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Welcome to my blog! I’m a huge fan of online poker, and I will be updating this blog on a regular basis with poker articles. Today I will discuss Tiger Gaming, one of the sites on Action Poker. Note: this site is not open to American players.

Tiger Gaming is a nice site with pleasing graphics and a clean interface. Similar to the PokerStars bonus code, the bonus is generous, and it is not too hard to earn. You should find the customer support quite accommodating when you have a problem. Tiger Gaming is unique in that it hosts some special games that you will not 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 Internet slots 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 offers Texas Hold’em in both No Limit and Limit, Omaha and extremely low traffic 7 Card Stud tables.

Tiger Gaming has opted to focus their advertising in Canada, encouraging consumers to try online poker in commercials on various TV networks. Presumably they considered Canada a good place to recruit players to money poker sites. 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 download free poker sites, you should be able to find plenty of action from 2 to 25NL. It is common for there to be between three and six NL25 tables open and between four and eight NL5 tables. The same can’t be said for finding 50NL tables. You will usually only find one table, maybe two if it’s your lucky day. Finding no-limit games higher than this is next to impossible. 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 download Full Tilt Poker.

I also have to admit that the traffic for games other than Hold’em is quite bad. 7 Card Stud is available for those interested, but its tables remain empty day after day. Omaha is almost as bad. Occasionally there is one table of Omaha running, usually 20PLO. If you prefer these games, it might be better to download PokerStars instead. If we’re talking about the unique games (like Big 2), you won’t have trouble finding a game during the busy hours. Because Tiger is the only site you can find them, the player base is more reliable. For example, the game Guts often can be seen at 2-3 tables at a time, and the minimum bet is usually from 10 to 50 cents.

To sum it up, the player base on Tiger Gaming is okay if you are a lower stakes player, but it’s also nothing to write home about. If you’re new to poker, I would recommend that you increase your bankroll at Tiger and then go ahead and try a Bwin Poker download once you’re ready to move up in stakes.

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