The Full Tilt Online Poker Series has been popular for many years as the top online poker room provided affordable poker tournaments online with access to quality guaranteed prize pools. The series runs for an extended period of time, allowing members of Full Tilt to take part in multiple events. It is that time of year again, with Full Tilt preparing for the FTOPS XXIX, with the series starting on the 21st of February and continuing until the 13th of March.
The series will have 46 tournament events and offer $1 million guaranteed prize pools. Two events will run each day, except on Sundays when the online poker room will offer three events on the schedule. As Amaya Gaming, the owner of Full Tilt, works to overhaul the brand, the FTOPS will have major changes to try and appeal to a wider audience.
Buy-in levels for the tournament series will range from $25 to $500, making each event affordable, with satellite tournaments having buy-ins starting at 100 Full Tilt Points. This will give players of all bank roll levels the opportunity to compete in a $1 million guaranteed event.
The Golden Parachute is a unique aspect to the series which will see a player who took part in a satellite event and not earning a seat to the target event, earning a free ticket to a Flip freeroll. This freeroll will award seats to that day’s FTOPS event. These freerolls will take place at 13:30 ET each Sunday with registration taking place one hour before the event is scheduled to begin.
During the daily freeroll, the top 50 players will be entered into the FTOPS Free Pass which is a multi-entry tournament. This tournament will give five tickets to the Main Event, worth $500 each. These freerolls will take each day from the 21st of February to the 11th of March at 15:00 ET.
There will also be a leaderboard competition offered by Full Tilt Poker in regards to the FTOPS. Players will earn points for the leaderboard based on the finishing position of each event. Players can earn as much as $5,000 in prizes during the series based on the leaderboard challenge. All final table players will earn a FTOPS jackpot and event winners will earn a FTOPS gold jersey.
The series will begin with Event #1 which has a 13:30 ET start time. No Limit hold’em is the game with full ring game play and slow speed. The buy-in is only $100 and the event will have $100,000 in guaranteed prize money. The next big event takes place on the 28th with event #16. This tournament will be No Limit Hold’em format as well with a $250 buy-in and a guaranteed prize pool of $125,000.
Fast forward to March 6th and you can take part in Event #30 which is No Limit Hold’em yet again but a Mega Stack event. The tournament will offer $150,000 in guaranteed prize money with a buy-in of $250. This prize pool is much larger so if you are going to pay the $250, I would personally choose to compete in this event.
The final event of the series is the Main Event which will begin at 13:30 ET on Sunday March 13th. This event has the largest prize pool and buy-in with $250,000 up for grabs and a $500 buy-in. 2x RET allows you to stay in the game and hopefully be part of the final table.
Head on over to Full Tilt to view the entire schedule and load your account to be ready to compete in the FTOPS XXIX in just a few weeks!