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FTOPS XIV Satellite Challenge: Win Free Seats In 24 Of 25 Events

With FTOPS XIV right around the corner that means another Full Tilt Online Poker Series Satellite Challenge is already underway. Like in past series’, the FTOPS XIV Satellite Challenge is an opportunity to win as many entries into FTOPS XIV events as you possibly can.

You can even continue to compete in satellite challenges for the same FTOPS XIV event you’ve already won a seat into. How it works is like this: win a free seat in any FTOPS XIV event via a Satellite Challenge and FullTilt will automatically award you that seat. Win again in a satellite challenge for the same event and FullTilt will credit your account with the Tournament Dollars (T$) equivalent to the buy-in for that event.

As an added bonus, the player who wins the most FTOPS XIV event entries through the Satellite Challenge will also win two additional buy-ins to FTOPS XIV events. The finisher with the second highest number of FTOPS XIV entries won in the Satellite Challenge will receive the Tournament Dollars equivalent to one free buy-in to an FTOPS XIV event.

Unlike most other online poker satellites for tournament series’, Full Tilt Poker is awarding free seats into 24 of the 25 FTOPS XIV events, the only one not included being Event #22, the two-day event. Winning at least 2 satellite entries into the same FTOPS XIV event will land you on that event’s Satellite Challenge Leader Board.

The FTOPS XIV Satellite Challenge is running through and continues through to the end of FTOPS XIV on November 15.  To get in on the action visit Full Tilt Poker.

Spotlight On Full Tilt High Rollers & High Stakes Action

All we seem to hear about as far as the high stakes tables at FullTilt are concerned is the ever-grueling dual duels between Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius. But surely that’s not all the action in Full Tilt’s high rollers’ corner. So what else been going on at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker lately?

Well after a bit of a dry spell last week, the action there is actually better than ever, with a new high roller making his presence on the scene in Isildur1. Playing the $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha tables, the player bounced back from a half-million dollar losing streak over about 4,000 hands to win $400,000 off of Haseem Qureshi, a Full Tilt Pro.

Also playing for those $100,000 plus pots are the likes of Brian Townsend, Taylor Caby, David Benefield, Brian Hastings, and Cole South.

And seeming to be more attracted to playing against Full Tilt Pros than necessarily competing at any particular level are familiar names (or usernames, rather) like Urindanger, Ziigmund, OMGClayAiken, and David Oppenheim.

And by the way, if you haven’t heard this wild story – regular Full Tilt high-stakes player Guy Laliberte is blasting off into space…literally. After coming from homelessness as a young man to grow up and found the Cirque du Soleil, the billionaire from Canada has reportedly lost over $17 million on Full Tilt Poker, but says he has no plans on giving up the game because he enjoys it so. Better for all you sharks out there. But you do have to wait for his feet to touch the ground again. We doubt there’s Full Tilt Poker at the International Space Station – but we could be wrong.

FTOPS XIV Starts November 4, Satellites Now

Can you believe it? The next Full Tilt Online Poker Series is already upon us! It seems like the dust from the 13th FTOPS is just settling and already players are whetting their chops for FTOPS XIV, which kicks off in less than two weeks now.

At stake is $16 million in prize money, spread across 25 events. As usual, direct buy-ins into FTOPS XIV events range in cost from $220 to $535, that last amount being once again the direct buy-in for the FTOPS XIV Main Event. But also as usual, Full Tilt Poker is running satellite tournaments now up through game day for buy-ins as little as 50 FTPs (Full Tilt Points) or $0.50.

Of the 25 events in the 14th Full Tilt Online Poker Series are 6 events with guaranteed total prize pools of $1 million or more, and bonus prizes distributed to the winners too including a limited edition FullTilt jacket, a custom-made player avatar for use on Full Tilt Poker real money cash ring game tables and tournaments (bragging rights included), and a guaranteed few hundred thousand smackers to the first placers.

Also returning in FTOPS XIV is the ever-popular two-day event, this time with a total guaranteed prize pool of $2 million. Stay tuned to the Full Tilt Poker Blog for all the updates and satellites for the FTOPS tournament.

All the action in the FTOPS XIV kicks off on November 4 with a 6-max $216 No Limit Holdem event for a guaranteed $1 million total prize pool. Also part of the fifteenth FTOPS is the return of the Bouncebackability freeroll, this time on November 21, an exclusive freeroll open only to the final player eliminated before the money in each of the 25 FTOPS XIV events  – the top prize being a ticket into the FTOPS XV main event, a $2.5 million guaranteed tournament.

