Full Tilt Poker Sit & Go Madness August 27-29, 2010

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Full Tilt Poker brings back their popular Sit & Go Madness this weekend. This promotion has many ways to win prizes and cash. Find the green colored single table Sit & Go tables in the software and shoot for your preferred part of the promotion. The most appealing of these would probably have to be The Madness Freeroll. A $50,000 freeroll! To get in the freeroll just win two green Sit & Go games. Grinders will surely be taking shots at the leaderboards at all levels and they will like their raffle chances as well. But competent casual Sit & Go players should be able to win their way into the Madness Freeroll as well as maybe get lucky in the raffle. So grinder, or recreational player, this promotion has something for everyone.

Time for 48 hours of Madness.
Take part in Sit & Go Madness to win your share of more than $125,000 in cash and prizes – including entry to the $50K Madness Freeroll – just by playing your favorite single-table Sit & Gos.

The more Sit & Gos you play during the 48 hours of Madness, the more chance you have to win cash and prizes.

The action kicks off at 16:00 ET on Friday, August 27th and runs through 16:00 ET on Sunday, August 29th. Play your favorite Sit & Gos to win your cut of Leaderboard prize money, tickets to the Madness Raffle and entry to the Madness Freeroll, where you’ll play for your share of a $50,000 prize pool.

The Method to Our Madness

To participate in Sit & Go Madness, look for Sit & Gos highlighted in green. Buy-ins for these tournaments are broken into four separate groups, as shown below:



The 48 hours of Sit & Go Madness will be divided into 24, two-hour blocks (e.g., 16:00 ET to 18:00 ET, 18:00 ET to 20:00 ET, and so forth) throughout the weekend with a Leaderboard for each of the four groups during every time period. The top seven players in each group will be paid at the end of every two-hour block:



Overall Leaderboards

There is also an Overall Leaderboard for each group over the entire 48-hour period. The Overall Leaderboard is determined by the best performance in one of the two-hour time periods. There is no cumulative calculation with the Overall Leaderboards.

So, if a player in Group A earns 100 points for the 22:00 ET to 00:00 ET period on Friday and then 150 points for the 00:00 ET to 02:00 ET period on Saturday, it's only the 150 points that will be reflected on the Overall Leaderboard.

The top two players in each group's Overall Leaderboard will meet in a $5K Sit & Go Freeroll where the top three places will be paid. The Freeroll will take place the following weekend - Saturday, September 4th at 15:05 ET. 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 Madness Freeroll

Even if you don't make it onto one of the Sit & Go Madness Leaderboards or win a prize in The Madness Raffle, you still have a chance to walk away a big winner with the $50K Madness Freeroll.

Taking place on Saturday, September 4th at 16:50 ET, earn your entry by winning at least two green Sit & Gos during the 48 hours of Sit & Go Madness. Once you’ve won two Sit & Gos, you’ll receive a Tournament Ticket for the $50K Madness Freeroll, which can be found in the Tournaments lobby of Full Tilt Poker. First place is estimated to be around $5,000, so it pays to keep trying to win at least two Sit & Gos during The Madness.

The Madness Raffle

Because giving away cash just isn't crazy enough, we're going even madder. For every qualifying green Sit & Go that you cash in during Sit & Go Madness (finish in the top three in a nine-player Sit & Go or the top two in a six-player Sit & Go), you'll earn one raffle ticket good for entry into a draw for Steps Tournaments tickets and a selection of exclusive gear from the Full Tilt Store.

There will be more than 1,000 prizes given away in the raffle. See the chart below for a full list of prizes:


How to Register

If you haven't done so already, download the free Full Tilt Poker software and sign up for an account today. Follow these steps to take part in Sit & Go Madness:

Open the Lobby menu at the top of the Full Tilt Poker game lobby and select Choose Lobby View > Standard View.
Set the filters in the browser area to Sit & Go > 1-Table > Hold ‘em > No Limit and Micro, Low, Medium and High.
Find the Sit & Go you'd like to play - Sit & Go Madness tables are highlighted in green.
Click the Register Now button and get ready for The Madness to begin!