Archive for April, 2010

Free poker at Full Tilt

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

One of the poker rooms offering a really good freeroll prize at the moment is Full Tilt Poker. It actually is undeniably the best offer out there. Most poker rooms will offer freeroll prizes ranging from $25-150. Sportsbook poker offers a freeroll prize of $500. However, they only have 1 freeroll tournament each week.

While most poker rooms will offer a freeroll prize of less that $50, Full Tilt Poker offers freeroll prizes of $100 and they hold their tournaments every couple of hours unlike Sportsbook. Full Tilt Poker further has Sit and Go freeroll tournaments. These tournaments are most suitable for people who intend to play for a while and then go away and come back later to continue their game. Ideally, freeroll tournaments go on for hours on end until the game is over. Sit and Go tournaments enable players to relax and indulge in other things and return later and Full Tilt Poker offers this. Furthermore, their Sit and Go games actually have a higher freeroll prize as compared to the ordinary freeroll games. They also have an offer for every new incoming players of a $12,000 freeroll prize in their private WSOP freeroll tournaments. Such tournaments are usually only available to Full Tilt Poker members and as such is a desirable offer for new players. The WSOP freeroll tournaments go on for longer and have many players as compared to the smaller freeroll tournaments. This justifies their much higher freeroll prize. Full Tilt Poker requirements for people to be included in freeroll tournaments are very minimal. Just register and be a member.

Unlike other poker rooms, Full Tilt Poker does not require one to have played a certain number of raked hands before getting the opportunity to play in their freeroll tournaments. It’s completely free. With the high traffic that Full Tilt Poker receives, players are glad to comment that at one time or another, they do get a chance to play a freeroll tournament. This is because this poker room has a variety of freeroll tournaments every couple of hours. Other sites like Sportsbook will offer their freeroll tournament only once a week which lock out many people out of the tournament simply because the rooms get filled up very quickly. The fact that Full Tilt Poker has freeroll games running every couple of hours with very high freeroll prizes also attracts people from different time zones. These tournaments will be available during the day and at night thus enabling people from different regions of the world to choose an appropriate time for them to indulge in the game. The online freeroll tournament schedule posted by Full Tilt Poker makes it much easier for players to plan a time and choice of tournament easily and conveniently. One can therefore choose the poker game of choice, the time to play and the freeroll prize which best satisfies them. The freeroll prizes offered by Full Tilt Poker on their freeroll tournaments are way better than those offered by other poker rooms.

Titan Poker

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Titan Poker is a popular poker site which attracts very high numbers of players. The traffic at this site is incredible. With an average of 50,000 players logged during peak hours and 10,000 people in cash tables during the same time, it definitely has an impressive traffic flow. It is the largest poker site on the iPoker network and at any one time offers more than 2,500 tables.

This poker site is currently running advertising campaigns to increase its publicity and in the process offering great promotions, jackpot tournaments and bonuses to both current and new members in a bid to woo them to join the site. The 20 or more number of other sites in the iPoker network boost the traffic at Titan Poker considerably.

They have a brilliant software which players keep on commending because of its ease of use and also because it is very fast with convenient options. Some of the card games offered at Titan poker include Texas hold ‘em, Omaha hi, 7 card stud and 5 card stud. They also have freeroll tournaments for new members, VIP games for current members and satellite tournaments. Freeroll tournaments are very safe tournaments which are financial risk-free and are most appropriate for new members who are trying out their luck at poker or rather who are just starting to play the game. The prizes that are offered in freeroll tournaments are however real money and can be redeemed after meeting certain criteria. Some poker sites expect the members to get a certain number of FPPs before redeeming the prizes or play a certain number of raked hands.

The bankroll however takes a long time to build up through playing freeroll tournaments. Their guaranteed tournaments which bring with them very high prizes in real money, such as their Friday tournament which gives away $150,000 in prizes only ask for a buy-in of $75 + $7.50. Their Sit and Go tournament is also suitable for players who have other things to do and offers a much larger prize of $50,000 as compared to smaller tournaments. They also have Maui and Rio progressive jackpots with a prize tag of $15,000 and $25,000 respectively. Titan Poker offers a VIP club whose sole purpose is to reward loyal players. Players can work their way up from a bronze status until the ultimate top status which is the diamond status. Titan Poker awards points depending on the number of raked hands a player has or also depending on the number of paid tournaments the player has participated in.

Members in the VIP club who have a certain number of points are allowed to claim bonuses or collect merchandise as per the promotions are announced. The customer service in this site entails both email and telephone support which is not common in many websites. Due to the high traffic at poker sites, they opt to use only email in order to reduce costs and also the hustle of receiving very many calls at a go.