Tiger Gaming Review
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Thanks for coming to my new site! I’m a huge fan of online poker, and I will be updating this blog on a regular basis with poker articles. In this post I will discuss Tiger Gaming, one of the sites on Action Poker.

The designers at Tiger Gaming did well to create a site that’s easy to navigate and nice to look at. There is a large deposit bonus to earn and you will find the customer support quite accommodating. Tiger Gaming is unique in that it hosts a few different games that you can’t find in any other poker room. Such games include Chinese Poker (very addictive), Pan, Guts (my favorite), and Big 2 (a classic). You won’t find a blackjack download here, but this will become your site of choice if you enjoy any of the other games.

I haven’t talked about actual poker yet! Tiger Gaming has tables of Limit and No-limit Texas Hold'Em, Omaha and extremely low traffic 7 Card Stud tables.

Tiger Gaming has recently been advertising aggressively in Canada, encouraging consumers to download free poker in commercials airing on TSN, Rogers Sportsnet and The Score. It looks like they thought that Canada is an untapped poker market. The aggressive campaign is still going on and has resulted in a poker site full of Canadians, many of whom really can't play poker well at all.

Traffic can be bad at times, especially at 50NL+ and 1/2+. But if you are a low stakes player just getting started on money poker sites, you should be able to find plenty of action from 2 to 25NL. You will usually have three to six 25NL tables to choose from, for example. If you want to play 50NL, it’ll be a little bit trickier. If you are lucky there will be one open, on rare occasions two tables. And you’d be wasting your time if you want to play even higher than this. Sometimes there will be a NL100 available but very rarely. The site does offer stakes up to $1000NL but I have never seen the game actually happen, so these players will just have to make do with Daniels Room poker instead.

I will just go ahead and tell you that the traffic for the other games is pretty awful. They offer Seven Card Stud tables but nobody, literally nobody, plays them. Omaha is almost as bad. Occasionally there is one table of Omaha running, usually 20PLO. If you enjoy these non-Hold’em games, you should instead consider a PokerStars download. As for the exotic games, you won’t have trouble finding a game during the busy hours. Because Tiger is the only room you can find games like this, the traffic is much better. For example, the game Guts usually has two or three tables going, with minimum bets of between 10 and 50 cents.

If you want to play low stakes on Tiger Gaming, the traffic and games are not bad. If you’re new to poker, you should first increase your bankroll at Tiger and then plan to move to a Full Tilt Poker download when you want to play higher stakes.

Be sure to come back in a couple weeks! I will have a detailed post regarding the interface at Tiger Gaming.