My first report on playing Full Tilt Poker

A mixed bag. It wasn't too awful. I'll need more than my two and 1/2 hour test to be sure.

On the plus side - in comparison to Absolute and Ultimatebet, the speed of play is pretty reasonable. Whatever chat there was wasn't stupid. They're weren;t any obiously rigged hands - (Ultimate loves to make you lose with a full house versus four of a kind.)

And that's about all I can say for the good.

I'm awfully surprised I only won 250 chips in two and 1/2 hours. The kiddie graphics and playing on a 10-20 Omaha high low table for so long. This site must appeal to 10 year olds. Surely I can get some cards and take advantage.

No way. I haven't seen this much slow play on a killer hand in years. And it's not that the slow play beat me. (Too much.) Instead, it was a constant feeding of incredibly bad cards, what marginal hands I did call on were universally met with a flop that didn't match it, and suspicious raising.

As always, the raisers don't win too many hands. They're just feeding the pot. This site has the best excuse I've ever seen for explaining the constant raising on nothing - you can refresh to 1000 chips once every 5 minutes. Perfect excuse to have no motivation to be competitive and try and win.

So, now I'm thinking....I targeted this site after watching WSOP on ESPN, Scotty Nguyen (sp?) self destructing and playing with his Full Tilt Poker hat on. And...what kind of professional poker player would play on a site with these kiddie images? And what kind of non-professional poker player will play for several hours and slow play a hand on a 10-20 fixed limit game, only to make sure that I don't get any traction in case my bad cards aren't good enough?

Hmmmm......

AI again, just a different program than Absolute and Ultimate.

Mixed bag - nope, changed my mind. I don't have to play a single hand again to know Full Tilt is totally busted.

Scotty, enjoy your $$ you made for promoting yet another bogus poker site.