On April 15, 2011 Full Tilt Poker blocked real money games for USA players. It is a fact that if you are from the United States and try to access the cashier or join real money tournaments you will receive the following notifications:

“Important Player Information
We regret to announce that players located within the United States can no longer play for real money on Full Tilt poker. Unfortunately, due to recent actions by the U.S. government, Full Tilt Poker is unable to accept "real money" play from U.S. players at the current time, and this includes any deposits or withdrawals.

Cashier
Players located in the United States will be restricted from withdrawing from Full Tilt poker.

Tournament Registration
We're sorry, but you are not permitted to play in this tournament. ”

They also cancelled several guaranteed tournaments including the Onyx Cup due to the lack of registrations and the number of active players has dropped sharply during the last few weeks. Because of the lack of real money activity while playing at Full Tilt, we recommend trying any of the following FullTilt Poker alternatives for players in the USA, Europe, Asia, and around the world:

Carbon Poker is one of the newer poker sites founded in 2007 and accept players from the all countries including the USA. The number of players has been increased dramatically during the last 6 months unlike other famous sites were the number has decreased. They are part of the Merge Gaming Network and their headquarters are located in Australia. The server is in Canada and they are regulated by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.

CarbonPoker offers a hefty 100% signup bonus up to $600 when you register for the first time. The bonus is paid in $10 increments per 2,500 player points and every hand played can award up to 10 points.

Carbon Poker offers a wide range of Poker Tournaments including Multi Table Tournaments, Sit-and-Go, $1K daily Freerolls, live event satellites with low and medium buy-ins and a monthly $50,000 guaranteed tournament. Many of the players in these tournaments are new or still learning so the chances of winning for an experienced player are much better than any other established site.

Cake Poker was established in 2004 by a group of professional poker players that wanted to make a better poker software than what was available at that moment. The software runs on their own network called Cake Network and they are based in the Netherlands Antilles. It is currently the 3rd most visited room by players in the USA and because of this; their player base has been increasing steadily year after year.

Cake Poker offers a solid 110% deposit bonus up to $600 for new players registered through this site, they also offer several reload offers per year to their frequent players.

They have an average of 3,000 players sitting on the tables any time of the day, the competition level is lower than most sites and you will find hundreds of new players every week. The tables with the most action are N/L Texas Holdem and Omaha, on these rooms you will not have to wait to find a seat or opponents to play against. Cake poker is famous for running satellites for the Aussie Millions and guaranteed tournaments every week. The buy-ins range anywhere from $0.10 to $100 and they also offer freerolls tournaments every week, the largest being the $1 Million tournament.