By
Dan |
Published
Jun 30 2007, 11:45 PM
Fresh off its World Series of Poker Main Event Seat Giveaway,
Full Tilt Poker is at it again. This time, the site has drastically upped the number of guaranteed tournaments it offers. PocketFiver ftpdoug first broke the news on the site and, since then, the response has been overwhelming. The added guarantees are highlighted by the “Fifty-Fifty Guarantee,” where you can play in a
$50,000 guarantee tournament for a buy in $50 + $5. A bevy of satellites are available as well if the $50 is out of your price range. There are a dozen new guaranteed tournaments on
Full Tilt Poker in total. In addition, the two major weekly tournaments have had their guarantees increased significantly.
It’s worth describing the Fifty-Fifty Guarantee in depth. The $50,000 guarantee tournament runs every Wednesday at 9:30pm ET. First place is worth at least $9,500. You can buy in for $55 or satellite in for as little as $2.25. If you want to spend those hard-earned Full Tilt Points, 50 of those will get you in as well. The tournament will become a staple of the PocketFives.com Online Tournament Player Rankings given its prize pool and overall value. Each player starts with 2,000 chips; blind levels are 12-minutes, starting with 10/20.
PocketFiver ftpdoug shared his thoughts on the Fifty-Fifty Guarantee: “A nightly $50 at 21:30 seemed like a perfect addition. As for the silly name, that was my fault. I like silly names. We almost called it the ‘nifty fifty.’ So far the feedback has been excellent and I'm really pleased with how it's going. We also added a similar $50 at 15:30 ET for our European players (and our US players with awesome jobs), so nobody feels left out!”
The fleet of added guaranteed tournaments is truly diverse and should allow players with varying bankrolls a reason to get excited. Besides the Fifty-Fifty Guarantee, there’s another $50 buy in tournament at 11:30pm ET. It’s a rebuy tournament with a $20,000 guarantee. There’s also a standard $50 freeze out at 3:30pm ET with a $15,000 guarantee. If you like lower stakes, there’s a $3 rebuy at 8:30pm ET with a $6,000 guarantee. Two $100 buy in tournaments have been added as well. There’s one at 3:00am ET with an $8,500 guarantee and another at 9:00pm ET each Wednesday that’s a rebuy tournament with $45,000 guaranteed. Tournaments are spread out over the day, so players from all over the world should find at least one time they can play.
If all of that weren’t enough for you, the weekly $400,000 guaranteed tournament has been upped to $500,000 and the $750,000 Guarantee is now a $1 million. Doug talks about the major changes to Full Tilt’s tournament schedule: “I can say one of the best things about working here is when we add something that players want and it's a big success. PocketFives has had a real hand in helping shape our tournament schedule for the past year or so, and I'm sure that will continue.”
Special thanks to ftpdoug for providing PocketFives with the latest news from Full Tilt Poker. Check out the $4 million in guarantees on Full Tilt Poker. If you’re looking for a great value, visit Full Tilt Poker today.