Just like anything else in life, no two poker sites are the same and how much you like one over the other is dependent on what type of player you are, what you give the most priority to or even what types of poker you enjoy playing.
Having been around since 1999, Tiger Gaming certainly have experience on their side. Experience of running a successful card site, of dealing with customer queries and of constantly working to create a better product.
They’re on the Chico Poker Network, which doesn’t boast the greatest number of players, but seems to be growing and they offer some interesting types of poker, including the rarely seen Chinese Poker. Throw in their famous Bad Beat Jackpots and ground-breaking policy on processing withdrawals and you’ve got yourself a site that marches to the beat of its own drum, which we very much welcome.
Playing at Tiger Gaming has another big advantage. They also have an Online Casino, Live Casino and a Sportsbook so if you enjoy other types of betting, you’ll be able to do them all under one roof.
Poker welcome offers come in all shapes and sizes these days, from deposit bonuses to freerolls to one-off entries into special tournaments. Here it comes in the form of a double-your-money bonus but as ever with poker bonuses, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds.
At Sportsbooks and Casinos, you tend to get your bonus money straight away on making a deposit. Here it works differently. The double-your-money offer, or a 100% bonus as it’s also known, means you can get up to 1,000 AUD paid back to you but you’d have to play a hell of a lot of poker!
That’s because you get 5 AUD for every 50 AUD you pay in rake, so you’d have to be pretty busy at the tables to get anything like the full 1,000 AUD back. A task made even harder by the fact that you only have a maximum of 30 days to receive money paid back as a bonus.
Still, poker welcome offers aren’t meant to be huge gifts like those in sports or casino so the best way of looking at it is to just play normally, and little by little you’ll get money paid back to you. In other words, just think of it as a little bonus. Which of course, it is!
They offer several Weekly Cash Race Leaderboards, divided into preferred stakes. So, you could be on one weekly leaderboard for 0.25/0.50 AUD games and another for 1/2 USD games. The higher the stakes of the games, the bigger the prize pool of that Leaderboard and in addition to cash prizes, finishing in the top places also gives you entry into the Sunday Main Event, which has 150,000 AUD guaranteed. It’s important that players know they have to opt-in by going to Missions/Contests in the poker client.
If nothing in life makes you more sick to the stomach than losing a hand when you had a really strong hand yourself, then you’re going to love their Bad Beat Jackpot tables. Check for tables that have the yellow star and those are Bad Beat Jackpot tables, where losing the hand when you’re holding four deuces or better means everyone at the table gets paid. There’s a Progressive Jackpot put aside exactly for this and when a Bad Beat happens, you’ll get to keep 20% of that Jackpot with the winner of the hand banking 15% of it and the other players at the table sharing 12.5% of it.
Never heard of a Freebuy? It’s a cross between a freeroll and a rebuy! Freebuy tournaments are free to enter but players have the option to rebuy, for real money this time, if their chip stack goes below 1,000 chips. Rebuying obviously increases your chances of winning the tournament but it’s also perfectly possible to win the tournament or at least be in the money, without rebuying at all. Check the dedicated section on the site to see when they take place.
You’re going to need an account if you want to play. It’s just a case of filling out some basic details such as your name, address, e-mail and chosen password.
You’ll then also need to choose a deposit method. We always advise players to opt in to receiving Marketing communications about offers such as freerolls and special bonuses. You can always ignore the e-mails down the line but at least that way, you’re always up to date on what they’re giving away.
Like just about every other gambling site these days, they prefer it if players get in touch via LiveChat, which makes sense because it’s free and instant. There’s also an e-mail address if you prefer getting in touch that way but there doesn’t seem to be a phone line, which is a shame. It’s always an advantage if it’s there for specific circumstances.
On the plus side, they are available 24/7.
The first clue to the fact that it’s safe to play there is that they’ve been around forever (well, since 1999). The second is that they hold the Curacao license which involves being subject to constant checks on such things as keeping data safe and releasing customer funds as and when they’re requested. So yeah, you’re good to play here.
Yes. You can use Bitcoin but also Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Litecoin and Ethereum to make deposits, and Bitcoin and Litecoin for withdrawals.
It runs on the Chico Poker network.
Yes, there are freerolls available to enter n a weekly basis but also freebuys, which are tournaments where the entry is free but where you can rebuy for real money.
The main ones such as Texas Hold’em, Omaha Pot limit and Omaha Hi/Lo but also other lesser-seen versions such as Big2 and Chinese Poker, very rare indeed for an online poker site.
