Last year, Full Tilt.net was sued by Larry Kennedy and Greg Omotoy for false advertising, fraud and libel. The pair charged that the company had unlawfully seized more than $80,000 from their accounts that they say they rightfully won playing poker at the online poker site.

The site argued that the pair had used illegal bot software, and had dismissed the pair’s suits as baseless and frivolous. This week, the case was thrown out by the Superior Court in Los Angeles.

In Kentucky, Full Tilt's parent company, Pocket Kings, received a temporary relief during discovery by the state's lawyers. The state of Kentucky is seeking to seize more than 140 international domain names in its maneuver against the online poker giant. So far, the state has been unsuccessful.

The temporary delay was awarded to Pocket Kings after a state judge agreed and that's the company had not been properly served in a timely manner. In that way, then, no discovery could be permitted. This is not a huge win, because once pocket Kings is properly served, discovery can continue. But the order does at least delay some of this legal maneuvering against the company.

A player who goes by the user name Isildur1 has been playing at Full Tilt (www.fulltiltpoker.net) for several months and has established a name for himself both due to his winnings, his losses, and his utter desire to stay anonymous.

A recent announcement indicated that Isildur1 would reveal his identity while playing in the Big Game IV, a live event that attracts some of the top poker players in the world. In fact, it was announced that its Isildur1 would not reveal his identity but would instead play in the live event wearing a disguise.

This week, however, it was announced that Isildur1 would not be playing in the tournament after all, and will continue to maintain his or her anonymity.

What has fueled even more talk, however, is that a new Swedish player has arrived in online poker rooms with the user name Ingsoni. This player has been playing at Party Poker (www.partypoker.com) since February when he or she was in the hole to the tune of more than $57,000, but by this week has amassed more than $700,000 in winnings.

Some believe that Ingsoni is simply Isildur1 with a different username. Well it may not be known who the player is, one thing is for sure: He or she is truly a poker mystery.

The biggest single payout is the Main event; paying out two and a half million dollars.  From there, the next biggest payout is the two-day event with 2 million dollars of prize money.  This event is unique in a couple ways.  First of all, the buy in is fairly high for an internet tournament at two thousand, two hundred and sixty dollars.  This is then turned into 6000 chips to be used for play.  The structure of the tournament is also unique; with thirty minute ante periods and two days of play before the winner is selected.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Tournament Series also offers a number of a prizes on top of the cash prizes.  For the people that make it to final round tables, they get a Full Tilt jacket.  Anyone that wins an event gets a jacket, as well as a gold jersey.  On top of this, their site avatar gets a golden jersey as well.  Full Tilt has avatars so that each person has a character on the site and only a select few get the distinction of the golden jersey.  For the person that is the top player at the end of the series, they will get a fully customized Avatar, as well as entries into all of the next series tournaments, except the two-day tournament.

Full Tilt also offers mini entries.  This lets someone with a small budget enter the tournament for a much smaller entry fee.  The buy in is one-tenth and the payouts are similar.

They have three types of lobby's for players to choose from:

Classic - This is what most poker players are familiar with and is a simple list of tabs for the different poker games and then a selection of the poker limits for each game as well as different rule variations (NL, Limit, Pot Limit).

Basic - This is a way to find a poker game by selecting  your playing preference. Firs the currency: play money or real money, then players choose the type of game either: ring game, sit and go or tournament. They then narrow it down by game, limit, stakes and finally the last option is Play. The choices at play: Play FullRing Now (9 players), 6 players, Observe table or browse tables..which is a combination of the new basic and classic lobby which is now called...standard.

Standard - Is a combination of classic and basic with filters at the top and the full list of games below. Which in my opinion is the best way to go and I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes the default for most players. It is very clean and allows players to set favorites on their favorite filters making it that much easier to find your favorite fulltiltpoker.net real money games.
They have also recently updated the full tilt poker replayer. It is more of a replay where you can step through the hand instead of the basic text and who won the hand image.

Phil Ivey has had an impressive 2009 WSOP with 2 bracelets, 5 cashes and winning $356,994. If Phil Ivey can make the final table he will be able to add at least a million dollars to his 2009 WSOP winnings.