Run It Twice & Cashout Tournaments: New Ways To Win Big With Less Money

Full Tilt Poker is continuing to come up with ways to adjust to the down economy when people’s hunger to win money at online poker is at a peak, but their bankroll is hurting. That was the logic behind the creation of the Mini-FTOPS, for example – the low buy-in counterpart to the Full Tilt Online Poker Series. Then there was deal-making at tournament final tables (otherwise known as chopping the pot).

Well now Full Tilt has issued its latest innovations for the low-budget online poker player in the way of two new features (one for tournament players and one for ring game players) that gives online poker players a better chance of cashing (that is walking away from the table with money).

There’s Run It Twice, something seen on TV on NBC’s Face the Ace and Poker After Dark, in which two cash game players, if the last two in a hand now heads-up and all-in, can agree post-flop to have the dealer deal out two Turns and two River cards, giving the hand two outcomes and each competitor two chances to win half the pot.

Then there’s Cashout Tournaments in which a tournament player can choose to leave a tournament early and take their current winnings with them, leaving all the bigger prizes open for the remaining players to compete for.

These two features – Run It Twice and Cashout Tournaments – are a part of the new Full Tilt Poker software update, now available. Other exciting new features are also included.

Phil Ivey Wins $1.1 Million In One Night At Full Tilt High Stakes HORSE Tables

As Full Tilt Poker and players are gearing up for the next Full Tilt Online Poker series with the FTOPS XIV Warm-Up, poker legend Phil Ivey is gearing up for the November 7 final table of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event with a little warming up of his own. And at his last Wednesday, October 7 warm-up he was downright hot! To the temperature of $1.1 million dollars hot.

That’s right, Phil Ivey continued to prove why he’s Phil Ivey by racking up a $1.1 million dollar night at Full Tilt Poker on Monday. Interestingly enough, though, he was there playing No Limit Holdem, as he will be in the 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table. He wasn’t even playing high-stakes Pot Limit Omaha like he often does at the site (though it was most definitely high-stakes).

Instead he was playing at Full Tilt’s Fixed Limit HORSE tables.

Among those falling to Phil Ivey’s prowess (with the amount of the biggest contributors’ losses to Ivey on his big night noted in parentheses) were the likes of Patrick Antonius, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond ($444,000), Chau Giang ($289,000), Tom “durrrr” Dwan ($343,000), David Oppenheim ($245,000), Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, and Cole South.

Phil Ivey is one of Full Tilt Poker’s official Team FullTilt Pros and can often be seen at the high-roller cash ring game tables at Full Tilt Poker, especially in the games of Pot Limit Omaha, Fixed Limit H.O.R.S.E, and the newest addition to Full Tilt Poker’s cash game lineup, the increasingly popular 7-Game Mix.

FTOPS XIV Warm-Up $250K Guaranteed

Now that the schedule is officially out for the 14th Full Tilt Online Poker Series, the site thought it would be a good idea to help its members warm-up for the big series this time around. How they’re doing that is with a promotion aptly named the FTOPS XIV Warm-Up, and it’s an opportunity to whet your chops for FTOPS XIV while at the same time staking your claim on a piece of $250,000 guaranteed.

Even more enticing, besides winning the largest share of that $250,000, the winner of the FTOPS XIV Warm-Up will also win a free seat worth $535 in the FTOPS XIV Main Event. The action begins Sunday, November 1 at 3:05 pm ET when the $250K FTOPS XIV Warm-Up tournament kicks off.

To enter, you can either buy-in directly for just $5 + $0.50 or you can qualify via online satellite for as little as just $0.50 or 50 Full Tilt Points (FTPs). The player pool for the FTOPS XIV Warm Up is going to be capped at 50,000 entrants, so don’t delay if you want to play – claim your seat now before they’re all gone.

Full Tilt Poker wants to remind all players that the FTOPS XIV Warm-Up is not considered an official Full Tilt Online Poker Series event, and therefore performance in this tournament does not count towards any FTOPS XIV leaderboards or challenges.

To register for the FTOPS XIV Warm-Up, just go to the FullTilt tournament lobby; Browse Real Money Tab: FTOPS, Holdem, No Limit, Low. That’ll take you where you need to go to get on into the FTOPS XIV Warm-Up $250K Guarantee.

