Full Tilt Introduces Black Card Team Pro Names and Adrenaline Rush

As 2014 begins and we look back at 2013, the highlight for the poker community would be the return of online poker in the US. Of course, there has been the dominating show from Daniel Negreanu and German players taking most of the high rollers across the world. 2013 was also very positive for Full Tilt as they announcements started trickling from August about the American players getting a date to submit petitions about frozen balances and a probability that they will be able to receive what is due to them soon.

With their worst days behind them, Full Tilt Poker has begun 2014 with a big bang with two crucial announcements. One of them about the Full Tilt Black Card Team Pros and the other about the launch of their own version of the popular Rush Poker cash game variant known as Adrenaline Rush. Here is all you need to know about the Black Card Team as well as the brand new game called Adrenaline from Full Tilt Poker.

Adrenaline Rush and Rush Poker

Rush poker is a poker format innovated by Full Tilt with the same fundamental rules as that of the traditional game. The difference is that you will be dealt a hand instantly and the moment you exit a hand, you will be dealt another. This way you will be able to play a lot more hands than usual. If you feel that you have a bad hand and you want to quit, then you can choose to use the quick fold option, this will move you instantly to the another hand before the action even gets to you.

Based on this variant, Full Tilt announced Adrenaline Rush a version of the Rush Poker format last week. This new game uses a combination of the quick fold from Rush poker with tables containing short hands and shallow stacks to give you the fastest poker game ever. The Adrenaline Rush game includes a four handed betting capped at an equivalent of 10 big blinds. Most of the betting will take place pre flop and as a result the players will either get to raise of simply fold.

Adrenaline Rush also includes some features from Rush poker such as the Quick Fold and the Raise Max option that add extra pace to the game. The quick fold works exactly like with Rush Poker and takes you immediately to the next new table. The Max Raise will instantly raise to the largest amount possible as soon as it is their turn. This provides an incredibly fast paced poker game that is admired by most users at Full Tilt. The head of marketing at Full Tilt Poker, Sarne Loghtman has said that Adrenaline poker is a lot faster than the original Rush Poker and the players can play more hands in an hour and win even more hands and pots while playing against a very large number of players.

Full Tilt Black Card Team

After a competition that raged on for six months, Full Tilt Poker has finally announced 11 winners for the inaugural Black Card Sponsorship Program. The program allows all the eligible members to make the most of a massive winners package according to the terms involved in the program. The Pros chosen for the Black Card Team can choose $20,000 as entries into any of the FTOPS tournaments. They can also use $20,000 as a bonus that can be cleared through Full Tilt Points if they choose not to take part in the tournaments. The professionals will also be awarded a 100% rakeback bonus and they will also be awarded with the powerful “red name status” for six months on Full Tilt Poker’s virtual tables.

To get into the Black Card Team, each professionals had to make their way up to become the top player at any one of the twelve leaderboards on Full Tilt Poker between July and December 2013. The leaderboards at Full Tilt Poker include several poker disciplines such as sit and go’s, adjusted cash game winnings, tournaments and so on. The winner of each category would then be picked to become a part of the Black Card Team. These players will be entitled to all the privileges that are mentioned above. However, to keep their position in the Black Card Team, they will need to defend their position once their tenure is completed. The competition for the next batch has already begun and is likely to continue till the end of April and Full Tilt plans to run the promotion for the Black Card Team Pros three times in a year. Here are the names and categories of the winners of the first Black Card Team.

1. Triviani20 from the NL/PL Hold’em High category with limits of above $1/$2
2. MadSickoHead – PL Omaha Low category with limits below $1/$2
3. Feliceko – PL Omaha High category with limits above $1/$2
4. Moos29 – Heads-Up Ring Games category at all stakes
5. Trickshot625 – Rush Ring Games Low category with limits below $0.5/$1
6. PlayinWitDreams – Rush Ring Games High category with limits above $0.5/$1
7. Stringhawk – Other Ring Games category at all stakes
8. Jasonc6 – Heads-Up SNG category at all stakes
9. XAPJIAMOB – SNG category at all stakes
10. Betong – FTOPS category
11. Silent_one69 – MTT (Multitable tournament) category at all stakes.