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#714 – Piled up on the News Desk, Part I – It’s World’s Series Season at Full Tilt
It has now been a couple weeks since Full Tilt started offering World Series seats, both for the Main Event and for other events. If your main goal in online poker is to qualify for the World Series, you could literally spend 24 hours a day chasing the dream on Full Tilt and still not be able to take advantage of all the chances.
First, almost every day there is a Main Event Qualifier from $200+$16 to $1,000+$60 (There are almost nonstop satellites for entries into these qualifiers). Second, there are one or two $200+$16 double-shootouts for $12,000 Main Event packages daily. Third, there are daily Bracelet Race tournaments from $69+$6 to $200+$16. The winners of these daily tournaments receive a $2,000 package toward World Series Entry. Fourth, Full Tilt is giving away at least 50 free seats to the Main Event and qualifiers run around the clock. Fifth, on May 10, Full Tilt is running a qualifier for the $1,000 buy-in World Series Stimulus Special. Full Tilt is guaranteeing at least 80-$2,500-packages. Sixth, Full Tilt is running its annual 150-Seat Guarantee tournament on June 21. Seventh, as has been Full Tilt’s policy for the last several years, if you qualify for the Main Event on Full Tilt and win, the site will pay an additional $10 million.
Unfortunately, the start of World Series season has coincided with one of my losing streaks so all it’s meant to me has been that I’ve been losing money faster. Notwithstanding my fattening of the prize pool (or BECAUSE of it), Full Tilt has already given away nearly 100 seats to the Main Event.
March 25th, 2009 at 6:19 am
The idea that this site is rigged is ludicrous. You cite three hands, total, in which you got unlucky. Yes, and? It happens.
The thing that people fail to realize, especially the “Full Tilt is rigged lol” people, is that Full Tilt is a gold mine as it stands. Those with equity in the company are making money hand over fist with a legitimately run site. The rake is, effectively, the most profitable part of the business. To think that a site that has $500/$1000 NLHE and PLO games running on a regular basis cares in the first bit about your $200 is ridiculous.
Likely, you feel cheated because variance has taken some money from you, and you practiced very poor bankroll management. This is something that happens in poker. Please, go to the Full Tilt Academy page and watch Chris Ferguson’s bankroll management video. Or go to twoplustwo.com and go to their forums (hope that mention is kosher on an FTP sponsored page) and read their introductory threads.
FTP is as honest as a poker site comes. There’s no valid, statistically based reason to think anything else.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Well….I have to say that you played on a bad luck day. Everyone has one….if you start to have bad luck…….turn off the computer and play a different day….believe me…there are days in which you can feel that you can play anything and win…..and then there are days in which nothing works out….
March 30th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
You think poker players are the type of people to care who they are associated with as long as they were getting payed out the arsehole? lol… Ask yourself why people get into poker in the first place.