be redeemed for free Sit & Go buy-ins and tournament entries as well as valuable items like iPods and plasma TVs.

Both bonuses in the Take 2 promotion start now, September 1, and run daily through the end of the month, September 30.

In order to participate in FullTilt’s Take 2 promotion this September, you must go to the Cashier first BEFORE going to My Promotions and opting-in for the Take 2 promotion.