Titanpoker.com, among the best online poker rooms on the Internet, unleashed the All-In Winter competition around a month ago. The best thing about this promotion is that it includes everyone, including the ring game enthusiasts and the tournament advocates. And if you like freerolls, you have something to look forward to, as well!
Players that use the Titan Poker bonus code this winter will be able to participate in the Cash Tables Races. The goal is to basically produce as much rake as possible by playing as much as possible. The players that pay the most rake rank the highest on the leaderboards. Stakes $1/$2 and higher show up on the High Binds leaderboard, and the Low Blinds leaderboard is for everyone that plays less than $1/$2.
You are about to see why Titan is one of the top Texas Holdem sites online – they give out tons of cash during their promos. Every week the High Blinds leaderboard has $7k available for its winners, and 1st place receives $1k. Similarly, there is $3k available for the Low Blinds leaderboard, with 1st place receiving $425.
The Titan Poker download also has a competition for Sit-n-Go players. The promo for Sit-n-Go’s also has two different leaderboards and is also based on rake paid. There is $6,000 available for the High leaderboard, and the Low leaderboard has a prize pool of $2,000.
If you are new to money poker sites and therefore your bankroll is limited, you should know about the special freerolls taking place on January and February 11th. Each freeroll has a $10k prize pool!
Last but not least, let’s discuss the promotion available for tournament players. Forget about that Blackjack download because you will be inspired to play as many MTTs as you can handle on Titan. This leaderboard has an incredible $50k prize pool, and the winner also receives a package for live events worth $14k!
Whatever your game is, good luck on those leaderboards!
01/03/2011
Titanpoker's All-In Winter
12/15/2010
Titanpoker VIP Program
Titan Poker claims to have one of the best online poker rewards programs on the Internet today. If you like collecting points and saving for huge cash bonuses, there is a high chance you will agree with them. Today I will talk about the act of collecting points, and then I will talk about trading in the points for some great rewards.
Collecting points on the Titanpoker download is straightforward, especially if you are a tournament player. Tournaments give 17 points for every $1 in tournament fees paid. So if you play a $10+$1 buy-in, you will receive 17 points.
The points earned in a cash game depends on the rake taken in a given pot. If you used a Titan Poker bonus code, this will matter a lot to you because you need to collect points to earn your bonus. You will need to see the Titan Poker website for a full chart, but here are some numbers to get an idea: $0.06 rake would net you 0.3 points, $0.76 would net you 4 points, and $4.25 would net you 24 points.
Similar to the VIP program on the PokerStars download, there are VIP rankings that provide points multipliers. For example, earning 1k points in one month would move you from VIP Bronze to VIP Silver and give a 20% points boost. The highest level is VIP Diamond. You must earn 35k points every month to reach Diamond, and the reward is a 120% points boost.
When it comes time to trade your points in for cash, it pays to wait. This is because unlike the Everest Poker download, the points required for one bonus dollar decreases when you cash in more points at once. One end of the spectrum has you paying 2,000 points for $10 and the other end has you paying 7 million points for $120k. That’s a difference of 142 points/dollar!
All the best Euro poker sites have rakeback or VIP programs, and it is up to you to decide which one best suits your playing style. For more reasons to play at Titan Poker, be sure to read my previous two entries.
11/25/2010
Titanpoker Interface
Last time I wrote that Titan Poker is among the best online poker sites online today. In my next two entries I intend on telling you more reasons why. Today I will describe the program itself and my next entry will talk about their VIP program.
When you use the Titanpoker bonus code, you get a beautiful 3D layout and animated dealers that actually speak when someone calls, folds, or raises. This is a great way to feel more involved in your poker game. The chat bar can be moved according to your preferences, or you can just get rid of it completely. Additionally, you can choose to have all chat, summaries, dealer, or just player chat. Since chat can be annoying to some players but great to others, this really gives you the chance to have exactly what you want. You get to pick your own avatar as well, but unlike when you download PokerStars, you are not able to upload your own image. You can choose to have the option “all-in” removed and also have a warning displayed for a large all-in bet, a great feature for preventing misclicks. If you are a control freak, the customized options should make you very happy.
When you are playing poker, each table opens up a new window. If you have a lot of experience in online poker rooms, you likely prefer to multi-table. To help out, there is a Mini Table feature that automatically tiles on your screen based on resolution. This should help you multi-table like a pro!
