
Full Tilt
Sunday, March 13 03:58:33 AM 2005
I am having a great time at this site that I'm playing now- Full Tilt. I first tried to play PokerRoom, since they offered a 50% deposit bonus up to $300. However, when I went to deposit $600 from my firepay account, it said I could only deposit $250 a week, nullifying my ability to go for the full $300 bonus. The customer service people sucked, hanging up on me twice and not answering my e-mail to their support team.
Anyways, I therefore tried Full Tilt. I was surprised to find out that instead of offering a 50% bonus up to $600, they were offering a 100% bonus up to $600! I joined the site and deposited $600. One thing about the site- they lie their asses off about the bonus- they say you can clear 20 bucks after playing for 2 hours, but its more like 20 bucks every 5 hours. Nonetheless, the bonus is unheard of, and I will be spending the next few months there.
I've already cleared $40 of the bonus, and am about even after playing for a few days. The most exciting part of the site is that it's run by pros. Clonie Gowen, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Erik Seidel, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, and Phil Gordon all play there fairly regularly. While you can't normally play with them (most of them, especially Ivey play between 30/60 and 100/200), they occasionally play at the lower limits for fun. Just yesterday I played a $5 omaha hi/lo tournament and was seated almost the entire time with Erik Seidel.
Seidel is a WSOP multiple winner, and you may not recognize the name, but I guarantee you've seen the face. If you've seen the movie Rounders, there's a scene where Matt Damon is watching an old World Series of Poker tape with Johnny Chan. Johnny Chan flops the nut straight, "and has the patience to wait it through to the river....Johnny fucking Chan". Well, the man who you see in that scene, the man who Chan beats, is Erik Seidel. I got to talk to him and play with him, and nearly busted him (I had him all in after the turn, and he caught the winning card on the river). The only criticism of this site is that there are not many people, and it can be hard to find a game if you want to play very early or very late.
Source: Ben's Poker Blog
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