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Make no mistake about it. There are a hell of a lot of runners out there in the race for internet poker dominance. But undoubtedly the strongest of them all, for the second year running as a matter of fact, is GOM’s Top Poker Site award winner, Full Tilt Poker.
By methods that admittedly go way beyond our level of comprehension, over the course of the previous year, Full Tilt Poker have somehow managed to improve on a reputation that was already synonymous with online poker excellence, and made their site even better.
The online poker giants have continued to set the standard to which all other sites aspire, with their constant dedication to providing an ever-innovating gaming client and a range of tournaments and cash games currently unrivalled by any of the other poker rooms on the net.
Since the site launched in 2004, Full Tilt has remained one of the fastest growing online poker rooms in the market, and their high-volume traffic remains on an upward trend at the start of 2009. With an average of upward of 10,000 players on its tables at any given time, Full Tilt continues to be one of the busiest operators on the net. And with its commitment to offer more poker variants and more great promotions than anybody else, it’s not hard to see why.
Here at GOM we recognise that online poker is an ever-changing industry in terms of both players’ needs, preferences and the resources at their disposal. Our readers agree and felt that the winner of Top Poker Site award would have to be someone who demonstrated an active recognition of these factors and made provisions on their site accordingly—and with the range of games on offer at their tables, top notch customer support and a truly excellent selection of value-added tournaments, Full Tilt stood head and shoulders above the rest of the competition.
With everything from the industry-standard Texas Hold ‘em to the increasingly popular pot-limit Omaha via the little-heralded Razz—apparently some of you out there still play it—Full Tilt offers a comprehensive selection of games to suit all tastes and budgets, and the action available on their PLO cash tables is the stuff of internet legend. Couple such a wide range of variants with their staple promotions like the $750,000 Sunday Guarantee tournament and the $200,000 Double Deuce event and you have line-up to match anything else on the market.
However, outstanding gameplay and promotional offers aside, the online poker giants have yet another string to their bow that sets them apart from their rivals—prestige. Quite simply, as a name alone, Full Tilt commands respect throughout the poker industry—both live and online—and the site has always strived to attach itself to some of the best pros in the business to further market their stellar reputation across the globe.
Of course, the full list of big-name Full Tilt pros could fill an article in itself, but such is the site’s sway in the poker industry that chances are, if you can think of a successful player, Full Tilt already sponsor them. With household names like Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Chris Ferguson and Mike Matusow joined by online hotshots such as Taylor Caby and Andrew Wiggins on the Tilt books, the site really is the place to be if you want to play with the pros.
No more is this monopoly of talent better illustrated than the site’s flagship event, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series. FTOPS is the net’s most eagerly-anticipated series of online tournaments and the event attracts some of the biggest names in live and online poker, who regularly flock to the site to battle it out for thousands of dollars in prize money and priceless bragging rights across the net.
Full Tilt, meanwhile, will simply have to content themselves with bragging rights across the poker industry courtesy of GOM.
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