5 Things I Miss About Full Tilt Poker

Reviewing all sorts of sites for my Omaha Poker site over the last week or so... and at the same time removing most of the references to how great Full Tilt Poker was. This gave me the idea for a quick nostalgic post here, looking back to how great the spring of 2011 was – until the US DoJ put a big enough spanner in the works to reveal the corruption and mismanagement behind certain poker sites!

So, keeping things light-hearted (and hoping that we do see Full Tilt return in the earlyish part of 2012) here are the top 5 things I miss about Full Tilt Poker.

1 Rush Poker

In particular Pot Limit Omaha Rush Poker, make that multi-tabling that game... in fact I miss this so much it could be 1 to 6 on my top 10 using the same title. Somehow the intensity of the game made it relaxing... you could dip in and out for 15 minutes at a time, play 150 hands and then carry right on – feeling like your mind had had a refreshing break from whatever slow and monotonous task you were doing at the time. Please poker gods, bring me back my medicine soon.

2 Nosebleeds

Sure, there are some big games on Stars, not the same though. There was something therapeutic about watching pots of $100k+ change direction on the turn of a river card... it kind of made that bad beat you just suffered in a $11 SNG seem less of a big deal after all.

3 FTOPS / Mini-FTOPS

These championship events seemed to roll around at an ever increasing rate, with huge (and soft) fields and massive numbers of satellites. With UBOC also gone and ECOOP now seemingly defunct on the iPoker Network too, the need for FTOPS to come back is bigger than ever... oh and do not forget the mini-version, the 10% buy-in thing was inspired, well, for those who enjoyed tournaments with 10,000+ entrants that is...

4 90 Player Knockout SNGS

Another personal relaxation game. After finishing writing for the day these 2ish+ hour games were great to unwind and being on the front page of the tournament lobby, they kept attracting a great number of recreational players compared to regulars too.... the 180s on Stars are a nice alternative, just somehow not quite the same.

5 The Full Tilt Software

Not everyone will agree with this one, though I loved the Full Tilt Poker software... not only the engine behind it which kept the games running smoothly, I'm talking about the colorful avatars, the different look for the final tables and the nice easy controls. Even if this site never comes back in the original form, I hope one poker network or another buys the software... that and Rush, and I'll be back online!