This the season to be jolly, or at least that is what many of the online poker sites seem to be thinking these days. Full Tilt Poker has joined in the year-end promotions by extending Happy Hour for short-handed tables throughout the months of December and January. Not only can players take advantage of this promotion, but the really good news is that it synergizes nicely with the normal Happy Hour promotions that Full Tilt Poker has going on.

Players adept at short-handed play will certainly benefit from this extended promotion and players interested in getting involved with short-handed play will likely never encounter a better opportunity than the one that is staring back at them right now. The promotion has already started and it will continue until midnight ET on January 31, 2011.

In order for players to actually qualify for the promotion, they need to be sitting at a table that has actually been playing short-handed. For players that are playing at tables with six places, short-handed play occurs amongst 3 or less players. That number increases to 4 for tables with eight places and 5 for tables with nine places. Playing at these tables during the next two months will garner the double FTP bonus that normally comes with Happy Hour promotions.

However, the synergy between Happy Hour promotions can help players because normal promotions will still be ongoing throughout this period of time. If you take a seat at a normal Happy Hour table (the ones that have yellow happy faces next to them) and start playing short-handed poker on that table, you can actually earn three times the number of Full Tilt Points that you would normally earn instead of the normal double bonus. Therefore, now is definitely as good a time as you’ll ever get to start getting good at this very specific online poker skill.

Full Tilt Points represent the lifeblood of the loyalty program at Full Tilt Poker and can be used for anything from tournament entry to merchandise purchase. They are definitely worth having, especially if you’d like to save up to buy something significant.