Bonus Codes

October 16th, 2008

As you no doubt know if you’ve found your way to this website, Bonus Codes are now a prominent part of the internet’s structure.

You’re probably here for Full Tilt Bonus Codes in particular, but it doesn’t matter what kind of bonus code your after if you’re talking about the pure theory.  Think about it, when was the last time you checked out at any website, and didn’t at least consider looking for a bonus code to make the final sale cheaper?  Almost every commerce site on the web has a “Coupon code” or a “Bonus Code” field in the checkout process, and I don’t know about you, but my first thought when I see that little word box is: “Oh hell yes!”

A box for a code means the chance at savings, or deals or free shipping, or free jelly beans, or some such, and with all the coupon code collecting sites on the net these days, you usually have a dozen codes to choose from by the time you’re through.  Often times you’ll even find codes with the same function from different websites, with a different alphanumeric output that you’re supposed to enter.  And the best part is that all you have to do them is a simple google search!  Savings and bonuses galore are only one search away, so why ever settle for the regular price at checkout?

Of course I probably don’t need to explain this all to you, I’m preaching to the choir after all.  If you’ve found your way to this site then clearly you love coupon codes too, you probably saw the “referral code” option when signing up at full tilt, and couldn’t help yourself.  within seconds you were bobbing and weaving through google search results, looking for the right code for your sign up (and presumable not taking any codes from shady looking websites, you know the one’s I’m talking about, the ones that look like they were built in 1992 by a 7 year old).

Not that there’s anything wrong witha  7 year old making a website,  if some little tyke is capable of building a website, more power to him!  In fact, maybe they should hire him at those shady bonus code websites, maybe they’d actually get some decent website design that way.

Oh Snap!

What does Full Tilt really mean?

October 16th, 2008

I mean, honestly? 

Let’s start with the basics. 
Tilt is defined in Miriam Websters dictionary as:

1: to cause to have an inclination
2 a: to point or thrust in or as if in a tilt <tilt a lance> b: to charge against <tilt an adversary>intransitive verb1 a: to move or shift so as to lean or incline : slant b: to incline, tend, or become drawn toward an opinion, course of action, or one side of a controversy2 a: to engage in a combat with lances : joust b: to make an impetuous attack <tilt at social evils>

hmm, ok… maybe that’s not exactly the tilt we were talking about.  Let’s skip the dictionary since we mean the modern definition (not that the other definition is incorrect).

Tilt is when under the stress, strain, and pressure of a game, a player begins to play irrationally.  This occurs even amongst experienced players, and it has led many a wise player to the poor house!  All it takes is a few minutes of tilt to ruin the stakes of the entire evening, a few moments can undo hours and hours of work!

This is why most professionals will tell you never to play when you’re feeling anything but your best, and to learn these signs of when you might be heading into tilt.  The best players of course begin to realize this immidiatley and will either focus to regain control of themselves, or remove themselves from the table and the temptation to play dangerously.  Tilt is not your friend!

So why name a website after a term that is the undoing of players everywhere?  Well there are a couple of opinions on the matter.  Most people think that the name provokes a gut reaction from anyone who’s ever played.  They’ve all felt the fiery hand of tilt at one time or another, and calling the website Full Tilt makes them think of the thing that makes the game real, that gives it it’s edge that makes you feel alive when you’re sitting on the knife’s edge between victory and defeat! Whoo! It makes me crazy just writing about it.  So who wouldn’t want to feel that way, who wouldn’t want to feel alive, who wouldn’t want to play at a place called Full Tilt?

Then of course there’s the other argument: that the name full tilt is actually a joke on the players, because ultimately it’s where they’ll end up, playing poorly, and right into the hands of the website.  Would any company be so cruel as to make such a statement openly through their website? I doubt it, but I suppose anything’s possible…