Tiger Gaming Poker Review

About Tiger Gaming Poker

Founded in 1999 TigerGaming Poker has been around for a surprisingly long time so all the standards you’d expect in an online poker site are there, including fast and secure deposit/withdrawal options and solid, bug-free software. It’s not as established in the mainstream poker world as some of the bigger poker sites but that brings with it some nice perks – and undoubtedly some softer tables. This isn’t a grinder’s site. This is where the fish come to swim.

Tiger Gaming runs on the Chico Poker Network, which is a small but growing network that is expanding its offerings regularly. It offers a surprisingly robust poker client that includes poker standards such as No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha as well as unique ones like Big2 and Chinese Poker. It’s very rare for an online poker site to offer Chinese Poker. (*Note: Big2 and Chinese Poker are only available on the old Tiger Gaming software).

The site also offers some very lucrative promos including popular leaderboard competitions. Unlike competitors Tiger Gaming gives players a fixed prizepool to play for instead of one that gives a percentage based on the amount of game play or number of participants.

Like most international poker sites Tiger Gaming isn’t currently available in the United States but you can expect it to be approved for a license once online poker regulation returns to the US.

As mentioned the Tiger Gaming software is solid and functional but it’s not going to win any awards either. The soft tables, unique games and solid promos make up for Tiger Gaming’s less-than-ideal software. Tiger Gaming Poker offers cash games in No Limit Hold’em, Limit Hold’em,  Pot-Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo with stakes from 1c/2c up to $5/$10. If you’re looking for the high-stakes stuff you’re better off looking elsewhere. But that’s an asset for Tiger Gaming Poker, not a liability.

Tiger Gaming Poker Bonus

The Tiger Gaming poker bonus is an impressive up to $2,500 at 100% but you don’t have to deposit the maximum to take advantage. In fact the opposite is true – as long as you deposit $50 or more you’ll get the full 100% match.

You’ll have to play a bit to collect your bonus. Players earn $1 for every 14 VIP Points earned in real-money poker games and tournaments.

Just earn the number of VIPs for your bonus and the cash will release directly into your online account.

TigerGaming Bonus Codes

Tiger Gaming poker currently has no no-deposit bonuses on offer but that does change from time to time. No bonus code is needed to access our $1,000 match bonus. Simply download the Tiger Gaming software via one of our review links and you’ll automatically be eligible to play for the full $1,000 bonus.

TigerGaming $10,000 First Depositors Freeroll

As soon as you make your first deposit at TigerGaming you’ll automatically get a ticket into the monthly $10,000 new player freeroll.

The freeroll runs on the 2nd Sunday of very month at 17:00 ET. To buy in just log in to the poker software and register! Ongoing promotions for regular Tiger Gaming Poker players include:

• $10,000 Weekly Cash Leaderboard
• $5,000 Multi-Table Leaderboard Challenge
• $5,000 Sit ‘N Go Weekly Leaderboard Challenge
• $7,500 Winners Series

For every cent you earn in rake playing cash games you’ll get a VIP point. For tournaments you’ll get 100 points for every $1 you pay in fees.

Other Promotions & Loyalty Program

Tiger Gaming utilizes the VIP points system, which you’ll be able to spend on a variety of prizes as you earn them. Unlike some other sites Tiger Gaming doesn’t currently offer perks for achieving certain levels of status.

Comp points can be used to buy in to a variety of special tournaments; just check the lobby to see if points are accepted for the tourney you want to play and then click on register. 

24-Hour Withdrawals or Double Your Cashout!

You remember the old “30 minutes or free” pizza delivery promo right? Well, Tiger Gaming has the next, best thing. Guaranteed 24-hour withdrawals or you’ll get double your cashout.

It seems almost too good to be true, but it is. Tiger Gaming prides itself so much on offering the fastest payouts in the industry that it’s willing to pay you double if they don’t deliver. Their words:

“If we do not pay you within 24 hours, we will give you 100% of the requested cashout amount, guaranteed! So now you can deposit and withdraw whenever you want and be guaranteed of getting your cashouts in record time, but don’t just take our word for it, try it for yourself the next time you withdraw, and put us to the test!”

Not only that, if you post about it on Facebook, Twitter, forums or get your friends to join you’ll get a free seat into a $10,000 GTD tournament.

