But now there’s PokerTracker 3 which, in addition to some new features, has added support for two more leading poker sites: Bodog Poker and Cake Poker.

While pokerbots are making a big stir in the online poker world, far less controversial and more universally loved is software like PokerTracker that helps you play better online poker without actually playing the game for you.

Players at Full Tilt using the software will also enjoy the new support for its Super Turbo Matrix tables and recognition for Heroes. Also improved with the latest update are hand histories for iPoker rooms (like Titan Poker) and better accounting for PokerStars tournament rakes.

That main event caps the Mini-FTOPS XIII series on September 20 at 5 pm ET for a $55 buy-in, following the two-day event, a $266 tourney starting the day before, on September 19 at 1 pm for a $400,000 prize pool.

A $7,500 prize package, including a free entry into every FTOPS XIV event, is up for grabs as well – for whoever tops the leaderboard that’ll be running throughout the series. Prizes will also be awarded to several of other top finishers as well.

Full Tilt still has Mini-FTOPS XIII satellites going on now, daily, up through the start of the series, for buy-ins starting at $0.50 or 50 Full Tilt Points, awarding free seats in various events, including the main event.

Judge Laura Swain determined that the Government (in the form of the FBI) did not produce enough evidence to merit her allowing those records to remain sealed. This is a big courtroom victory for online poker in a time when it is direly needed. And it bodes well for the affected players receiving back all of the money wrongfully taken from them.

The tournament itself has a $535 buy-in, but players can satellite in throughout the month, with buy-ins for $1M Monthly Guarantee satellites at 50 Full Tilt Points or $1 and up.

If you win more than one satellite, all those after your first land you $535.

Full Tilt is running multiple ongoing 4 player, 9 player, 36 player, and 54 player Sit ‘n Gos daily, as well as schedule tournaments every few minutes throughout the day. All at a wide array of buy-ins.

And here’s a nice bonus: the $1M Full Tilt Monthly Guarantee Tournament Satellite Challenge, a side-bet of sorts. Just keep winning those satellites and climb up the leaderboard. Whoever ends the month atop the leaderboard for the most number of $1,000,000 Monthly Guarantee Satellites won, wins $1,000. Second gets $500.

The list of prohibited software includes poker bots, table selection software, odds calculators, data mining programs, and hand history compilers (though Full Tilt does now offer its own in-table Hand Replayer). Player are also not allowed to visit websites that tell them any pertinent information about a particular opponent while they are seated at a table (presumably against that opponent). Being caught using any of these programs is cause for termination of one’s Full Tilt Poker account and the possible seizure of funds from your FullTilt bankroll.

On the flip side, permitted at Full Tilt are poker instructional programs as long as you upload only your own histories and no shared histories. Same with Heads-Up Displays, so long as it’s only using data that you have compiled on your own.

And one exception to the odds-calculator prohibition are those that don’t just run constantly, automatically during live play, but require you enter in a specific situation in order to get your result.

For more info on Full Tilt read our favorite Full Tilt Poker Review.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series 12 has just ended and the players, of course, are happy as ever. The FullTilt Poker operators? Not so much. Just look at the main event, for one…

The FTOPS XII main event had a scant 4,581 players paying the $500 + $35, bringing the prize pool to about $2.3 million. Only problem is, the guarantee was $2.5 million, so Full Tilt had to cover the remaining $200,000 from their “profits”. With only $160,000 raked in from the $35 entry fees, Full Tilt took an over $40,000 loss on this event.