Full Tilt Poker’s newest invention, rush poker, has been a huge hit and to celebrate Full Tilt is giving all current players a free $50 bonus as long as you log into Full Tilt Poker and opt in before 11:59pm on March 14th!  This bonus will immediately be added to your pending bonus account, which you can clear by playing games at Full Tilt Poker.  In fact, rush poker is the perfect way to clear the bonus quickly.

What is Rush Poker?

Rush Poker is the new cash game style that Full Tilt created, which allows players to constantly be in a hand.  Rush Poker is the way poker was meant to be played.

Every player at a certain limit is placed into a giant group that is constantly matching players into hands when they are not involved in a hand.  This means that when you fold your hand you will automatically be moved to a new table with new players and begin a new hand.  Whichever player at the new table has gone the longest without placing a blind becomes the new big blind.

The game is great!  If you aren’t a player at Full Tilt yet, you should definitely sign up using Full Tilt Poker referral code THEFULLTILT and try out the game.  If you complete your normal sign up bonus by March 12th you can even get the extra $50 bonus being given to everyone!

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Full Tilt is definitely moving up in the poker world and this new Rush Poker cash game variation combined with the free $50 to show they care for players could be what they need to catch PokerStars in the online poker industry.  Only time will tell.  Until then I’m going to be clearing my free $50 bonus at Full Tilt Poker!

Full Tilt Poker has announced the schedule for the upcoming FTOPS XIII online poker series.  The action gets underway on August 5th and 25 events with a total guarantee of $16 Million run until the series finishes up on August 16th.  The FTOPS events always bring out a ton of top online poker players who are looking for their cut of the huge cash prizes available in FTOPS events.  The buy-ins for the series range from $100 to $2500 and there are plenty of different poker variations for all types of players to enjoy.

Like the past FTOPS events the winner of each tournament will receive a limited edition FTOPS gold jersey and all players who make the final table will receive an FTOPS jacket.  These are very sought after items and if you win one you will have marked your place in Full Tilt Poker history.  On top of this the top finisher on the FTOP XIII leaderboard will win a custom avatar (worth approximately $1 Million Full Tilts Points) as well as entry into each of the next FTOPS series events excluding the 2 day event.

Full Tilt will also be bringing back the popular FTOPS satellite challenge where you win either tournament dollars equivalent to either 2 buy-ins or 1 buy-in if you are won of the 2 players to win the most satellites into the particular event.  Also, Full Tilt has come out with a new promotion attached to FTOPS, which is the FTOPS challenges.  These challenges will be completed by doing in game tasks.  The prizes for completing the challenges have not yet been determined, but they are sure to be something to do with FTOPS or MiniFTOPS events.

Speaking of MiniFTOPS, from September 9th to 20th Full Tilt will be running the exact same 25 events, but the buy-ins will be 1/10th the size.  This will give players with smaller bankrolls a chance to win the coveted Silver MiniFTOPS jerseys.  MiniFTOPS XIII guarantees $3 Million in cash prizes and is sure to draw some big fields of lower buy-in players.

Overall, both FTOPS XIII and MiniFTOPS XIII will be fun events for all players involved.  If you haven’t signed up to Full Tilt Poker yet, this would be the perfect time.  Use Full Tilt Poker referral code “THEFULLTILT” when signing up in order to receive a Full Tilt Poker bonus of up to $600.

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.

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.

Use full tilt referral code THEFULLTILT when signing up to receive the Full Tilt bonus of up to $600 on your initial deposit.

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 Full Tilt 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: 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 happy hour 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.

If you are signing up as a new player at Full Tilt poker, make sure you use a Full Tilt referral code, to ensure that you receive the best bonus possible.