If you want to see hand histories, they are laid out quite nicely in a graphic format. If you are a fan of the PokerStars download, though, you might dislike the graphic hand histories and wish they just came in text.
The software team recently came out with a flash version of their site so that Mac users can play on their site, too. So now even flash Texas Holdem advocates have something good to say about Titan!
11/08/2010
Titanpoker Review
Titanpoker is on the list as one of the best online poker sites on the Internet today. As a member of iPoker they share the same players as VC Poker, Fair Poker and other sites. Americans will be disappointed to know that they are not one of the US poker sites available at this time. TitanPoker uses Playtech’s industry leading software and therefore the interface is well run and great to look at.
Titan Poker is one of the top Texas Holdem sites online, but you will also have the option to sit at Omaha and Stud tables. They offer all of these as heads-up games from $0.02/$0.04 up to $300/$600. The MTT poker fans with find plenty of options and many of them have guaranteed prize pools. If you are new to the site, you get to enter the $20,000 New Depositors Freeroll, a perk that is not offered when you use a PokerStars bonus code. There are often players who sign up for the tournament but forget to play it, so it can turn out to be an easy money-making gem for those that remember it.
A lot of players enjoy the SnGs on their Titanpoker download. You can play as low as $0.10+$0.02 and as high as $5,000+$200. At any given time there can be hundreds of people either playing or waiting to play SnGs. Fans of American poker online will point out that the best US poker sites have way more SnG players than this. That being said, only the mass multi-tablers will run out of games to play in this room.
If you intend on playing MTTs after using your Titanpoker bonus code, you will find the traffic pretty good. Scheduled tournaments usually have great turnout and occasionally leave some overlay. They offer an excellent range of game types and buy-in amounts. Buy-ins start at $0 and go up to $160 + $12. They also have a lot of invitational events for VIP players. Are you reconsidering your PartyPoker bonus code now? Don’t toss it out yet, but definitely consider Titanpoker before making a decision!
10/23/2010
Everest Poker Rakeback 2
(Continued from last entry)
The Death Zone – The benefits from the Death Zone should please even the best online poker players. You need 30k SPs to get into the Death Zone, and the SP multiplier at this level is 700%. The maximum cash bonus allowed every month increases to $2,000. If you refer a friend to the site, your bonus increases to $200. Aside from the monthly $10k event, you also get to compete in a $25k freeroll. It is nice to see that even the best Euro poker sites feel a need to give back to their players with freerolls. Aside from your personalized customer support, you now get personalized service for brick-and-mortar tourney registration and can trade SPs for live tourney buy-ins. You will receive the benefits from this level for three months.
The Summit – If you dream of being the top player on the Everest Poker download, you will want to be in the Summit. You become a Summit player, the highest VIP level, after you have collected 50,000 or more monthly SPs. As a reward for their hard efforts, these players have their SP bonus rate increased to 750%. You can earn a maximum of $5,000 every month for converting Summit Points. Everything else to this VIP level is the same as in the Death Zone, and the perks stick around for an entire 3 months. This is better than the 1 month you usually get when you download PokerStars.
Please note: the bonus SPs do not affect your VIP level. As with VIP programs on most US friendly poker sites, you only move up in VIP levels with non-bonus SPs. There is a nice points calculator on their website which estimates the amount of points you will earn based on hands played, game type, and limit. Using the calculator determines that playing 50k hands/month at short-handed $200NL is enough to get you into the Death Zone. Taking into account the top VIP levels on some casinos for USA players, this is not so bad. And don’t forget that you get even more SPs from your multipliers!
In order to trade for cash bonuses, you need to fork over 250 times the Summit Points. For example, $200 would cost 50k SPs. As this does not change when your VIP level increases, you might think it would be worth playing at other money poker sites. It is important to remember that higher VIP levels means huge SP multipliers, however. If you can play a lot of hands, Everest Poker’s VIP program provides a large amount of rakeback. Prior to using a PartyPoker bonus code, definitely give Everest a hard look.
10/09/2010
Everest Poker Rakeback
Today I will continue with my Everest Poker discussion, this time focusing on one of the best online poker VIP programs. When you play real cash games, you earn Summit Points (SP). When you reach the highest VIP levels, you can get up to $5k/month in cash bonuses as well as an SP multiplier of 750%. This yields up to 50% in rakeback!
You have to enroll yourself in the VIP Summit Club to participate, unlike when you use a Full Tilt Poker bonus code. To do this, go to “My Account” and click on the VIP Summit Club button.
