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On Friday, Full Tilt Poker will launch a short promotion called “Take It Down” in which cash game players can win cash prizes for winning cash game hands. Double dipping is fun!

Take It Down will begin when the clock hits midnight ET on Friday, May 9th and will run through the final seconds of Sunday, May 18th. The rules are pretty straightforward. Leaderboard points are earned for every hand won at No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha cash game tables, including the Rush Poker and Adrenaline Rush tables. Hands qualify if they get to a flop and at least three players are dealt into the hand.

Unlike a lot of cash game promotions, though, where more of the good, old Full Tilt Points, are earned based on the rake and a player’s proportional contribution to the pot, the points calculations here are extraordinarily simple. Whenever a player wins a hand, he gets one point for every player who was dealt cards. So, win lots of hands at full tables. Yay.

Well, I suppose there is one catch. Only the best 150-hand run during the day counts. Thus, it doesn’t necessarily pay for this promotion to just grind away all day and night to try to hoard points. Players must do well over a 150-hand stretch. Of course, the more hands one plays, the better a chance there is to have a 150-hand streak that is worthy of being posted on the leaderboard.

There are two leaderboards: Low spans tables with stakes ranging from $0.01/$0.02 to $0.10/$0.25 and High is $0.25/$0.50 and up.

The top 20 finishers on each leaderboard at the end of every day will receive a share of $1,800. The top prize on the Low leaderboard is $100, while that prize (and all of the prizes at the corresponding ranks) is doubled on the High leaderboard.

Additionally, anyone who posts a leaderboard score on two separate days (this score does not have to be in the top 20, we presume) will receive a ticket into the $5K Take It Down Flipout Freeroll, to be held on Sunday, May 25th. This is a multi-entry tournament; players are eligible to sit down five times.

This certainly looks like a promotion designed to get casual players to the cash game tables. The stakes for both leaderboards are low and it does not require hours of grinding. It also requires that the hands go to the flop, which is something recreational players love. They aren’t generally playing online poker to fold; they want action. Plus, on top of everything the freeroll is a Flipout tournament, which is basically the definition of casual player gambling.

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