Full Tilt Poker is an online poker site famous for offering promotional entry into different freeroll tournaments and it is for that reason that some of the biggest live tournaments around have satellite tournaments emptying into them from this online poker site.

A good example of this is the Bay 101 Shooting Star, a tournament that actually has achieved fame around the world as being the biggest live poker tournament in the bounty category. Bounties are amounts of money placed on the heads of people that are then awarded to the people that knock them out of the tournament. The great thing about the Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament is that everyone has a bounty placed on their head and that means that even if you are only able to knock one person out of the tournament, you will leave the money with some cash.

One aspect of a bounty tournament that is really attractive to people that like playing aggressively is the fact that it is actually possible to recoup any money invested by knocking others out of the tournament. It is possible to make a profit at bounty tournaments without actually cashing and for people that like to go big or go home, tournaments like the Bay 101 Shooting Star are really appealing.

Full Tilt Poker understands this and that is why they have started allowing tournaments to be hosted on their site in satellite formats. Each satellite tournament marked as a Direct Qualifier will allow the winner to claim a $12,000 prize package that will consist of a seat at the table plus all of the usual trimmings. Direct Qualifier tournaments happen on Tuesdays for a $322 buy-in, Thursdays for a $1060 buy-in and Sundays for a $640 buy-in.

Those are all large monetary amounts and that is why Full Tilt Poker also offers smaller super satellite tournaments for as little as $17 that will allow players to attempt to play their way into a Direct Qualifier tournament and eventually onto the actual roster list for the Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament in San Francisco next year.