I think it is time for me to tell you what can you get for all your hard work at the tables! I will now list the VIP level and their benefits.
Base Camp – You reach the tier level 1, Base Camp, once you collect 500 or more monthly Summit Points on your Everest Poker download. The first thing you receive is a 250% bonus multiplier for all the SPs you earn. For instance, if you get 100 SPs one day, you will get an extra 250 SPs as a bonus. If you have too many SPs and want to actually get something for them, why not trade them in for cash? You can get $50 for 12,500 SPs. If you refer a friend, your bonus increases to $50, and you get tickets into the weekly $1k freeroll. Similar to the PokerStars rakeback program, you get the benefits for each Camp level for a month.
Camp I – You will be put into Camp I once you collect at least 3,000 SPs in one month on this download free poker site. The Summit Points bonus multiplier at this level is 500%, which means for every 1 SP you collect, you will receive an additional 5. For 62,500 SPs, you can get up to $250 in bonus cash. The other benefits from Base Camp also remain.
Camp II – If you want to become a member of Camp II, you will need to earn a minimum of 10k SPs on Everest, one of the best Euro poker sites around. Your SP multiplier increases to 600% at this level. The bonus cash increases to a whopping $750 in exchange for 187,000 SPs. Your other benefits improve even more at this VIP level, and you will be happy to learn that they beat many of the benefits found in casinos for USA players. Now you have access to priority customer service, you can play a $10k monthly freeroll, and if you refer a friend, you get $100.
Camp III – If you want to get into Camp III, you need to earn at least 20k SPs every month. You will earn a bonus of 650% on all summit points. When you exchange SPs for cash rewards, you can earn up to $1k, more than a lot of the best Mac poker sites give you every month. You will have to exchange 250k SPs to get the $1,000 bonus. And, as expected, all the Camp II benefits stick around.
I will finish describing the VIP program in the next entry. Have a good day!
09/25/2010
Everest Poker Software
Last entry we discussed Everest Poker, which is considered one of the best online poker rooms for those new to poker. For this next entry, I would like to explain the pros and cons of its interface.
Like I said last time, the weakest aspect of an Everest Poker download is the huge amount of memory required by the program when playing tables on the site. However, let's consider some of the other aspects of the site.
Players have come to expect easy navigation on top Texas Hold'em sites, and no one will be disappointed with the menus on Everest. You can choose to search through the various games employing a tabbed navigation system, or there is a way to customize the menus to show only the stakes of your choice. Once you figure out which method you like best, you should have no problems finding exactly what you need.
Many players agree that the key benefit of being able to download free poker is the ability to play multiple tables at once. Like many of the best sites, Everest offers resizable tables, but they also give you a feature that not many sites offer: you can choose to size the tables to four different resolutions. Those resolutions are 640x480, 800x600, 1024x728, and 1280x960. When you consider resizable tables and resolution choices, you have to admit that Everest has jumped ahead of other money poker sites in this aspect.
In the end, though, the memory problem is still a big one. To come even close to a Full Tilt Poker download, they at least need to provide the option of reducing graphics at the tables. There is an option to remove table animations, but this does little to combat the problem.
If you would prefer to wait for Everest to give their software an overhaul before trying it out, there are countless other rooms to choose from. If you are interested in having lots of tables to choose from, you can always play at PokerStars. Al descargar PokerStars entras en el mundo del póquer de verdad. Con cientos de miles de jugadores, los mejores torneos y los mejores profesionales. Good luck at the tables!
09/08/2010
Everest Poker Review
Limit stakes are listed more sensibly, and they start at $0.02 - $0.04 and go up to $50 - $100. As you can see, those hoping to play blinds higher than $100 will be slightly disappointed. Sit and Go's can be entered for as little as $0.04 + $0.01 and as high as $500 + $30. Like Tiger Gaming, Everest Poker is not available as one of the US poker sites. If you live in Russia or China, you are also unable to play on the site.
Everest Poker has expanded considerably since coming into the poker world, and it is their goal to be considered among the best online poker sites available. Surprisingly, they are on their own independent network, the Everest Network. Where traffic is concerned, the Everest Network has the 6th most players on the Internet today. If you’re a new player looking to build a bankroll, this room is a solid starting point.
