Titan Poker Review

Deposit Options

Banking at Titan Poker is fast, safe, and convenient, and if you would like to use NZD as your form of currency, you can. You can also choose from a wide variety of deposit methods, and in most instances use the same method for withdrawal. Titan Poker has a reputation for processing withdrawals much faster than most online gambling sites, usually within 24 hours and sometimes instantly. However, speed is never at the cost of security. The use of advanced encryption technology assures you, regardless of which of the following banking methods you use, that all of your transactions are fully protected.

Software

Titan Poker is powered by Playtech, one of the most respected and widely used software providers for online poker rooms and casinos worldwide. The software, which is updated periodically, runs smoothly and combines a very easy to use interface with a variety of play enhancing special features. Although the graphics are serviceable rather than spectacular, we applaud the fact that on the one hand, the site is user friendly enough for beginners, while on the other hand, more advanced players are not neglected. For example, if they want to step up their play by reviewing stats on both their own hands and their opponents’ hand, while playing multiple games at once, they can. Therefore, in the category of software, we feel that a high Titan Poker rating is justified.

Titan Poker, like most modern online poker rooms, lets you choose from three convenient ways to access the games:

• Downloading the software onto your computer.
• Using the instant play flash version, for immediate access on any browser.
• Downloading the appropriate Titan Poker mobile app and playing selected ring games and tournaments on the go on your mobile phone or tablet.

A particularly nice feature of Titan Poker, and this applies whether you are playing on your computer or on your mobile device, is that many of the games are offered in both free play and real money versions. If your skills are a little rusty and you would like to get the feel of a game first before risking real money on it, no problem. You can start with play money and switch, if you like, to real money later.

The Titan Poker software comes with many other good features we think you will appreciate, such as the following:

• Quick Seat
• Instantly available hand histories and last hand replay option.
• Access to important stats (i.e., pot size and opponents’ names and their stacks and betting patterns).
• Customisable options: (i.e., table size and view, game speed, choice of avatars).
• Chat with other players at your table.
• Multi-tabling: Rather than being limited to playing just one game at a time, like on some sites, when playing Titan Poker on your computer, you can play up to 16 games at a time.
• Free on-site Titan Poker Academy including articles and a slide presentation to help beginners learn the basics.

Of course, an important part of this Titan Poker review is examining what this site offers mobile players, and this is an area where we feel there could be some improvement. At the present time, Titan Poker offers two mobile apps, one for Apple iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) and one for Android devices. If you would like to take advantage of this option, see the Titan home page for more information and to download the appropriate app for your phone or tablet. If you have a tablet, you will probably find that option easier to use than using a smartphone to play due to the larger size screen. However, keep in mind that your choice of games, even on a tablet, is much more limited than on the computer. Another important limitation when you play Titan Poker on a mobile device is that you cannot multi-table. The Titan Poker mobile apps only let you play one game at a time. Hopefully, new, improved apps will be available soon which allow for play on other devices besides those currently supported and access to a greater number of games as well.

Game Variety

TitanPoker.com is a high traffic site. It is entirely up to you whether you wish to play for free or for real money or for small stakes, medium stakes, or high stakes since this is an online poker room with games that would appeal to almost anyone. If you have tried playing elsewhere online and have been frustrated by limited choices, shorthanded games, and small tournament fields, you owe it to yourself to check out what Titan Poker has to offer. You will be pleasantly surprised to see the tremendous variety of games in every category: ring games, freerolls, Sit and Gos, and tournaments. We have only favourable things to say in this Titan Poker review about this site’s game variety.

Cash Games

The Titan Poker cash games cover a wide range of limits although the micro stakes and low stakes No Limit Hold ‘Em games are the ones that attract the most players. The choice of standard ring games includes:

• No Limit, Fixed Limit, and Pot Limit Hold ‘Em
• Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo
• Seven and Five Card Stud

You can choose from tables with 2 players, 6 players, 8 players, or 10 players. Limit games start at .02/.04 and go up to at least $50/$100, while no limit games have blinds ranging from just .01/.02 all the way up to at least $10/$20. The most popular no limit games are the micro stakes through $2/$4. There are also many people playing $5/$10 no limit evenings and weekends.

Keep in mind, however, that the blinds posted at some tables make the games look smaller than they are. Some tables are “deep stack,” requiring a 100 big blind minimum with antes; at other “shallow stack” tables, the starting stack size is 20-50 big blinds.

Lower limit games (up to $1/$2) have a maximum rake of $1; higher limit games have a maximum rake of $3. Titan Poker has a “no flop, no drop” policy, meaning that no rake is charge for hands that are decided preflop.

In addition to all of these standard cash games, Titan Poker, keeping up with the competition, now offers “Speed Hold ‘Em. This is the very fast version of the game where as soon as you fold, you not only move immediately to a new hand, but to another table with new players!

Freerolls

Titan Poker offers lots of freerolls. In addition to the four invitations you receive when you first sign up, daily freerolls with 500 seats are offered on a first come-first served basis. Depositors’ freerolls, freerolls based on loyalty level, and special freerolls that you can play as a steppingstone to other tournaments offer many more opportunities.

Sit and Gos

Sit and Go games are another big draw at Titan Poker. Buy-ins range from as little as NZD$1 to as high as NZD$5,000. The starting stack is 1600 chips with blind levels either 7 minutes or 4 minutes long. The games are offered in many varieties, including all of the following:

• Standard single table games with either 9 players (paying 3 spots) or 6 players paying 2 spots.
• Multiple-table games
• Double or Nothing games
• Steps games: Opportunity to win your way up to bigger games.
• Jackpot SNGs where if you win six in a row, in addition to the regular first place prize, you win one of the following jackpots:

  Dirty Dozen

  2-6 players

  NZD$2 entry fee

  NZD$2,000 jackpot

  Maui

  10 players

  NZD$5 entry fee

  NZD$10,000 progressive jackpot

  Rio

  6 players

  NZD$20 entry fee

  NZD$20,000 progressive jackpot

  Fort Knox

  10 players

  NZD$40 entry fee

  NZD$35,000 progressive jackpot
• Twister Jackpot SNGs: These are three-handed super turbo games. A Wheel of Fortune spun before the game starts determines the multitple of the buy-in (2x to 1,000) you are playing for.

Tournaments

Tournaments, like cash games, are offered with a wide range of buy-ins, structures, and formats (rebuy, turbo, Double or Nothing, etc.) The small regularly scheduled tournaments with a buy-in of NZD$1 to NZD$20 are the most crowded. However, there are many other tournaments players can choose from which are also very popular, like the following:

• NZD$100,000 guaranteed tournament every Sunday
• End of month NZD$10,000 Bonanza Tournaments open to any player who earns 750 points or more during the month or qualifies via satellite freerolls.
• Satellites for everything from higher priced online tournaments to major tournaments like the WSOP, WPT, Irish Open, and Aussie Millions.
• Themed tournaments offering huge jackpots.

Leaderboards for both the SNGs and MTTs provide players with more chances to win a cash prize. Also, in response to customer complaints about the lack of synchronized breaks, all tournament breaks now start at 5 minutes to the hour so those players who wish to play in more than one tournament at a time can do so.