Get a Piece of Ivey With New Full Tilt Promotion

Starting tomorrow, October 7, 2009, Full Tilt Poker is running a new promotion it calls the Piece of Ivey, named obviously for Full Tilt Poker pro, 2009 November Niner, and one of the most successful poker players in the world, Phil Ivey.

Up for grabs? A share of Phil Ivey’s winnings at the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table. To be precise: 6% of his winnings plus an added $150,000 by Full Tilt.

How it works is like this: Players earn tickets by playing at cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker. The tickets are then entered into a raffle drawing. Actually 3 raffle drawings.

There’s a “5% of Ivey” drawing in which 9 players earn a seat in an exclusive Sit & Go, with the total prize pool at stake equal to 5% of Phil’s WSOP Main Event take. That drawing will occur at 10 pm ET on Friday, November 6 with the special Sit & Go taking place the next day, November 7, at 2 pm ET.

There’s a “1% of Ivey” drawing in which players vie for seats in an exclusive $50,000 freeroll tournament, the winner of which will get, besides largest share of the pot, an addition 1% of Ivey’s 2009 WSOP Main Event take. The drawing for the $50K Freeroll is November 6 at 10 pm ET and the tournament is November 7 at 2 pm.

Finally, there are cash prize drawing daily, with over 600 cash prizes awarded every day throughout the Piece of Ivey promo. These “Daily Cash Draws” will happen every morning at 6 am ET. In all, $150,000 will be given away this way.

Schedule for FTOPS XIV Out Now

The schedule for the next Full Tilt Online Poker series, FTOPS XIV, is now out. This latest incarnation of the most popular tournament series from one of the most popular online poker rooms will take place from November 4 to November 15. It has a total $16 million guaranteed prize pool.

As in the past, FTOPS XIV will be made up of 25 events, including the ever-popular $2,500 Two-day event (Event #22) happening Saturday, November 14 and boasting a $2 million prize pool. The main event, Event #25, happens on the following day, Sunday, November 15, and for its $535 buy-in has a $2.5 million guarantee.

In all at the 14th FTOPS, there are 6 events that have a guaranteed prize pool of at least $1 million, including the opening event, Event #1, on Wednesday, November 4, a $216 Six-Max event with a $1 million prize pool and Event #12, the high-roller’s $1060 Six-Max event on Monday, November 9 with a $1.5 million guarantee.

Besides NL Holdem, the FTOPS XIV also shows events in Pot Limit Omaha, Pot Limit Omaha 8 or Better, Razz, HORSE, and Limit Holdem. Besides regular shootouts and knockouts and the previously mentioned six-max events, there are also turbo, rebuy, and add-on events.

As always, satellites are running daily for the FTOPS XIV, as of now. A new addition to the satellite schedule this time around is the FTOPS XIV Warm-Up, which has a $5.50 buy-in and awards free seats in the November 15, $2.5 million guaranteed main event. Super Satellites into the FTOPS XIV Warm-Up are also going on for only $0.50 of 50 Full Tilt Points.

Low-Budget Real Money Poker: Micro-Stakes and Low Limits at FullTilt

At Full Tilt Poker it doesn’t take a million dollars to win a million dollars. Or to put it another way, you don’t have to start out with a huge bankroll in order to 1) enjoy playing online poker for real money, and 2) get build a bigger bankroll. You can simply play at Full Tilt’s micro-stakes tables and low limit games.

Like free poker (for “play money”, in other words) FullTilt’s micro-stakes and low limit tables help poker novices to learn the game, develop their skills, and build some confidence. And like at the training sites, Full Tilt Poker provides you with a bunch a great resources for analyzing your game, helping you become aware of your playing patterns, and discover weaknesses in your playing.

But unlike at the poker training sites, these low limit and micro stakes tables let you play for real money.

Many Full Tilt Poker players swear by the Micro-Stakes and Low Limit tables, even after they’ve developed their poker chops. At the Full Tilt Poker lobby you can filter for these games by clicking the Micro checkbox. Do that and you’ll find micro-stakes Sit & Gos running around the clock for as little as $1 + $0.25; No Limit and Pot Limit Holdem with stakes as low as $0.01/$0.02 and $0.02/$0.05 with a minimum of only 40-cents required to sit in; Multi-table tournaments for a buy-in as low as a dime; and many more. Including micro-stakes and low-limit Omaha.

Unlike with starting a business, you do not need a bunch of start-up capital to get in on the fun, excitement, and rewards of playing online poker at FullTilt.