As with all sites, there are still a few downsides. One downside is that only Holdem and Omaha are offered. This is strange considering that a lot of the other money poker sites these days feature at least some Stud varieties. Also, unless you have a newer computer, you may find yourself getting irritated as the software uses a fair amount of memory. When it’s all said and done, however, there is a good chance you'll encounter a lot more good than bad when grinding on an Everest Poker download.
08/15/2010
Tiger Gaming Software
Instant hand histories have finally arrived at the Tiger Gaming tables. People that like multi-tabling will be pleased to know that you can now play up to 30 tables at once, and the tables are even resizable. And if you like stats but don’t use a HUD, you can even view some basic stats at your tables.
When you are at the table and the action hasn’t reached you yet, you have the option to use advance action commands. One thing I noted was that unlike many other download free poker sites, the No Limit games do not have two common advance action options: "call any" and "raise any". This is very nice because these buttons can be very dangerous in No Limit if they get hit by mistake.
Tiger Gaming’s chat interface has the option of showing dealer chat, player chat, both, or neither. And like top sites such as a Full Tilt Poker download, there is also a four color deck available which helps multi-tabling and prevents the "Oh my God I just went all in and I don't have the flush I thought I did" moments.
One odd feature of the software is that when you make a bet, you can either bet the minimum amount or you have to press the "bet other/raise other" button. You will then get a pop up with the option to adjust your bet size accordingly. While it sounds like an annoying extra step, it’s actually not bad, although some may not like the fact it is automatically set to bet the pot. It’s true that this can be annoying, but it can also benefit you. On a PokerStars download (where there is no bet pot button), a guy might bet three or four dollars into a ten dollar pot, but at Tiger many people just bet pot because it is very quick to do so. This is annoying in situations where you are drawing since pot sized bets usually don’t give correct odds. There are times, however, when pot sized bets are not optimal, and this is when it’s beneficial for you.
Another difference from many other money poker sites is that players are able to take money off the table at any time by simply leaving the table, and then they can sit down at the same table with less money immediately afterwards. Many players greatly disapprove of sites that allow this since “ratholing” is heavily frowned upon. Tiger also has different maximums and minimums at their cash game tables. While most sites feature 10 or 20BB minimums, Tiger has 40-50BB minimums. Many people will enjoy this as short stackers are usually disliked and are better off playing free bet sportsbooks (as you can see, I am biased).
I hope this review of the Tiger Gaming interface has helped you decide whether to play there. While Tiger isn’t the best site online, it is at least superior to playing with Bingo codes. Thanks for reading my blog today – I’ll be back later this month or early next month.
08/09/2010
Tiger Gaming Review
Tiger Gaming is a nice site with pleasing graphics and a clean interface. There is a large deposit bonus to earn and you will find the customer support quite accommodating. Tiger Gaming is unique in that it offers a number of special games that you won’t find in any other poker room. These include the "poker" game of Guts (very loosely called poker), the classic card game Big 2, as well as Chinese Poker and Pan. This isn’t a casino so there’s no blackjack download here, but the other games are so fun that you won’t want to waste your time with casino games anymore.
In addition to the unique games mentioned, Tiger Gaming has Texas Hold’em in both No Limit and 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 airing on TSN, Rogers Sportsnet and The Score. Presumably they considered Canada full of potential poker players. Because of this, many of the players on the site are Canadian, and they don’t have lot of experience at the game.
Traffic can be bad at times, especially at 50NL+ and 1/2+. If you’re new to money poker sites, though, finding a table at $2 NL up to $25 NL is usually very easy. You will usually have three to six 25NL tables to choose from, for example. Finding a NL50 table is harder. You’ll be lucky to have two 50NL tables to choose from. Finding no-limit games higher than this is next to impossible. 100NL pretty much never runs, and when it does, there’s only one table. While the site does offer stakes up to $1000NL I have never seen the game actually happen, so players at these stakes will need to go play Daniels Room poker.
I will just go ahead and tell you that the traffic at the other games is pretty awful. 7 Card Stud is offered but it never runs. Omaha is almost as bad. There may be one table of Omaha going on, and it’s usually Pot Limit with 20 cent blinds. If your game of choice is not Texas Holdem, you should instead consider a PokerStars download. As for the exotic games, you’ll almost for sure find them running during peak hours. Since Tiger is the only site you can find games like this, the player base is more reliable. The classic gambling game of Guts often runs two or three tables at once, with minimum bets of between 10 and 50 cents.
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 a beginner at the game, you should first build a 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.
