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Full Tilt Poker is getting ready to kick it old school on February 15th. Starting this coming Sunday and running through the next, Full Tilt is hosting the Full Tilt Classic. The sixteen event tournament series dispatches with all the multi-entry bullshit that has been increasing in popularity and gets back to the basics: the freezeout tourney.

It’s as simple as that. Every tournament in the Full Tilt Classic is a freezeout. No re-entries, no re-buys, no add-ons. Lose all your chips and you’re done. You don’t get a second chance. Now, Full Tilt Poker hasn’t gone totally vanilla, as there is still a wide variety of games represented next week: Hold’em, Triple Draw, Omaha, and Razz will all be on display. But no reaching into your pocket for second and third bullets. That’s the key point here.

The schedule setup is fairly interesting, too. There are two tournaments each day, both with the same buy-in, though the games differ. The buy-ins start at just fifty cents, but then increase each day until February 22nd, when the buy-ins for the $200,000 guaranteed Main Event and the Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max Event are $100. One of the tournaments each day is a No-Limit Hold’em event, while the other is some other poker variation.

Full Tilt is also running a few minor promotions in conjunction with the Classic. Every time a player participates in a Full Tilt Classic event, he will earn a ticket into a Full Tilt Classic Freeroll. There are two Freerolls each day starting February 15th: the Classic Hold’em Freeroll and Classic Freeroll. The former is for players who earned a ticket in the previous day’s Hold’em event, while the latter is for those who earned it in the other, non-Hold’em event. Each freeroll will pay out from five to 200 tournament tickets.

One thing you might be thinking at this point is, “But if the Freerolls start on the 15th and the tournament series starts on the 15th, how can someone win a ticket into one of the first two freerolls?”

Good question. I was confused about that at first, too. To earn a ticket into the first day’s Freerolls, just earn at least one Full Tilt Point in the seven days prior to the event.

There are also satellites for the Full Tilt Classic events and they come with their own promo. In any given event, those who satellite into the event are automatically entered into a “last longer” competition. Of those players, the one who makes it the farthest in the tourney (hence “last longer”) wins a ticket into the Full Tilt Poker Classic Main Event.

Full Tilt Poker is also holding a parallel Full Tilt Classic Play Chip Series of those who don’t want to try their hand at real money poker.

The entire eight-day Full Tilt Classic schedule can be found here.

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