Summary
Titan Poker is the pride and joy of the iPoker Network, offering a massive tournament schedule and lots of valuable promotions. Titan Poker has a long-standing reputation for sending an abundance of its members to the largest live poker tournaments in the world, even going so far as to initiate its own major event series, the $3.6 million European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP). With such a large player base, including many regular casino players, it’s easy enough to find plenty of loose action at the tables, in both ring games and tournaments.
Software
Titan Poker runs on the iPoker Network, licensing software from PlayTech, a leading designer of online gambling software, available in 11 languages. The software itself is extremely fast, though games tend to run slower with a lot of time allotted to each player to make a decision. A download is required to play (for free or real money), which is a setback for Titan Poker since there is no Mac or Linux compatible version of the software (Windows only). Titan Poker is graphically exceptional, with a nice clean feel and an array of realistic 3D avatars to choose from.
Note taking is available during play and a respectable hand history function comes complete with a graphic replay of hands. The Titan Poker Lobby offers quintessential stats like average pot size, viewed-flop % and hands played per hour. Multi-tabling allows up to 8 simultaneous tables with a 4-tiled mini-view function for easy cascading of windows.
Titan Poker has a new feature that players can download to alert them of upcoming tournaments and promotions. It’s called ‘My Speedy Alert’, available for free download with an extremely low file size that will not affect your computer’s speed.
Bonuses / Promotions
New players receive a 50% matching welcome bonus on their first deposit, worth up to $200. Collect poker points in raked ring games and by paying tournament fees to release the bonus. New players are also grant one free entry to a New Depositor Freeroll Tournament, held 5 times weekly. The winner of each New Depositor Freeroll can choose the digital prize of their choice, including iPods, home theatre systems and digital cameras.
Refer your friends to Titan Poker for a $75 bonus, and another $25 bonus for the friend.
Every time a player makes their first deposit of the week, they will receive entry to a Weekly Depositor Freerolls, worth $1,200 in guaranteed prizes.
Titan Poker is currently promoting its “Largest Ever Guaranteed Prize Pool”; an enormously profitable $2,500,000 Guaranteed tournament scheduled for September 7th. Direct buy-in is $1,500+$80, or pay as little as $2.75+$.20 to enter MTT and SNG satellites awarding entry to this massive tournament.
Titan Poker is famous for its Sit’n’Go Progressive Jackpots, offering 4 different varieties. Players must win a certain number of these tournaments consecutively to release the jackpot. First is the $50k Fort Knox Progressive Jackpot (win 6 times), the $25k Rio (win 6 times), the $15k Maui (win win 5 times) and the $2k Dirty Dozen. The Dirty Dozen is not a progressive, but offers a low buy-in of $2+$.40, and with only 12 players participating, a very good chance to win $2k for winning 4 consecutive tournaments.
Satellites at Titan Poker present members with a chance to win a seat in the world’s largest live poker tournaments, including the WSOP and APT Macau.
Game Variety
Titan Poker supplies a pretty basic line-up of online poker games; Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud and 5 Card Stud. All games are available in Fixed Limit and Pot Limit, with Texas Hold’em also offered in No Limit. Pot Limit and No Limit stakes range from micro-limits of $.01/$.02 to high stakes games of $100/$200. Fixed Limits start at $.05/$.010 scaling up to $50/$100.
With a peak-hour average of 10,000 real-money players in ring games (June 2008), there’s action at all game varieties and stakes throughout the day. Game play is relatively loose, especially at low- to mid-level stakes.
Tournaments
Titan Poker hosts a plethora of valuable tournaments, from Freerolls and Satellites to valuable Guaranteeds and Progressive Jackpot SNGs. Daily Freerolls offer prize pools of $300 to $3,000, requiring poker points to enter. The amount of points needed tends to be the same as the prize pool (i.e. 300 points for $300 Freeroll, 3,000 points for $3k Freeroll).
Guaranteed tournaments offer buy-ins as low as $1 scaling up into the hundreds, sometimes higher for the exceptionally large prize pools, like the $2.5 million guaranteed scheduled for September 7, 2008. Regular guaranteeds include a $250k every Sunday. Daily guaranteeds present prize pools of $20k to $50k on a regular basis. Live poke tournament fans will find a great selection of satellites awarding seats in the biggest events, including the WSOP, EPT, APT and Aussie Millions.
Titan Poker averages 55,000 real-money players in tournaments at peak hours (June 2008). Generally speaking, the lower the buy-in (and especially Freerolls), the juicier the competition will be. The Sit’n’Go schedule is enormously popular, mostly due to the excessive number of progressive jackpots and other consistently valuable SNGs.
Support
Titan Poker has one of the absolute best customer support teams in the online poker industry, as was evident when the site was awarded “Gambling Online Magazine’s Gold Award for Best Customer Support in 2007.” The response time is lightning quick and extremely professional, available via 7 email departments and 24/7 telephone support, with multiple region-specific toll-free lines available.
Payment Methods
Titan Poker accepts players from most geographical locations, but US players are not accepted at this time. There are plenty of payment options supplies to accommodate even the pickiest poker player. Accepted currencies are USD, GBP, EUR and CAD.
Deposit Methods: Visa, MasterCard, Switch, Solo, NETeller, Moneybookers, ClickandBuy, InstaDebit, Click2Pay, PaySafeCard, Ukash, Bank Transfer, iDeal, Przelewy24, POLI, EcoCard, Web Money, MyCitadel, UseMyBank and EntroPay.
Withdrawal Methods: Visa, MasterCard, Switch, Solo, NETeller, Moneybookers, ClickandBuy, InstaDebit, Click2Pay, Bank Transfer, EcoCard, Web Money, MyCitadel and Check.