Other notables still in the 2009 WSOP main event are Antonio Esfandiari and Dennis Phillips who finished 3rd last year in the Main Event.

The tournament will be played on Sunday the 15th or if it doesn't land on the day the first Sunday after it. Their is an upcoming tourament on Sunday, June 21st at 14:15ET.

If you don't have 5,000 points then you still have a chance to qualify for the tournament. Through out the month full tilt will be running qualifiers for players to enter satellite tournaments for 50 points.

Full Tilt Poker has each event hosted by a Full Tilt Poker Pro, the first one will be hosted by Erick Lindgren and will have a guarantee of $1 million dollars and the format will be a $200+$16 NL hold-em 6-max event. It will be played on Wednesday, May 6th at 21:00 ET.

Full Tilt will finish the FTOPS with a $500+$35 No Limit Hold-em event that will have a monster prize pool of $2.5 million dollars and will be hosted by Jennifer Harman.

MiniFTOPS XII

They have also announced the first of a much smaller event called the:  MiniFTOPS XII. The events will coincide with the larger events but will have 1/10 the buy-in and will have over $2 million dollars in a guaranteed money. In addition to the prize money for each tournament, they will be giving away a MiniFTOPS jacket for players that make the final table and winners of each event will also be given a silver MiniFTOPS jersey.

FTOPS XII Satellites and Challenges

Full Tilt is currently running satellites now for the FTOPS XII as well as the miniFTOPS, Log-in now to FullTiltPoker to win your seat into any of the 25 events now.

Full Tilt has a series of challenges for players looking to play multiple events. The largest of the challenges is a million dollar challenge for a plyer to make the money in at least 17 FTOPS events. This is also the case with the MiniFTOPS but the winner of that will receive $100k grand prize.

An hour before at 20:05 ET there will be two sweat events that are $5k events with an entry fee of $10+$1. Players can choose who they think will win between Elezra and Giang and play in their respective sweat event. If you play in the winners event the winner of the sweat tournament will be given a free entery to the Fright Night Fight Knockout which is a $500+$35 dollar buy-in.

The Fight Night Fight Knockout will be played at 21:00 ET and have a guaranteed prize pool of $75k with an entry fee of $500+$35. Players can register for the event without having to play the sweat event.

Full Tilt Poker is one of the best poker sites and is currently the second largest online poker site.

There are several preconditions to the Durrrr’s Million Dollar Challenge:

1. The competitor owes Dwan $500,000 in the event of his success.
2. Only No Limit Hold ‘em and Pot-Limit Omaha are to be played.
3. Game stakes are to be at least $200/$400.
4. Stakes are to remain constant for the entire challenge, once they have been agreed upon.
5. Competitors must consistently have at least 75 big blinds in their stack at a time, otherwise they must reload.

First up to the challenge is heads-up specialist Patrik Antonius. Finland native, Antonius has been a regular on the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour and is currently on “Team Full Tilt”. The two previously battled at the Aussie Millions Cash Game in 2009, where Antonius was victorious. Starting on February 18, 2009, the heads-up pair have so far played 4,178 of the total 50,000 hands, playing for a total of 13 hours and 12 minutes. Currently Durrrr is ahead with $140, 380.00 in winnings and a total of 2,325 hands won.

Poker legend Phil Ivey and high-stakes player David Benyamine are next up to the challenge. Full Tilt Poker has a constant update of the current challenge at their site under promotions. Here you can find the latest stats, high-stakes hands, and tables for the challenge.

From Monday, Jan. 26th thru Sunday, Feb. 1st  full tilt player who play in two ring games at the same time (multi-tabling) will get double the full tilt points!

It is important for players to sign up for the take 2 promotion or you will not get double the points. To register for the promotion go to the cashier (in the full tilt lobby) then My Promotions. You will then see the take 2 section and continue on until you see a button that says "Yes, I would like to participate in Take 2". After you have completed these steps and seelct the button you will now get double the points when you play this week on full tilt.org!

You will be able to keep track of your points in the Take 2 My Promotions section. Your points will then be credited to your account within 6 hours of playing. This is a great time to start multi-tabling or if you already are a multi-tabler get some more hours in!

See you at the tables.