Sit and go madness is back at Full Tilt from January 9th at 4pm EST until 4pm ESt no January 11th.  Earn the most sit and go points in any of the two hour blocks during Sit and go madness to win the cash prizes.  First place in the $1-$2 group is $20, and first place in the $50 to $110 group is $500 every 2 hours.  There are 7 places paid every 2 hours.

The overall leaderboard is also in effect, with the top 2 players from each of the 4 buy-in categories meeting in a $5k 8 player tournament on the 17th of January.  And lets not forget about the raffle.  Every time you win a sit and go during Sit and go madness you earn one raffle ticket towards the more than 1000 prizes being given away in the raffle. 

Just make sure the tournaments are labeled in green and multitable like a madman for your chance at some of this extra cash being given out by Full Tilt.  This is a great promotion for sit’n'go players who are used to multi-tabling.

On December 27th at 3:15pm EST Full Tilt poker is hosting the Holiday $100K.  This is a tournament that gives all players a chance to turn their Full Tilt points into a share of $100K! 

The buy-in for the tournament is 2000 FTP and there will be many satellite tournaments running from now up until the 27th where players can satellite into the event for as little as 50 FTP.  I know this is the path I’m going to try to take, with my FTP total dwindled down after some recent Full Tilt clothing purchases you will possibly be able to find me in a 500 point satellite looking to play in this great value tournament 2 days after Christmas.

Just to add some perspective, a Full Tilt poker hat costs 4000 FTP points, so to play in a $100K guaranteed tournament is only costing about half of a hat.  To me, this is a hard decision, but that’s only because I desperately need a new hat.  But to most people this is an easy decision.  Go for the cash!

On the other hand, there is already 4500 or so entrants, with a max of 7000, so I have a feeling that this tournament will max out soon.  This means if you want to register you should do so very soon.  It also means that the 2000 points are worth roughly $14.  Now this makes the hat vs tournament decision a little bit harder, because $28 for a hat isn’t that bad.

So now I’m back to the question.  Hat or tournament?  Only because I have only 500 FTP I’m choosing satellite into tournament.  If I had 4000 points I would choose hat, but that’s just me.  The choice is yours and if you decide to play in the Holiday $100K at Full Tilt, I wish you good luck!

The Sunday Brawl is a bounty tournament that is played weekly at Full Tilt Poker.  Many Full Tilt pro’s are consistent participants in this bloody tournament.

Targeted: Anyone who wants some good old head hunting fun.
Value: No added value
Chance of big payday: The prize pool is $350K guaranteed.
Type of Promotion: Guaranteed Tournament
Take Advantage: If you are looking for a quality bounty tournament with the chance to knock out some big full tilt pro’s.

Details
The Sunday Brawl is a $350K guaranteed knock-out tournament with a $240 + $16 buy-in that is played every Sunday at 2pm EST at Full Tilt poker.  $200 from your buy-in goes to the prize pool with the other $40 going to the Knockout pool.  Every time you knock a player out of the tournament you earn their $40. 

You can keep track of your knockout totals in the knockout leaderboard located http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/sunday-brawl.  If you run the show and take out the most players in the tournament then you get entry into the next Sunday Brawl for FREE.

The most knockouts ever in a Sunday Brawl was 22.  This has happened twice, with congratulations going out to jman5j23 and jesseja777. 

If $256 is too much for you, which I’m sure is true for a lot of people, you can try to satellite into the tournament.  Full Tilt runs a ton of satellites throughout the week, so you won’t have any trouble finding one.

The $100K Double Deuce is a new tournament that Full Tilt Poker just added to their schedule.

Targeted: Anyone who wants to the chance of a big payday for only $22.
Value: No added value
Chance of big payday: First place is almost $20K
Type of Promotion: Guaranteed Tournament
Take Advantage: If you are looking for a chance at a big cash from a small buy-in this is the tournament for you.

Details
The tournament is a $100000 guaranteed multi-table tournament with a buy-in of only $22, running every Sunday at 4:35pm EST.  This means that Full Tilt needs 5000 players in order to reach the guarantee!  There are many satellites running during the week, from as little as $0.60.

This is also a great chance to play some of your favourite Full Tilt pros for small buy-in as there are already 4 pro’s signed up for this Sunday, including Lee Watkinson.

