On Friday, players on Full Tilt Poker, the world’s second largest online poker site, will once again be able to compete in Sit and Go Madness. The 48-hour promotion kicks off at 16:00 ET and runs through Sunday.
Only sit and gos highlighted in green in the Full Tilt Poker lobby are eligible for the promotion and the one-table contests are broken up into four groups. Group A consists of sit and gos with $1 to $2 buy-ins, Group B encompasses sit and gos with $5 to $11 buy-ins, Group C consists of sit and gos with $20 to $33 buy-ins, and Group D is composed of high-dollar sit and gos with $50 to $110 buy-ins.
The 48-hour Sit and Go Madness promotion is divided into 24 two-hour time blocks. During each period, the top seven players on each group’s leaderboard will walk away with cash prizes ranging from $1 to $500. The first two-hour period begins at 16:00 ET on Friday, December 4th and the final events of Sit and Go Madness will take place at 16:00 ET on Sunday, December 6th. The top prizes every two hours vary between $20 and $500.
In addition to the hourly leaderboards, an Overall Leaderboard for each group will also be kept. These include the top performances, points-wise, over the two-hour time blocks. Full Tilt Poker candidly explains, “So even if you put up a high score in one of the two-hour blocks, it pays to keep trying to best your score.” The top two players in each group’s overall leaderboard will move on to the $5,000 Sit and Go Freeroll, where the top three finishers will walk away with prize money. The freeroll takes place on Saturday, December 12th at 15:05 ET and will feature a field of eight players.
Also taking place on Saturday, December 12th is the $50,000 Madness Freeroll. The only way for players to win their way into this freebie is by taking down two sit and gos during the 48-hour promotion. Two-time winners will automatically be entered to win their share of $50,000 and the top payout is estimated to be around $5,000, or one-tenth of the purse. The Madness Freeroll encourages repeat play until two victories are obtained and can be found in the Tournament lobby of Full Tilt Poker.
The final component of Sit and Go Madness is the wildly popular Madness Raffle. The grand prize up for grabs is a posh Full Tilt Poker Deluxe Home Game Package, which consists of a freestanding poker table, 500-piece chipset, and two leather card cases. A total of 10 players in the Raffle will claim 500 T$ and another 25 will take home 200 T$. Seventy-five Raffle winners will receive $75 Satellite Tokens, while 100 other winners will receive $26 Satellite Tokens. Nine-hundred Full Tilt Poker shirts and hats will also be given out, for over 1,000 prizes total.
To hunt down qualifying sit and gos during the promotional period, open the Full Tilt Poker client and click on “Sit & Go” and then “1-Table.” Remember, Sit and Go Madness tables are highlighted in green. All sit and go results count for the hour in which the event began.
According to PokerScout.com, Full Tilt Poker has seen its traffic grow by 25% over the last four weeks thanks in part to its Holiday Hundred bonus promotion, which ends on December 6th. Its annual growth rate tops 125% and the site is the second largest worldwide with a seven-day running average of 18,600 real money ring game players. During its peak hours, which occur in the evening throughout the United States, over 30,000 cash game players call Full Tilt Poker home. The site happily accepts U.S. action.