To be honest, fulltilt poker isn’t a big household name as the likes of 888 (pacific poker) and party poker. However don’t let that put you off. I have found out over the past few weeks that people on lesser known sites tend to play better poker. Fulltilt Poker is a very good all round site and worth a good look.

The download
A friend of mine recommended this site to me a few weeks ago and I thought it would be worth a good look, see what she was raving on about. I opened my firefox browser and headed on over to the fulltilt website (www.fulltiltpoker.com). I always start off with a good old look around the site and I was very impressed with the amount of detail on the site, with help being offered as you would expect. I found the information especially helpful for new poker players; which is something I haven’t found on other sites much.
I decided that as I was writing a review on the poker room, I had best download it. The software download and install was very quick and simple. Within a few moments I had downloaded the required software, set up my account and I was ready to play. I didn’t have to deposit any real money in order to be allowed on the play money tables. So far so good.

The tables
The number of different types of poker on offer is more than I have seen on any other site out there. Not only do they offer the ever popular Texas Holdem, but they also offer: Omaha h/l, Omah Hi, Stud, Stud h/l and Razz. I’ll be honest with you, I have only ever played Texas Holdem, so anyone who plays any other type of poker, please come on over to our forum and tell us more about it. www.ukpokertalk.co.uk
They also offer the usual sit and go tournaments, Multi table and satellite games. As with many other sites they do offer freeroll games, but these require you to build up points by playing in real games; which is good in a way, as you know that the people you will be playing against will have played quite a few real games online and will offer a bit of a challenge.
The look and feel of the tables can be changed quite a bit; main options are to show or not show the aviator, down to the colors being used for the deck of cards. See our screen shots below for a few examples that I put together.

Bonus Amounts
Fulltilt poker room offer a massive $600 100% deposit bonus. This has terms and conditions attached to it as any other site, but this is one of the largest deposit bonus amounts I have seen so far. See their site www.fulltiltpoker.com for full details. They also run guaranteed daily, weekly and monthly tournaments. At the time of doing this review, the monthly prise was $60,000 for first place. This just goes to show how established and how big this site actually is.

My thoughts
When I first logged on to this site I was not over impressed with the default layout, but as you will see from our screen shots, they can be changed to something you find more pleasing on the eye. After all, if your going to be spending a few hours looking at a screen, you will want to change it to something that looks good. The more I looked through the site and played about with the settings, the more I became impressed with what was on offer. The real money prize fund on offer each day, week and month was very impressive and must be getting the visitors in order to be able to offer such a large amount of cash. This means that you will never be short of finding someone to play a few hands against. I have found that I will pop back at least once a week to play a few hands and see what is going on. It isn’t the main site I play on, but a change is as good as a rest and this is a site that is very much worth a look. My favorite site is still pkr.com though.