Hello and nice to meet you! Every couple of weeks I will write an article about something related to online poker or US poker sites. For my first entry, I want to talk about Tiger Gaming, one of the sites on Action Poker. Please note that this site is not open to U.S. citizens.
Tiger Gaming is a nice site with pleasing graphics and a clean interface. There is a large deposit bonus to earn and the customer support is helpful. Tiger Gaming is unique in that it offers some different games that you won’t find anywhere else on the internet. These include the "poker" game of Guts (very loosely called poker), the classic card game Big 2, as well as Chinese Poker and Pan. You can’t get a roulette bonus here, but this will become your site of choice if you enjoy any of the other games.
In addition to the unique games mentioned, Tiger Gaming offers Limit and No Limit Holdem, Limit and Pot-limit Omaha and 7 Card Stud (in theory).
Tiger Gaming has recently been advertising aggressively in Canada, telling consumers to download free poker in commercials on various TV networks. I suppose they decided that Canada is an untapped poker market. Because of this, many of the players on the site are Canadian, and they don’t have lot of experience at the game.
Traffic is definitely an issue, especially if you play mid or high stakes. However, if you’ve just gotten into money poker sites and you want to start small, finding a table at $2 NL up to $25 NL is usually very easy. It is common for there to be between three and six NL25 tables open and between four and eight NL5 tables. If you want to play 50NL, it’ll be a little bit trickier. You’ll be lucky to have two 50NL tables to choose from. And you’d be wasting your time if you want to play even higher than this. 100NL pretty much never runs, and when it does, there’s only one table. They offer $1000NL games but I’ve never seen it run, so if you want stakes that high, you should check out a PokerStars download.
I also have to admit that the traffic for games other than Hold’em is quite bad. 7 Card Stud is offered but it never runs. Omaha is almost as bad. Occasionally there is one table of Omaha running, usually 20PLO. If your game of choice is not Texas Holdem, it might be a better choice to go with a Fulltiltpoker download. Regarding the special games like Chinese Poker, at peak hours it is not hard to get a game going. As Tiger is the only site you can find them, the traffic is reasonable. For example, the game Guts usually runs two or three tables at once, with min bets between $0.10 and $0.50.
Overall, the action on Tiger Gaming is not good but if you are a lower stakes player, it is not bad either. If you are just starting out with poker, I would recommend that you increase your bankroll at Tiger and then you can go for a Titanpoker bonus code as soon as you’re ready to try higher buy-ins.
Thanks for reading! Come back in two weeks for another article.
