Full Tilt Bonus Details

Full Tilt Poker offers all players that use Full Tilt referral code “THEFULLTILT” a 100% matching bonus of up to $600 on their first deposits.  For example, if you make a first deposit of $50 you receive a pending bonus of $50 as well.  You’ll then need to clear the bonus by playing in ring games and tourneys in order to release the bonus into your real account.  Every Full Tilt Point you earn clears six cents of your bonus.

Clearing the Full Tilt Bonus in Cash Games

In cash games you receive 1 Full Tilt point for every dollar that is taken in rake from a hand you took part in.  For example, if $0.10 is taken in rake, every player who was dealt into that hand earns 0.1 Full Tilt Points.  The amount of players at the table and the amount of money you contributed to the pot are not taken into account when Full Tilt Points are distributed.  For this reason the best way to clear your Full Tilt Poker bonus in cash games is by playing extremely tight at a 9-handed table.

Clearing the Full Tilt Bonus in Tournaments

In tournaments you earn 7 Full Tilt points for every dollar that you pay in fees.  For example, if you play in a $5 + $0.50 tournament you would earn 3.5 points.  Playing tournaments is a good way to clear your bonus because Full Tilt Poker has very player friendly clearing rates from poker tournaments.

Full Tilt Bonus Release

Your bonus is released from your pending bonus account in increments of 10% of your bonus or $20, whichever is smaller.  So, continuing with the example above, if you made an initial deposit of $50 you would receive bonus payments of $5 every time you earned 83.33 Full Tilt points.  Full Tilt gives you 120 days to clear your bonus.  After 120 days, however much of your bonus you have not cleared will be forfeit.

Conclusion

Full Tilt’s first deposit bonus is one of the best in online poker.  The size is strong and the clearing rates are quite player friendly.  There are no predatory terms in the bonus agreement.  I recommend that all online poker players take advantage of this great bonus at some point in the playing careers.