Overview

Full Tilt Poker - home of Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, John Juanda and the biggest online cash games in the world. If you haven't heard about the hundreds of thousands of dollars which have been traded on the big games, you must have been asleep or something. The largest tables are a railbird's heaven, which is surely why one of those tables is called 'RailHeaven'. Make no mistake though, Full Tilt Poker isn't just for the railbirds though, offering a huge selection of cash and tournament games for all and sundry.

Conclusion: While PokerStars might have the most players, Full Tilt is certainly king of the cash games - nosebleed games at the top, lots of action at the bottom

Software

If the fact you can watch the world's best smashing each other up in $200k+ pots on a regular basis wasn't enough, you can do it with Tom Durrr Dwan looking like a little dog! Yes, the caricatures of Gus, Patrik and Phil might be funny enough on their own (we won't even start on Roland De Wolfe's effort), but the visuals of the Full Tilt software really are unique. You have a wide choice of little avatars, each which can be adjusted to be happy, angry, confused or just plain normal. If you don't like playing poker with Disney effects, you can go to a more classic look. We'd think you were a little bland though.
The betting and gameplay is also incredibly simple. Handy buttons for betting either half or full pot are included, as well as a simple and intuitive slide bar and even a box to type those odd sized bets in, if that tickles your fancy.

Conclusion: If it's good enough for Patrik Antonius, surely it's good enough for you? Walt Disney would have approved, that's for sure.

Traffic

The second busiest site on the web, just after PokerStars. The cash games are always full, and while tournaments might not be quite as popular as on their main rival's site, you won't be left short of options if you prefer tournament poker to the ring games.

Conclusion: If it's busy enough for Phil Ivey, it's busy enough for us. Basically, it's busy.

Donks or Not?

We have heard there's a couple of fish up at the $500/$1000 games, but seeing we're not playing at those levels, we won't worry about too much.
The standard of play on Full Tilt is rock solid for the most part. As with any poker game, you get the occasional sucker stroll onto your table, intent on 'gambling' with his J8o UTG, but then you get those everywhere. The majority of players on Full Tilt are more cultured players, making the games tougher than average. That said, the smaller stakes games are still very beatable, as are the sit and gos, which have a very good structure to them allowing good players to show their edge more often than not.

Conclusion: Solid players on the whole, and we hear Ivey and Juanda can both play a bit too.