[benkahuna]

Full Tilt had about 100 online qualifiers for the main event.

Each of us got a t-shirt, a poster, a chocolate bar, a Howard Lederer DVD, a mousepad.

They then sent all of us a bunch of other stuff (I only got mine like 2 weeks ago for some odd reason) including a hat, 2 t-shirts, a polo shirt, a polartech fleece, and a deck of cards.

Full Tilt also had a hospitality suite set up near the gaming floor and was the only site to do so. At the suite, they had merchandise for sale.


Soooooo... they had a good merchandising push. They also had a booth at the convention center floor for the first 3 days of the main event and a gigantic banner in a large atrium connecting the casino floor to the card room floor.


If you'll notice, there are a ton of people with those white Pokerstars shirts as well. Some people just like wearing free stuff and some people feel compelled to wear stuff from the site that gave them their entry.


As far as pros, Full Tilt has an extraordinary number of strong players including:

Jesus, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Phil Gordon, Jon Juanda, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Phil Ivey, and Jennifer Harman.

Matusow and Layne Flack also have some relationship with FTP and Ted Forrest either does or did.


It's a powerhouse upstart of a site. I played there a year ago and they've grown tremendously since then.