The Doubles
Full Tilt Poker offers an interesting set of tournaments where participation in both can mean a lot of extra cash if you manage to get into the money of each. Full Tilt Poker offers the Early Double set and Daily Double sets within the purview of this article. Simply sign up and play both and if you money both of them you can gain a share of the jackpot dependent on your finish. Players can qualify for each Jackpot % that applies. If you manage to win both on the same day, you would get 75% of the jackpot as well as share the final 25% with everyone else who qualifies for each prize. The following chart shows when the tournaments run as well as the jackpot payouts and an example of what the jackpots look like.
The Rebuys
As you can see by the following chart, Full Tilt Poker offers a variety of Micro and Low Buy-In guaranteed prizepool rebuy tournaments. In each case, players receive 1500 chips and gain a further 1500 chips for each rebuy. Players will receive 2000 chips when they add-on after the rebuy period ends. Each of these tournaments has 10 minute blind levels.
The Super Stacks
Full Tilt Poker offers three Super Stack tournaments for $10+$1 each day. Each tournament offers its players 5000 starting chips and 12 minute blind levels. These tournaments provide their players with a more relaxed casual tournament and patient players can use their skill to take advantage of the structure. It is also a decent tournament for purposes of training for some of the bigger tournaments offered online to in live tournament environments.
Super Turbo Knockouts
Super Stacks too slow? Want to get in and out and win tons of cash? Strap on your helmet for these wild and wooly tournaments. You’ll start with 300 chips and the blinds will accelerate every 5 minutes. If you are a pushbot players or simply strapped for time, these Knockouts are for you.
The Cashouts
From Full Tilt Poker:
Cashout Poker Tournaments follow the same rules as standard tournaments, except that each buy-in is split between a regular tournament prize pool and a Cashout pool. Players compete for a share of the tournament prize pool as they would in a standard tournament, but also have the option of cashing out some or all of their chips before the tournament has finished.
Each buy-in is split between their prizepool and the cashout pool. Players vie for the prizepool as normal, but may cash out part or all of their chips prior to the completion of the tournament. Full Tilt Poker shows an example of a cash out tournament:
How Cashouts Work
When a player decides to cash out, the amount they choose is taken from the Cashout pool. Cashout value is based on starting stack size and the tournament buy-in amount.
For example, in a Cashout Poker Tournament with a $20 + $2 buy-in, $10 goes to the tournament prize pool and $10 goes to the Cashout pool. If each player starts the tournament with 1,500 chips, then 1,500 chips are worth $10.
Partial Cashout
Players may make partial Cashouts in 10% increments of their original stack size. Using the tournament example above, partial Cashouts work like this:
• A player may cash out as few as 150 chips – 10% of the starting stack; the value for 150 chips in this example is $1
• A player whose stack size has increased to 3,000 may choose to cash out 1,500 chips; the value for 1,500 chips in this example is $10
• A player whose stack size has increased to 5,000 may choose to cash out 3,000 chips; the value for 3,000 chips in this example is $20
The following cashout guarantee prizepool tournaments are available daily:
Tournaments of Interest
The following tournaments don’t fall easily into a category:
The Double Deuce – Although slightly outside of the scope of this article with its $20+$2 buy-in, not including this would leave the article incomplete. Without a doubt, the guaranteed $200,000 prizepool is the largest within the grasp of a player who has a small bankroll or an aversion to paying out too much money on tournaments while he or she learn how to play tournaments. Be warned, this tournament will have a lot of players and run about ten hours. The tournaments starts at 4:22 PM EST each Sunday. Players will start with 3220 chips and blind levels are 10 minutes.
$15,000 Guaranteed Daily Dollar – One dollar. Players receive 3000 chips and the blind levels are 10 minutes long. This tournament starts at 8:15 PM EST each day. Players can expect upwards of 10,000 players in this tournament.
$8,000 Guarantee Rush – Players start with 3000 chips and 6 minute blinds. At 11:00 AM EST players can participate in this tournament for a buy-in of $10+$1. If you are unfamiliar with what Rush Poker is, you can find Full Tilt’s Rush Poker page here. http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rush-poker
Midnight Madness – This $20,000 Guarantee runs each midnight [EST] and costs $10+$1. Players receive 1500 chips and the blind levels increase every 10 minutes.
The Ferguson/$500 Guarantee – Named after Full Tilt Pro Chris Ferguson, this tournament costs $1 and runs at 1:30 AM EST. Players start with 1500 chips and 10 blind levels. Players can occasionally see Chris Ferguson playing this tournament.
$6,000 and $7,500 Guarantees – These two tournaments each cost $10+$1. Players in each start with 1500 chips and 10 minute blind levels. They start at 6:00 AM and 8:00 AM EST, respectively.
$8+$0.80 Tournaments – Although not a guaranteed prizepool tournament, I am including these tournaments for a few reasons. First, they have a maximum of 180 players meaning you won’t be overwhelmed by huge player pools. Second, unlike their SnG counterparts, these start at select times throughout the day and several run each day. Finally, if the tournament fills up, which happens consistently in mid-day to evening tournaments, 1st will pay $388.80 with a total of 18 places paid.
