Step Aside, Neo -- Full Tilt Poker Redefines the Matrix

“You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.” – Morpheus, The Matrix

Take the red pill (by registering for a Matrix tournament) and you will be introduced to an entirely new way of playing the game. Take the blue pill (by ignoring them entirely) and you will continue to live your normal life, unaware that anything is different in the world.

Full Tilt Poker gives you this option. What’s it going to be?

Last month, Full Tilt launched its new Matrix sit-and-go tournaments. In the Matrix, you play against one table full of competitors. The only catch is that you play against them four times — simultaneously. The prize pool is divvied up so that each table has its own cash to play for, and a points system is in place to give the top three overall players an added bonus.

For a $10+$1 nine-handed no-limit hold’em matrix tournament, the $90 prize pool is divided up in the following ways: each of the four tables pays $9 to the table winner, $5.40 to second place, and $3.60 to third place. The top three overall finishers are paid an additional $9, $5.40, or $3.60 based on their finish.

To determine the overall standings, a points system awards two points for each knockout a player has, one point for each competitor he outlasts, and a two-point bonus for winning a table. These points are calculated as they occur in the Matrix’s lobby, along with every player’s current earned point total, projected point total based on their chip stacks, and maximum point total he can still achieve if he wins out in grandiose fashion.

If a player beats the odds and wins each of the four tables, he scoops the entire Matrix prize pool and is affectionately referred to by Full Tilt as the tournament’s “dominatrix.”

Full Tilt is offering Matrix tournaments for a variety of games and levels, from $1+$0.25 six-handed limit hold’em to $2,100+$90 nine-handed pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better. H.O.R.S.E. and Omaha games are also featured in the Matrix tourneys.

The new style might not be for those players wary of multi-tabling, but then again, it could provide good practice if they want to improve that aspect of their game. With four games going on at the same time with the same competitors, reading opponents’ styles and approaches holds even greater importance.

 The payout structure also spreads the wealth a little bit. In fact, this style might be considered a more conservative approach to gambling. It is possible that each competitor could at least get a partial refund since the style pays out 12 spots (first through third for each table) before the points system comes into play.

Matrix tournaments are running 24 hours a day, seven days a week at Full Tilt. To deposit funds into Full Tilt, make sure to use Card Player’s exclusive Full Tilt deposit bonus.

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