Tournaments and Freerolls

Sit & Go’s play a very large part of Tiger Gaming’s tournament schedule. You’ll always have something to play as a new Sit & Go is starting almost every minute on the site. Tiger also runs a variety of freerolls including a very sizeable ($10,000) monthly first-depositors event.

Bigger tournaments are a little harder to find and if you love big Sunday events you might want to go elsewhere. Still, $130,000 is guaranteed across the full slate of weekend tournaments.

Most tournament prize pools on Tiger Gaming top out the $10,000-$20,000 GTD range but the $150K Guaranteed tournament runs on the last Sunday of every month with a buy-in of $150+$15.

Satellites for it start as low as $13.50, though, and run every four hours. You can also work your way up through the satellite steps starting at just $1.34.

Tiger Gaming $50,000 Windfall SnGs – Big Money, Fast

Windfall SnGs are Tiger Gaming Poker’s version of the ultra popular Hyper-Turbo jackpot SngS. They’re fast, furious and super fun with small starting stacks at ultra quick blind levels.

Buy ins are $3, $7, $15 and $30 and prize pools get as high as $50,000. The prize pool multipliers offer 2x-2000x your buy-in! You can find the Windfall Sit ‘n’ Go’s in the game client under the Windfall tab.

Tiger Gaming Boost Poker

Boost Poker is Tiger Gaming’s fast-fold variant similar to Zoom or Rush poker. As soon as you fold your cards you’re immediately moved to a new table with a brand new hand against different opponents. 

That means non-stop action for you with way more hands per hour and no more waiting things out with poor hands and slow players. Boost Poker is available in both tournament and cash game form.

Massive Tiger Gaming Bad Beat Jackpots!

One of the most appealing things of Tiger Gaming for many amateurs players is Tiger Gaming’s huge – and uncapped – Bad Beat Jackpot.

How does it work?

Find the poker tables marked with a “J.” These are the participating tables on which players are contributing a small part of every pot to build a huge progressive jackpot.

For every $4 in the pot at these tables, 10 cents will be added to the progressive jackpot.

To hit the jackpot, a player has to lose a hand with four of a kind of Jacks or higher. That’s a rare occurrence, but it it does happen everyone at the table is going to get PAID.

The Loser of the hand gets the biggest share of the jackpot at 35%. The winner of the hand gets 17.5% and the rest of the players at the table split the same percentage – 17.5.

The remaining 30% is used to seed the new Bad Beat Jackpot, which resets to at least $100,000.

Software and Graphics

Tiger Gaming’s software isn’t exactly what brings players to the site. It works, but it can be slow and laggy at times. It also looks a little busy aesthetically. 

The new Tiger software offers standard No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha and is available for both Windows and OSX.

Interestingly Tiger Gaming still offers its legacy software that includes obscure variants such as Big2 and Chinese Poker. The software may be old and clunky but getting to play Chinese Poker is worth it to some players.

Tiger Gaming Poker Mobile App

After a long wait Tiger Gaming Poker is now available on Android, iPad and iPhone. To play on a Mac you’ll need iPhone5 or higher or iPad3 or higher. You won’t be able to download the software but you can play via your favorite browser.

For Android OS 6 or higher you will be able to download the software.

Soft Competition

The players on Tiger Gaming are truly the killer feature of the entire site.

It’s a skilled poker player’s paradise with plenty of soft spots to be had. Much of the site’s traffic comes from the online Tiger Casino so they aren’t exactly sharks.

While you may have to deal with some glitchy software, the games are generally so good that it’s worth it. It’s especially refreshing if you’ve been trying to grind out some small wins on the bigger sites.

Unfortunately the bigger games on Tiger Gaming don’t run that often so you’ll be forced to play mostly micro or small-stakes. It tends to be worth it.

Tiger Gaming Casino Games

Another big upside to the Tiger Gaming software is access to the Tiger Gaming casino. There are tons of different games from the usual slots to video poker to blackjack to roulette and more. 

Sportsbook, racebook and Live casino games are also available, which is a two-fold advantage. One it gives you something fun to do on the side of your poker games; it also gives you a chance to come across players who just hit a big score at the track/racebook and move their profits over to the poker tables.