FullTiltPoker.net, one of the internet’s premier poker sites, has just announced its fourteenth online poker series.  This series has serious payouts for the winning players as well as a number of different tournaments that different players can take advantage of.  This series begins November 4th and has a guaranteed payout of sixteen million dollars across the twenty five separate events that make up the series.

The biggest single payout is the Main event; paying out two and a half million dollars.  From there, the next biggest payout is the two-day event with 2 million dollars of prize money.  This event is unique in a couple ways.  First of all, the buy in is fairly high for an internet tournament at two thousand, two hundred and sixty dollars.  This is then turned into 6000 chips to be used for play.  The structure of the tournament is also unique; with thirty minute ante periods and two days of play before the winner is selected.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Tournament Series also offers a number of a prizes on top of the cash prizes.  For the people that make it to final round tables, they get a Full Tilt jacket.  Anyone that wins an event gets a jacket, as well as a gold jersey.  On top of this, their site avatar gets a golden jersey as well.  Full Tilt has avatars so that each person has a character on the site and only a select few get the distinction of the golden jersey.  For the person that is the top player at the end of the series, they will get a fully customized Avatar, as well as entries into all of the next series tournaments, except the two-day tournament.

Full Tilt also offers mini entries.  This lets someone with a small budget enter the tournament for a much smaller entry fee.  The buy in is one-tenth and the payouts are similar.

FullTiltPoker.net has recently updated their software for 2009 and are looking to really change how poker room lobby’s work.

They have three types of lobby’s for players to choose from:

Classic – This is what most poker players are familiar with and is a simple list of tabs for the different poker games and then a selection of the poker limits for each game as well as different rule variations (NL, Limit, Pot Limit).

Basic – This is a way to find a poker game by selecting  your playing preference. Firs the currency: play money or real money, then players choose the type of game either: ring game, sit and go or tournament. They then narrow it down by game, limit, stakes and finally the last option is Play. The choices at play: Play FullRing Now (9 players), 6 players, Observe table or browse tables..which is a combination of the new basic and classic lobby which is now called…standard.

Standard – Is a combination of classic and basic with filters at the top and the full list of games below. Which in my opinion is the best way to go and I wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes the default for most players. It is very clean and allows players to set favorites on their favorite filters making it that much easier to find your favorite fulltiltpoker.net real money games.
They have also recently updated the full tilt poker replayer. It is more of a replay where you can step through the hand instead of the basic text and who won the hand image.

Phil Ivey part of Team Full Tilt Poker Net is currently deep in the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Phil Ivey has lasted a huge field of poker professionals and amateur players and is currently one of 64 players left. There were 6,494 players registered for the tournament and first prize will take home a cool $8.5 million dollars.

Phil Ivey has had an impressive 2009 WSOP with 2 bracelets, 5 cashes and winning $356,994. If Phil Ivey can make the final table he will be able to add at least a million dollars to his 2009 WSOP winnings.

Other notables still in the 2009 WSOP main event are Antonio Esfandiari and Dennis Phillips who finished 3rd last year in the Main Event.

Full Tilt Poker has created a new promotion for players to use their FullTilt Points to enter special tournaments. The first tournament that they have announced for the promotion is the FTP $250K Guarantee. It costs 5,000 Full Tilt Points and like you would imagine from the tournament title it will have a $250,000 US dollars prize pool.

The tournament will be played on Sunday the 15th or if it doesn’t land on the day the first Sunday after it. Their is an upcoming tourament on Sunday, June 21st at 14:15ET.

If you don’t have 5,000 points then you still have a chance to qualify for the tournament. Through out the month full tilt will be running qualifiers for players to enter satellite tournaments for 50 points.

Full Tilt Poker will be running the FTOPS XII poker series starting May 6, 2009.  Full Tilt Poker has guaranteed that the FTOPS will have $18 million dollars in prize pool money to be spread over 25 events.

Full Tilt Poker has each event hosted by a Full Tilt Poker Pro, the first one will be hosted by Erick Lindgren and will have a guarantee of $1 million dollars and the format will be a $200+$16 NL hold-em 6-max event. It will be played on Wednesday, May 6th at 21:00 ET.

Full Tilt will finish the FTOPS with a $500+$35 No Limit Hold-em event that will have a monster prize pool of $2.5 million dollars and will be hosted by Jennifer Harman.

MiniFTOPS XII

They have also announced the first of a much smaller event called the:  MiniFTOPS XII. The events will coincide with the larger events but will have 1/10 the buy-in and will have over $2 million dollars in a guaranteed money. In addition to the prize money for each tournament, they will be giving away a MiniFTOPS jacket for players that make the final table and winners of each event will also be given a silver MiniFTOPS jersey.

FTOPS XII Satellites and Challenges

Full Tilt is currently running satellites now for the FTOPS XII as well as the miniFTOPS, Log-in now to FullTiltPoker to win your seat into any of the 25 events now.