Rating: 5/5

Targeted: all players
Value: 3 times FT Points at 6pm EST on November 4th
Chance of big payday: None, just 3 times Full Tilt Points
Type of Promotion: Frequent play promotion
Take Advantage: Yes

Details
There will be a happy hour election day special promotion at Full Tilt Poker.  Starting at 6pm EST on November 4th, earn 3 times Full Tilt Points for all games at Full Tilt!

Rating: 4/5

Targeted: Sit’n'go Players - 6 or 9 seaters
Chance of big payday: Depends on the buy-in.  Big payday if you win all 4 of the tournaments and are named the “dominatrix”
Type of Promotion: Not really a promotions, just a new tournament structure at full tilt
Take Advantage?: If you like sitngos and want to try something neat, definitely do it.

Details
- You play the same 8 players on 4 different tables at the same time.
- There is a prize pool for each table + a prize for the overall best of the 4 tables combined.
- You earn 2 points for each player you knockout, 2 points for each player you finish ahead of and a bonus 2 points for winning a table.  Then the players with the top 3 amounts of points win the matrix prize pool.
-If you win each table you get the entire matrix prize pool, as well as each tables 1st place prize.

Overview
Its a neat strategy, which helps the best players, as there is a greater chance of good players being able to make even more money, because the true skill is more likely to come through 4 tables than just 1.  You can also get more reads on your opponents since they are the same in 4 tables at the same time.

Rating: 4/5

Targeted: mid to low level buy-in tournament players and high roller poker fans.
Value: $5000 in added prize pools.
Chance of a big payday: The winner of sweat tournament of the eventual PLO heads up championship, wins the regular prize pool plus $1500, which is a decent size payday for a $10 investment.
Type of Promotion: Money added tournaments, while sweating your favourite pro.
Take Advantage: YES

Details
Full Tilt Poker is back with another 25K heads up championship, this time in Pot Limit Omaha.  Once the event plays down to the semi-finals, leaving 4 players, sweat tournaments will be set up, where you can play in $10 multi-table tournaments of the pro you think will win the heads up championship.  If your pro goes on to win the heads up tournament and you make the final table in the sweat tournament you win a share of the $5000 in added money as shown below:

1st - $1500
2nd - $1000
3rd - $800
4th - $600
5th - $400
6th - $250
7th - $200
8th - $150
9th - $100

You can only play in one of the remaining pro’s sweat tournaments and cheer them on as you work your way to the final table.  The sweat tournaments will start at 3:30pm EST on Sunday, September 7th.

Overview
I played in the Brian Hastings sweat tournament during the 25K NL hold’em heads up championship and have to say it was fun flipping back and forth between my tournament and Brian’s heads up tournament.  David Singer went on to win that heads up championship, and if memory serves me right, the least number of players joined his sweat tournament, which shows he was looked at as the underdog.  If you enjoy watching pro’s play heads up, and are interested in playing a great value tournament, you should definitely play the sweat tournaments.

I love all happy hour promotions. Whether it be cheap drinks at a bar or double and triple your Full Tilt Points. I’d even go as far as to say the latter happy hour is more appealing to me.

At several two-hour intervals throughout the day, Full Tilt hosts various types of happy hours. My favourite is the late night 11pm to 1am anything goes happy hour. This is a normal poker playing time for me anyways, but with the happy hour promotion, I feel like I would be crazy to miss it.

Full Tilt Points can basically be considered rakeback, because they carry monetary value. With your Full Tilt Points you can do anything from buying a stylish Full Tilt cap, winning seats in large tournaments, to even purchasing a Mini Cooper S. To me, these happy hour times just can’t be passed up.

It’s funny, if I’m on Full Tilt playing some NL hold ‘em and then 7pm rolls around, I will immediately get out of all my games, and start playing Limit hold ‘em, because as everyone knows …… Limit hold ‘em happy hour is from 7pm to 9pm daily! Even though it’s not my game of choice, I still feel compelled to take advantage of this promotion.I thoroughly enjoy this Full Tilt promotion and it looks like it will continue right until the end of the year. To me that means a lot of happy hours playing at Full Tilt. So just keep an eye out for those smiley yellow faces at the following times and you too will get hooked on this promotion.
“Early Morning” – 6am to 8am – All ring games and tournaments
“Ring Game” – 3pm to 5pm – All ring games
“Limit Ring Game” – 7pm to 9pm – Limit ring games
“Late Night” – 11pm to 1 am – Anything goes

*These are the mid-week times. The times change slightly on weekends.