wow. you'll probably flamed by the "know it alls"....

but my recent experience has been the same as you. i signed up for the most popular poker site in the world, and i was shocked (dumb-founded in fact) by how tight the games were.

i came from a sports betting site with poker. very few bonuses, poker tracker doesn't work, lots of europeans, and this led to alot softer games (4-5 pre-flop) but no huge availability. i've since gone back to the softer site, albeit with no bonuses.

we had a very similar thread to this recently. i seem to recall MLP by ciaffone and i recommended matt maroon's book (very cheap). even hellmuth's stuff is pretty good for tight games. and obviously sklansky's stuff.