Full Tilt has a series of challenges for players looking to play multiple events. The largest of the challenges is a million dollar challenge for a plyer to make the money in at least 17 FTOPS events. This is also the case with the MiniFTOPS but the winner of that will receive $100k grand prize.

Full Tilt Poker currently has a new promotion called Friday Night Fights. Tonight, the main event fight is between Eli Elezra against Chau Giang. The heads up poker match will be played at 21:00 ET.

An hour before at 20:05 ET there will be two sweat events that are $5k events with an entry fee of $10+$1. Players can choose who they think will win between Elezra and Giang and play in their respective sweat event. If you play in the winners event the winner of the sweat tournament will be given a free entery to the Fright Night Fight Knockout which is a $500+$35 dollar buy-in.

The Fight Night Fight Knockout will be played at 21:00 ET and have a guaranteed prize pool of $75k with an entry fee of $500+$35. Players can register for the event without having to play the sweat event.

Full Tilt Poker is one of the best poker sites and is currently the second largest online poker site.

Since beginning his online poker career as a meer teen at the age of 17, Tom “durrrr” Dwan has showed age holds no limit on earnings in the online poker realm. Now 22, Dwan has dominated the world of online poker at Full Tilt Poker. With $5.36 million in earnings at Full Tilt, Tom Dwan is taking on an exciting, new challenge at Full Tilt Poker one of the best us poker sites. Durrrr is currently challenging all online poker players to a “Million Dollar Challenge”. Dwan is offering $1.5 million to anyone that can beat him at 50,000 heads-up hands of poker online.

There are several preconditions to the Durrrr’s Million Dollar Challenge:

1. The competitor owes Dwan $500,000 in the event of his success.
2. Only No Limit Hold ‘em and Pot-Limit Omaha are to be played.
3. Game stakes are to be at least $200/$400.
4. Stakes are to remain constant for the entire challenge, once they have been agreed upon.
5. Competitors must consistently have at least 75 big blinds in their stack at a time, otherwise they must reload.

First up to the challenge is heads-up specialist Patrik Antonius. Finland native, Antonius has been a regular on the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour and is currently on “Team Full Tilt”. The two previously battled at the Aussie Millions Cash Game in 2009, where Antonius was victorious. Starting on February 18, 2009, the heads-up pair have so far played 4,178 of the total 50,000 hands, playing for a total of 13 hours and 12 minutes. Currently Durrrr is ahead with $140, 380.00 in winnings and a total of 2,325 hands won.

Poker legend Phil Ivey and high-stakes player David Benyamine are next up to the challenge. Full Tilt Poker has a constant update of the current challenge at their site under promotions. Here you can find the latest stats, high-stakes hands, and tables for the challenge.

FullTiltPoker.org is currently running a new promotion called Take 2. This promotion will be a welcome addition to online poker players that regularly multi table.

From Monday, Jan. 26th thru Sunday, Feb. 1st  full tilt player who play in two ring games at the same time (multi-tabling) will get double the full tilt points!

It is important for players to sign up for the take 2 promotion or you will not get double the points. To register for the promotion go to the cashier (in the full tilt lobby) then My Promotions. You will then see the take 2 section and continue on until you see a button that says “Yes, I would like to participate in Take 2″. After you have completed these steps and seelct the button you will now get double the points when you play this week on full tilt.org!

You will be able to keep track of your points in the Take 2 My Promotions section. Your points will then be credited to your account within 6 hours of playing. This is a great time to start multi-tabling or if you already are a multi-tabler get some more hours in!

See you at the tables.

Full Tilt Poker has just released the schedule for the FTOPS XI. The FUll TIlt Online Poker Series is a popular tournament series that fulltilt has been running for the past couple years. It seems they are getting more frequent and nearly every other month.

The FTOPS XI will consist of 25 events starting on Wednesday, Feburary 4th with a $200+16 NL Hold-em event with a guarnateed prize pool of $1 million dollars. They are guaranteeing $15 million dollars during the FTOPS tournaments.

The main event will be played on Sunday, February 15th and will wrap up the tournament series with a $500+35 buy-in and will have $2.5 million dollars guaranteed.

If you have not deposited at full tilt poker use the full tilt poker referral code: Tilt Planet to receive 100% up to $600 dollars. They are currently running FTOPS XI satellites, so you can qualify today to participate in the biggest online poker tournaments in Feb.

I have always wanted to participate in the FTOPS series but haven’t gotten around to seriously trying to qualify. Hopefully this time with some poker skill and a lot of donkey luck…I will make it in to an event.

Full TIlt Poker Happy Hour is a promotion that they run once a day and various tables through out the poker site. Happy Hour at Full Tilt Poker gives player double (or triple) the fulltilt points just for playing at the specially marked tables. The tables are marked with a smiley face and you will be able to keep track of how many points you have accumulated by going to the cashier and looking under my promotions.

Full Tilt Poker has recently announced that during christmas season players will be able to earn 3x from Dec 21st – Jan 1st. Also on Dec 24, 25, 26, 31 and Jan 1, FullTilt will be offering extended happy hour times. So what are you planning on doing this holiday season? See you at the table!