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Two-Day Sit & Go Madness at Full Tilt: $125K Up For Grabs

Enjoy Sit & Go Madness at FullTilt and win a share of over $125,000 – and a chance to play poker alongside some of the game’s greatest star players.

Sit ‘n Go Madness starts tomorrow, December 4, at 4 pm ET, and runs two days, exactly 48 hours, ending Sunday December 6 at 4 pm, so you’d better hurry (thus the “Madness” we assume). The competition is organized around leaderboards for participation in Full Tilt Poker’s Sit & Go tournaments. There are four different levels of participation: $1 – $2 stakes, $5 – $11 stakes, $20 – $33 stakes, and $50 – $110 stakes. So there’s a comfortable playing level for every player.

The Sit & Go Madness promotional period will be broken up into two 24-hour blocks, giving players twice as many opportunities to win big. Plus, the top 7 players in each 2-hour block of time will also get a cash prize, from $1 to $500.

An Overall Leaderboard is also being run for the entire 2-day period, with the top finisher in each group squaring off in a $5,000 Freeroll to be held on Saturday, December 12. There’s also a $50,000 Freeroll on that same day for everyone who has won at least two Sit & Go’s during the 2-day period.

Finally, there’s also a Sit & Go Madness Raffle. To win a ticket you just have to cash in one of these green-labeled Sit & Go Madness events (that is finish in the top 3 in a 9-player tourney or in the top 2 in a 6-player tourney). Over 1,000 prize are up for grabs including an FTP Deluxe Home Game Package including a poker table and stylish chip set.

FullTilt Holiday Hundred Bonus For New & Existing Players

In celebration of the coming holiday season, Full Tilt Poker is offering a brand new bonus called the Holiday Hundred. Just as it sounds, the Full Tilt Poker Holiday Hundred Bonus is a $100 bonus available to all new and existing players.

To be eligible for the Holiday Hundred Bonus you must either be claiming or clearing your first deposit bonus or other active bonus at Full Tilt Poker. Then you must finish clearing it by the deadline.

To be clearer:

• If you’ve never made a deposit into a Full Tilt Poker real money account: Make your first deposit and finish clearing your 100% first deposit bonus by one-minute-to-midnight on November 30
• If you have an active bonus going that you have not finished clearing: Clear it fully by the same above-mentioned date and time

Fulfill either of these qualifications and you’ll get a $100 bonus into your account on December 6 at 1-minute to midnight.

That leaves one last group of eligible players, and either you’ve met that requirement or you haven’t, because it’s a retroactive deadline. These are for any Full Tilt members who have cleared an active bonus by November 15 at 6:30 pm ET. Those players will automatically have the $100 Holiday Hundred bonus deposited into their FullTilt account at a minute before midnight December 6.

It’s really nice (and all too rare) for a site to be giving everybody a chance to win a cash bonus, not just new players. And with holiday gift-buying season well-underway, it’s also not a moment to soon.

FTOPS XIV Starts Today

Today was the start of the 14th Full Tilt Online Poker Series. Just like before, the FTOPS XIV is made of 25 poker events all leading up to the main event on November 14. That’s 10 days and $16 million up for grabs (the main event being worth $2.5 million alone).

As FullTilt’s flagship tournament series online now, they’re coming up with every way possible to make it more rewarding for players. One of the first ways they did that, several series ago, was with the Mini-FTOPS, this time coming up December 6 through 20 with a total guaranteed prize pool of $4 million. The total guaranteed prize pool for the regular FTOPS XIV running now is $16 million.

In addition to these two series (50 events in total, if you’re counting) there are also a series of FTOPS Challenges offering free FTOPS and other tournament entries as well as big cash prizes, all the way up to a possible million. There’s a Satellite Seat Challenge, Hold’em Challenge, Survivor Challenge, Double-Up Challenge, Zero to Hero Challenge, and Million Dollar Challenge.

There’s also an FTOPS XIV Leaderboard with its own sorts of rewards for the players proving the highest levels of excellence across all FTOPS events.

Totay’s starting event,FTOPS XIV Event #1, is a $216 6-handed No Limit Holdem event with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. Half-a-dozen events in this series have million dollar plus prize pools. And of course, the satellite qualifiers into the FTOPS XIV events are going on now.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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