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One of the many promotional tournament events at Full Tilt Poker is the Fifty-Fifty. This is a tournament that runs every night at 9:30 pm ET, with a direct buy-in of $50+5, and a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. The top prize for the Fifty-Fifty is over $9500 and making the final table guarantees you over $750.
There’s a good selection of satellite tournaments for the Fifty-Fifty as well. Full Tilt offers $2.25 and $3.30 rebuy tournaments, plus $6.60, $8.80 and $15 freezeouts. Satellites run all day long and can be found in the Full Tilt Poker lobby under ‘Tournaments’ > ‘Satellites’.
The Fifty-Fifty is just one of many nightly guaranteed tournaments at Full Tilt Poker. Guaranteed tournaments in the $2000 – $80,000 range run every night of the week, with some bigger ones sprinkled in as well. Every guaranteed tournament that Full Tilt Poker runs has satellites, most of them have FTP satellites as well.
Only Pokerstars has more tournaments than Full Tilt. If you prefer tournaments, you should definitely be playing at one of these rooms, if not both of them.
When you sign up, use Full Tilt bonus code PHATBONUS to get a 100% bonus up to $600. If you’d like to give Pokerstars a try, you can read about the Pokerstars bonus, or go directly to Pokerstars. If you choose to go directly to Pokerstars, be sure to write down the new marketing and bonus codes. Pokerstars recently started a new bonus, now equal in size to the one at Full Tilt. The new bonus is also 100% up to $600, but you need to use both codes. The Pokerstars marketing code is PSP2175, and the bonus code is Stars600.
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* US players not accepted at PartyPoker
For Mac & Linux users, PartyPoker has a great instant play version that allows you to play in your internet browser. You don’t have to install WINE, just hit the instant play button and off you go.
The instant play version offers a nice graphic experience, with only a few features missing from the full download version. The missing features are the ability to cascade, tile, or resize tables. You also lose the dealer options and ability to play on private tables. If you aren’t super picky, the PartyPoker instant play version is great. The sound effects are still good, the graphics look and move nicely, and aside from the missing features I mentioned above, everything feels like a normal online poker experience. This is not the dark ages of instant play poker (in fact, it’s probably closer to being the future of the game).
The PartyPoker instant play, no download version runs on Firefox 1.0, Safari 1.3, Explorer 6.0 or newer browsers. It supports MRJ 2.2.5 for Mac users, Microsoft JVM, IBM JDK, and Sun JDK 1.4/1.5. Try it Now!
The PartyPoker instant play version is for real money and play money players. You’ll have access to all of the cash games and tournaments, with nothing missing. If you already have a PartyPoker account, all you have to do is go to the Instant Play page and click the button to get running.
If you don’t have an account registered at PartyPoker, this is all you have to do:
1/ Jot down the PartyPoker bonus code so you can get the 100% up to $500 bonus. The bonus code is PPC500.
2/ Choose your game play version. For the instant play version CLICK HERE. For the full download version CLICK HERE.
3/ Regardless of which version you play on, you will be walked through a simple registration process. When asked for it, enter the bonus code.
That’s all there is to it. Have fun!
* Did you know you that Linux users can play at Pokerstars using WINE? Not only is Pokerstars the largest online poker room in the world, but they also allow US players…unlike PartyPoker. Check out our Pokerstars bonus page for information about the new $600 bonus, or our Pokerstars Linux information on our sister site.
