Some Very Nice Changes on Full Tilt

I just got word from Full Tilt about some changes that I think are great for those of you that play online.

Run It Twice – I’m sure you all know how it works, but briefly: If there are two players in the hand and there’s an all-in and call before the river, and both players have decided to run it twice (there’s a new checkbox in the “permanent checkbox” area of the table), any board cards left to come will be dealt twice, resulting in two boards. Half the pot will go to the winner of the first board and half the pot will go to the winner of the second board.

For now, only NLH, PLO, and HA games in Ivey’s Room have “Run It Twice” enabled. It will be added for lower stakes games in the coming weeks.

For more details: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/run-it-twice

Cashout Tournaments – A totally new type of tournament. If you’ve ever heard someone say “I wish I could just take these tournament chips and cash out right now,” well, now they can. Part (usually half) of your buy-in goes to the regular prize pool, but the rest goes to a “Cash-out Pool” which gets depleted as people “cash out” of the tournament.

By way of example: Say the buy-in is $20 and you start with 1,000 chips. If $10 of the buy-in goes to the Cash-out Pool, each 100 chips will be worth $1 of the Cash-out Pool. At any time throughout the tournament (except the very beginning while people are still registering and the very end) you can cash out part or all of your tournament chips for cash.

For more details: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/cashout-tournaments

For those of you who like the 7 game mixed event, which includes HORSE + PLO + NLH, FTOPS Event #2 is now the 7-Game mix, which will be on November 5th. The FTOP’s kicks off on November 4th, here is the schedule: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/promotions/full-tilt-online-poker-series/schedule.php

Hope to see you there.