Titan Poker is part of the iPoker Network, which means they share the same players as Fair Poker, VC Poker, and many other iPoker sites. Also, they don’t accept US players, so again Americans are gypped at experiencing yet another premium poker site. They use the overused yet reliable PlayTech-enabled software—you can really tell the different because, cookie cutter look aside, the room looks great. Of course, great things come at a price, because you’ll need quite a lot of bandwidth in order to view the room. Even with a DSL connection, the “Tremendous Titan Poker Experience” involves a lot of disconnections; as in a lot. Otherwise, when everything is running smoothly (at the off-chance that you’re able to view the front page), you’re treated with great graphics and smooth game play PlayTech is renowned for.

Titan Poker offers players a vanguard poker variant of Texas Hold ‘Em (with its own variants of Limit, No Limit, and Pot Limit), Seven Card Stud, Five Card Stud, Omaha (Limit and Pot Limit), and Omaha Hi/Lo (Limit and Pot Limit). They also provide you with all these games as Sit and Go games from $.1 + $.01 up to $1,000+$30 and as Heads Up games from $.02/$.04 up to $300/$600. To keep the site running and their player base buzzing, they host and manage a lot of tournaments, although some their guarantees have a tendency to overlap.

Titan Poker - Bonuses and Promotions

Gaining the bonus in Titan Poker is fairly simple to understand. First, there’s the depositors freeroll than, on first blush, looks like a welcome bonus, but it’s also a loyalty bonus rolled into one. That is, with the depositor’s freeroll, every time you make a deposit, regardless if it’s the 1st or the 100th, you’ll always get a free entry into a $1,000 guaranteed freeroll.

Another way to gain bonuses is through Titan Poker Points. You collect $5 of your bonus for every 600 Titan Poker Points you earn, so in order to complete a $500 bonus, you need 30,000 points. In order to earn points easily, you need to raise your VIP level—a feat that can be accomplished by continuous, real money play. The more you play, the higher your VIP level, and the higher your VIP level, the more points you win. Once you finally gain those 30,000 points, the $500 will prove to just be icing to the “cakey” winnings you’ve already earned by now (if you’re skillful or lucky enough, that is).

You start out from Bronze level as a novice, but you can easily become up to Titanium level while earning this bonus because you need a total of 30,000 points to clear. Does the math of this ingenious promotion add up for you so far? By trying to gain that $500 as quickly as possible, you’ll have the added benefit of improving your player skills and VIP level, thus earning (though losing from time to time is unavoidable) you lots of potential winnings to boot. It’s a win-win situation, although it’s a long grind for those microstakers and low-skilled casual gamers. Take note that you only have 3 months to earn the bonus before it expires, so make sure you have the time to grind out all 30,000 points.

Titan Poker - Site Software

The resource-munching, bandwidth-crunching Titan Poker room offers a fully realized 3D design, a blue-red color scheme, and animated characters that can say phrases like “call”, “fold”, or “raise”, which adds to the overall immersive quality of the game. Actually, considering such state-of-the-art, console-worthy software, it shouldn’t be a surprise why this site is getting flocked by poker players from all walks of life—or at least, flocked by poker players who appreciate the site’s eye candy of a game.

You also get the by-now industry-standard chat bar on the side, under the table, or none at all, with the added options to choose “all chat”, “just dealer”, or “just player chat.” Remember, it’s important for you to fit in to the sleek ambiance of the game in order to get set with your game; with such a graphic intensive site, it’s only natural for you to deal with a whole other player culture different from those found in sparser expert level poker sites or cruder, small time poker sites. You can choose your own avatar from the preset ones, but you can’t load your own custom-made one, which is a minor gripe to an otherwise great software design. Bottom line: if you’re a control freak, you’ll absolutely love the level of customization this site offers.

Another advantage Titan Poker has that other similarly 3D poker rooms don’t have is the option of multi-tabling; a boon for those multitasking fiends and their time-maximizing ways. When you’re multi-tabling, each table opens up in a new window, while hand histories are displayed in a clean, readable graphic format—with one press of a button, you can review your play style and know what to improve on. But then again, for those used to standard text hand histories, this can be more of a detriment than an advantage.

Titan Poker - Traffic and Competition

To put it bluntly, the majority of the players at Titan Poker are composed of “scrubs”, otherwise known as microstaking, casual players with poor skills and even poorer dedication. Titan Pokers generous bonus offers—that is, many people get an instant money incentive by simply signing up and clearing a bonus—baits and catches a sea of veritable soft competition and novices (though not at the rate that Party Poker does). These mediocre players seem to be satisfied with breaking even at poker by using their incentives or merely clearing a bonus. For expert players, aggressive rushes at these low-skilled novices will give them an absolute killing.

Also, the level of competition in Titan Poker is the reason why tournaments are so popular in the site. The tournaments—which include the aforesaid depositor’s freeroll—are extremely soft. Their tournaments are currently presenting satellites for diverse poker trips (before, it was just for prizes), which is a nice step up because with the soft competition, you have a better chance of winning that poker trip or tournament entry, as opposed to winning a tournament with Poker Star’s stiffer competition.

More to the point, Titan Poker is an awesome gold mine for hustlers who want to bleed microstakers dry, because the site has among the worst players and novices in the world.

Titan Poker - Tournaments

Titan Poker’s Sit and Go tournaments have quick a lot of players on them; little wonder, because they offer quite a lot of action, with buy-ins ranging from $1 + $.2 up to $1,000 + $50. The ballpark figure of at least 300 participants in these tournaments, but there can be more (or less) players depending on the current traffic to the site. In any case, that isn’t a half-bad number, because quite a lot of sites have empty tables all over the place. Moreover, players of all skill levels are evenly distributed across the site, although the Satellite room can leave you unsatisfied because of the lack of microstakes. Nevertheless, the game variety and the amount of traffic Titan Poker gets should keep everyone happy; the more the merrier and all that.

Titan Poker indeed lives up to its name when it comes to player traffic; more to the point, the average turnout for their scheduled tournaments room absolutely overwhelms their already hefty Sit and Go turnout. One glance at the number of players and you can surmise about 5,000 players have participated in the tournament. Such turnouts are unheard of in most, if not all, of the other poker rooms. Buy-ins begin from $0 freerolls and go up to $160 + $12. You also get numerous invitational summons if you’re a VIP player. Undoubtedly, this poker room is the best place to play truly world-class (or at least, multi-national) poker.

Titan Poker - Everything Else

Titan Poker support is fairly standard, but the industry standard is quite excellent in and of itself, so that’s not necessarily a bad thing. You get the staple 24/7 online support via email and toll free phone service. You can ask anything—from promotions to technical questions—and you’ll immediately get answers from their highly competent support staff. There’s also a chat line that gives you literally instant access to those customer service agents while playing in the site.

All in all, Titan Poker can compete with the best poker sites when it comes to great bonuses, a player base filled with soft competition for beginners and hustlers alike, and a satisfying and immersive game engine. Now, if only they could streamline their bandwidth problems and get a more balanced player base by hiring world-class players to represent them, then they could very well be the best poker site in the industry. As is, they’re getting there. For high-performance and rewarding poker, look no further than Titan Poker!