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Deposit Bonus

Full Tilt: Get a 100% bonus up to $600 at Full Tilt Poker when you sign up and make your first deposit. Increments of 10% of your initial deposit, or $20 (whichever comes first), will be credited to your account upon meeting clearing requirements. For every one Full Tilt Point you earn playing real money cash games and tournaments, you’ll earn $0.06 of your bonus. This bonus is good for 120 days.

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Bodog: Bodog Poker offers a 110% Match Sign Up Bonus worth $500, and the first 10% is immediately credited to you with no strings attached. The remaining balance of your bonus will be rewarded to you at the rate of $1 per 3 Bodog Points you earn playing real money cash games and tournament poker at Bodog. If you are playing in a different currency, your bonus will clear at the following rates: €1 per 5 Bodog Points; £1 per 6 Bodog Points; and 1 Rand per 0.5 Bodog Points. This bonus expires in 30 days.

Verdict: While Full Tilt offers a larger poker bonus, the instant, no-clear 10% available at Bodog is very enticing, especially if you tend to not clear your bonus within the allotted time frame.

Promotions

Full Tilt: Full Tilt promotions range from guaranteed tournaments that payout in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and big-money competitions to special satellites and other exclusive events. They also host the popular FTOPS, a.k.a. Full Tilt Online Poker Series, which also parallels the lower-stakes mini-FTOPS.

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Bodog: Promotions at Bodog include static promos like the Bad Beat Bonus and the Royal Flush Bonus, in addition to freerolls, guaranteed cash tournaments, reload bonuses, and other player competitions. This club’s exclusive event is the Bodog Poker Open.

Verdict: Full Tilt is a bigger poker club; therefore, there is going to be a lot more promotions available at any given time. However, Bodog holds its own with prestigious satellite events and other engaging, big-money promotions.

Software

Full Tilt: Full Tilt offers a multi-lingual platform with optimized graphics and exceptional customization options. This is a good club for multi-tabling, as you can play on up to 15 tables simultaneously. Full Tilt is on the cutting-edge of the industry, and they come out with features and new tournament formats frequently more than other poker rooms. They pretty much set the bar.

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Bodog: Bodog also offers a very customizable platform.

Verdict: Both Full Tilt and Bodog offer players a unique gaming platform that is constantly being updated and upgraded to suit the changing needs of online players. Additionally, both applications support Mac users, and while both rooms feature multi-tabling, Full Tilt offers more simultaneous tables, but Bodog’s multi-tabling software is much more functional.

Tournaments

Full Tilt: Full Tilt’s Big Money Sunday consists of the $750K Sunday Guarantee with a buy-in of $216 and the monthly $1 Million Guaranteed with a buy-in of $535. Other Sunday events include the $350K Knockout Bounty and the $200K Sunday Mulligan. In addition, there are hundreds of guaranteed tourneys running round the clock at Full Tilt Poker in a wide range of formats.

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Bodog: The biggest weekly guaranteed tournament at Bodog Poker is the $100K Guaranteed with a $162 buy-in. There are also multiple other big-money tourneys at Bodog available in a wide range of formats.

Verdict: Again, Full Tilt is a bigger poker room; therefore, they offer more tournaments with bigger prize pools. Bodog does, though, offer plenty of events to support its ever-growing player base.

Games

Full Tilt: Texas Hold ‘em, Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo, Stud Poker, Stud Hi/Lo, Razz, and many mixed games such as HORSE, HOSE, HO, HA, HOE, HEROS, SE, OA, and OE.

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Bodog: Texas Hold ‘em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Stud, Stud Hi/Lo, and 5 Card Stud; no mixed games.

Verdict: If you are into mixed games, Full Tilt is the place to be, hands down.

Points

Full Tilt: Full Tilt awards loyal players with 1 Full Tilt Point (FTP) for each $1 in raked hands played and 7 FTPs for each $1 in tournament fees paid. You will also have the opportunity at Full Tilt to earn double or triple points during Happy Hour events. FTPs are redeemable for merchandise and tourney buy-ins only; they offer no cash back incentive.

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Bodog: One of the benefits of joining a mid-size online poker room is that they don’t have too many players to handle, but they have enough to offer some pretty comprehensive rewards systems, as is true at Bodog. The Bodog Point rewards system is one of the best in the business. You’ll get up to 1 point for raked hands in cash games and 3 points for every $1 in tourney fees you pay. You will also get additional points, up to 500 per month, for the time you put into your online poker game at Bodog. You can use points at Bodog to buy-in to tournaments, or redeem them for cash money.

Verdict: You can have a rewarding online poker experience at Full Tilt in terms of loyalty rewards; however, Bodog just can’t be beat in this area.

Traffic

Full Tilt: ±70,000 players on ±20,000 tables with an average of 4,000 tournaments running during peak hours

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Bodog: ±4,000 players

Verdict: This totally depends on the type of online poker you prefer. If you like being a small fish in a big sea, Full Tilt is perfect for you. On the other hand, if you prefer being a big fish in a small sea, Bodog is a great small to medium size online poker room.

Rake

Full Tilt: Max cap of $3 in rake collected.

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Bodog: Max cap of $3.

Verdict: Both Full Tilt and Bodog have very similar rake structures, as they both operate on contributed rake formats that are, for the most part, parallel.

Rakeback

Full Tilt: 27% rakeback

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Bodog: None offered.

Verdict: If you want rakeback, go with FullTilt. Bodog offers cash back on player points, though, which might make you feel better about going with Bodog.

Deposit Options

Full Tilt: VISA and MasterCard, Click2Pay, Instant e-checks, and Cash Transfer

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Bodog: Credit cards, NETeller, PaySafeCard, Click2Pay, moneybookers, eWalletXpress, and Speedcard

Verdict: Bodog offers more options; whereas, Full Tilt’s options are optimal for US players.

Support

Full Tilt: 24/7 email

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Bodog: Email form via website, live chat, and toll-free telephone support.

Verdict: If you want to join an online poker room with greater access to support departments, join Bodog. Full Tilt’s support department is adequate, but there are a lot more players to address.