Tournaments

Everyone wants to play tournaments, particularly with the explosion of tournament
poker in all formats: in brick-and-mortar card rooms, on television, and online.

To address this need, the Team Full Tilt pros have put their heads together and designed
the best online tournament environment you'll find anywhere. Our tournaments feature a
wide variety of games, structures, and buy-ins designed to suit all types of players with all
sorts of bankrolls. Whether you're looking to play a one-table Sit & Go (SNG) or a large
multi-table tournament (MTT), you don't have to travel any further than the Full Tilt Poker
Game Lobby to find the event you're looking for.

Begin by clicking one of three tournament tabs at the top of the screen: Tournaments, Sit &
Go, or Special. Each tab contains a subset of the tournaments offered at Full Tilt Poker.
The following steps will guide you through the process of browsing, selecting, and
entering the tournament of your choice.

Tournament Color-Coding - We use different colors to highlight key tournaments. The grid
below will guide you to the tournaments you want to play:
Black - Cash tournaments
Green - Winner's Choice tournaments and other events where you can win seats at live
tournaments such as WPT and WSOP events
Orange - Satellites for Aussie Millions or the WSOP (alternating throughout the year)
Pink - Guarantee tournaments

Tournament Satellites - Many of our tournaments offer satellites. When you open the lobby
for an event before it starts, you will see a list of all of the satellite events that can earn you
a seat in the main tournament you selected.

Once the tournament begins, a tournament table window will automatically open with you
seated at the table. Just as in other games, if you specified Auto Center from the Options
drop-down menu in the lobby, the table rotates so that you are front and center. You can
always right-click on any position and specify Put Me Here if you want to move to that
position.
When a tournament is in progress, you can also observe other tables. You can click on a
player's name, which will auto-select the table at which that player is sitting, or choose a
table from the list in the table window. After performing one of these two actions, click on
OBSERVE TABLE to watch the action. You can also simply double-click on a player or a
table in order to open a table.

Most of the features at tournament tables are the same as at any other table, but there are
a few differences.

When the action begins in a blind game, the button is placed randomly at one of the seats,
and everyone is dealt in. If it is your turn to post a blind, the software automatically posts
the blind for you. Although the AUTO-POST BLINDS or AUTO-POST ANTES checkbox
appears, and is checked, you cannot uncheck it. The checkbox is there only to remind you
that the software automatically posts a blind when it is your turn to do so.

When the limit changes, a notice appears and remains in place for a few seconds, and a
notice from the Tournament Director appears in the chat window. The title bar always
indicates the current betting limit. In Limit Hold 'em, that information is the actual limits. In
Pot-Limit or No-Limit Hold 'em, it is the size of the blinds. In Stud, it is the limits and the
ante size.

If you need to leave your computer for any reason and do not want to get timed out, click
SIT OUT NEXT HAND. You will receive cards, but your hand will automatically be folded to
any bet, including your turn to open on the first round. In a Stud game, if you have the
low-card bring-in, the minimum bet will be made for you, and then your hand will be folded
to any bet. When you get back, click DEAL ME IN to uncheck the SIT OUT NEXT HAND
checkbox, and you can again play your hand normally.