Online poker is thriving. While many sites have stopped taking on U.S. poker players there are still plenty of online poker opportunities on the World Wide Web. In this article we analyze two sites on different aspects of online play. Poker Stars and Full Tit Poker.Poker StarsPoker Stars is the largest online site, with over 100,000 players at any given time. As I write this article there are currently 131,000 playing either tournaments or cash games. If you’re just beginning with online poker, Poker Stars has free rolls almost every hour. The games rotate between Texas Hold ‘Em, Omaha, Razz, Stud, Bedugi, and HORSE. They all can accommodate up 12,000 people. These are first round satellites. The top 64, 72, 88, or 99 finishers (depending on the game) advance to round two tournaments held on the weekends and have a $2,000 prize pool.Poker Stars has a wide selection of scheduled tournaments starting at just ten cents all the way up to $200 buy-in. The top 10% typically make the money. Sometimes the site offers a 20% payout tournament that pays twice the amount of players. The big regularly scheduled tournament on the site is called “Sunday Millions.” The website offers a number of small buy in satellites to this tournament, which has a buy-in of $215 and once a month, a $500 buy-in. Sunday Millions has a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 Million. The winner gets approximately $170,000. The sit and go schedule on Poker Stars is especially remarkable, with limits ranging from $1.00 all the way up to $5,000. The sit and go fields range from heads up (one on one) to 180 players. Cash games at Poker Stars are also quite widespread, starting at .01-.02 blinds to an amazing $1,000/$2,000 game. Cash games are assessable in just about every poker game you want to play, including HORSE and Deuce to Seven Lowball. Full Tilt PokerFull Tilt is where I spend most of my online poker playing. Full Tilt has approximately 60,000 players at any given time. The largest attraction at Full Tilt is the approachability of the Full Tilt Pros. Full Tilt offers poker forums and live chats with different poker pros that you can ask strategy questions in real time. You will see professionals like Allen Cunningham, Mike Matusow, David Pham, or Erick Lindgren playing tournaments and cash games. The very unique feature of Full Tilt Poker is a bounty on any pro in any tournament of 30 players or more. If you knock a pro out of any tournament you win a bounty of the tournament buy-in up to $200. You can literally find any poker game you want at Full Tilt in tournaments or cash game. Picture playing a Razz cash game. You can find it at Full Tilt.Full Tilt’s free roll schedules are approximately one every two hours. The field size is significantly lower than Poker Stars with a limit of 2700 people, but only 27 players win money. These free rolls are not satellites, they are real money tournaments with a $100 prize pool. The games switch between No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, Omaha, Razz and HORSE.The Tournament schedule at Full Tilt is quite huge. You can find a $3.00, 90 player, bounty sit and go tournament. The buy-ins at Full Tilt range from $2.00 all the way up to $1,000. The payouts are always in the top 10% of the field. Full Tilt offers a number of “daily double” tournaments. They are two consecutively running tournaments with the same buy-ins. (the buy-ins are $5.00, $10.00, and $60.00 at different times of the day) If you cash in both tournaments you win extra money from extra jackpot prize pool. If you are able to win both tournaments you get the whole jackpot.Full Tilt has a Sunday feature tournament, “The $750,000 guarantee.” Anywhere from 20 to 50 poker pros will play in the tourney every Sunday. Satellites with as little as 50 Full Tilt Player Points can get you into this feature tournament.Full Tilt has an extensive list of sit and go tournaments ranging in buy-in from $1.00 to an amazing $5,000. The fields range from heads up (one on one) to at most 90 players. Sit and go games include Hold ‘Em, Omaha, Razz, Stud, HOSE and HORSE. One unique sit and go that is exclusive to Full Tilt are their “Matrix” sit and go tournaments. In these tournaments you play four, one table sit and go games at the same time against the same eight players. The tournament pays out based on survival and knock out points.
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