Golden Tiger Poker Review

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Name Golden Tiger Poker Country Gibraltar Network Microgaming Poker Established 2002 Support email support Telephone 1 888 942 7466

Overall Rating 3.40 Software/Interface 3.4 Ring Games 2.9 Tournaments 3.4 Game Variety 3.2 Soft Competition 3.4 Signup Bonus 3.1 Frequent Player 4.5 Promotions 3.6 Customer Support 4.5 Deposit & Cashout 4.4

Golden Tiger Poker is part of the Microgaming Poker Network (formerly known as Prima Poker), and just as most poker rooms connected to the Microgaming Poker Network, the connection to an online casino makes it convenient for players who like to use their funds for both poker and other forms of online gambling. Golden Tiger Poker has become quite popular among casino players, offering some of the softest games online with high numbers of ‘casual’ poker players at the tables. The volume of players is around 20,000 at peak times. Overall it is a solid site with good features and game play.

They share the same player base and software platform with all the other skins on the Microgaming network so if you have played at sites such as Crazy Poker or Dream Poker you will feel right at home.

Golden Tiger Poker offers a choice of six cash games: Texas Hold’em, 5 Card Draw, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud and 5 Card stud.

Texas Hold’em games are broken down into several categories, and they have a selection of Bad Beat tables where you can get paid out if you suffer a bad beat. Of course, restrictions apply to this nice feature, but at least if you are beat holding four-of-a-kind or better you have a shot at some cash! Golden Tiger Poker offers a good selection of ‘Beginners Games’ - micro stakes tables that start at $0.05/$0.10 for NL, PL and Fixed Limit. They are of course very popular for the newbies who are just getting their feet wet on real money play.

The Fixed Limit lineup is rather extensive at Golden Tiger Poker, with a choice of heads up games from $0.50/$1.00 up to $50/$100 and Turbo Games from $1/$2 up to $20/$40, where the pace of the action is sped up by giving the bettor a shorter time to act - a neat feature for the impatient player or if you are just trying to squeeze in a quick game. Golden Tiger Poker's selection of regular Fixed Limit games covers all possible stakes from $0.05/$0.10 to $150/$300. The action is good throughout the range during peak hours.

The Pot Limit lineup is equally extensive with Heads Up tables up from $0.25/$0.50 up to $10/$20. Regular Pot Limit tables start at $0.50/$1.00 and go all the way up to $100/$200, and the traffic at higher stakes improves at peak times.

Golden Tiger Poker No Limit choices include Heads Up, Turbo and of course regular ring games. Golden Tiger Poker’s NL Heads Up offers games from $0.50/$1.00 up to $200/$400, so if you are looking to work on that aspect of your game you can find action that suits your wallet. The NL Turbo Games range from $1/$2 and cap out at $20/$40 while their regular NL range from $0.05/$0.10 to $200/$400. The lower to mid range ($20/$40) games have action at almost any time of day or night. The high stakes tables get more action at peak hours and you have a good chance of finding a game then.

Golden Tiger Poker offers a good selection of 5 Card Stud and 5 Card Draw games as well which covers Fixed Limit, Pot Limit, and No Limit. There is good action at the lower stakes of 5 Card Draw NL throughout the day with again the peak hours really picking up. They are one of the better sites if you are looking for 5 Card Draw action. The tables range for $0.10/$0.20 to $10/$20 5 Card Draw and 5 card Stud from $2/$4 up to $50/$100.

7 Card Stud action is pretty much non-existent off peak hours and not much better during prime time. They offer Fixed Limit, Pot Limit and No Limits games as well.

Golden Tiger Poker’s Omaha line up covers Fixed Limit (not much action there at any time of day), Pot Limit (with action at the lower stakes at peak times) and No Limit (with some action at peak times as well). They offer Heads Up Omaha games for all limit structures. Omaha Hi/Lo games are about the same as regular Omaha but with less action, and they offer stakes from $0.05/$0.10 up to $150/$300. The Omaha table stakes are there to meet anyone’s needs but unfortunately the action is not.

They have a very extensive Sit and Go Tournament schedule that covers single table action with plenty of blind limits to choose from. The Multi-Table SNG’s have a variety of game styles such as Freezeout (a standard SNG format), Speed Play (where the blinds rise every 5 minutes and players have 7 seconds to act) and Extreme Turbo, where the stakes rise every 2 minutes. They offer all kinds of player limits for heads up, 3 player, 5 player and up to 20 player SNG’s. These are very popular and fill up fast at peak times. Additionally, Golden Tiger Poker has “Rounders” tables: special Sit-and-Go’s that give players the chance to win big money for a small buy-in. The Rounders tournaments consist of five levels, where the top finishers in one level advance to the next.  They are very popular and quite a lot of fun.

The Multi-Table Tournaments are quite popular as well. Golden Tiger Poker offers satellites to their big Sunday $200,000 and $400,000 Guaranteed tournaments as well as WSOP qualifiers, and they have a good selection of re-buy and freezeout guaranteed offered daily.

As part of the Prima Network, Golden Tiger Poker has a host of casino games in addition to poker that you can quickly and easily access and fund right from the same account as you use to fund your poker play.

They have a decent sign up bonus of 50% up to $200, as well as a loyalty program where you earn points for real money play and then can exchange the points for cash.

The Golden Tiger Poker software is about average. The dealer action is smooth but not particularly fast. There is a text history account of the table action that scrolls up the right side of the card room. Sound effects are clear and do not take away from the game. On the poker table, they display in text form what your hand rank is, i.e. “One pair- Six’s”, a useful feature for beginners. The tables are 10 player max and they do offer short handed 6 player tables as well.

Golden Tiger Poker card room graphics are not as clear as some other sites, and the carpet can be a little distracting, but the overall look and feel is about average compared to other sites. A feature that separates them from other poker rooms is the ability for players to create their own private games, including cash games, SNG’s and Multi-Table tournaments. They also support multi-tabling.

The lobby filters are very easy to use and players can navigate through the game selection with minimal effort. The lobby game columns provide as much information as any other site, with fields such as player/flop, average pot size, and hands per hour.

Statistics and note-taking are available at the tables. Hand histories can also be requested as well as stored on your hard drive. While Golden Tiger Poker has a player search function, it does not have a buddy list feature.

Golden Tiger Poker uses 128-bit encryption technology when transferring data over the Internet. The way this top-of-the-line system works to keep players and their money safe when playing at Golden Tiger Poker, is by issuing each player with a unique account number, which is protected by a secret password.

Golden Tiger Poker has 24/7 phone support, accessible with toll free numbers for the US, UK, Canada and Denmark. Their email support response times are inconsistent, but the information is usually accurate.