Poker 2.0 News

Here comes the N’th poker application in Facebook. This time WPT decided to grab a piece of multi-million social gaming market by introducing a new poker application simply called WPT Texas Hold’em . It has nothing to do with former WPT poker room or new owners of the brand – PartyGaming. So far the app has 175K monthly users and increasing. Anyway Zynga Poker is the biggest and still can share it’s market piece to small challengers like this one.

The World is not enough for Zynga. 3rd most popular Zynga’s game Zynga Poker now has a little brother – flash game Poker Blitz . This is a fast poker game against the house where player must collect as much money as possible over period of time. Of course the game is full of various achievements to be considered a real social game. So far Poker Blitz game can be played in Facebook . According to AppData , Poker Blitz has already reached 750K users this month and will be growing.

Charismatic poker pro Jeffrey Lisandro just invited everyone to his official Facebook Page . Thanks a lot Jeffrey and good luck Facebooking! (Hopefully you will have enough time to update your Twitter and Facebook profiles. Your friend Tony G. got the personal concierge for that, what about you?)

The new year brings all poker players (those, who use Facebook, of course) some hope, that poker will never die. Despite of Zynga Poker popularity and 10-100 times bigger size than any competitor, new players arrive to the market. Recently we have announced about PlayFish’s Poker Rivals arrival. Now there is another player with 1,200 monthly users – Broadway Poker . It has been developed by 2 quite famous social games (Scrabulous) developers brothers Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla. It is still quite empty in comparison even with Poker Rivals or Poker Palace, but it is worth to try. The design is quite simple and nothing too fancy. Brothers Agarwallas created different games on the launch, not like other Facebook poker applications when they launch Texas Holdem in the beginning and set “Coming soon” for Omaha games, which are getting more and more popular among advanced players. Beginners has a nice hint in the bottom of the table, so i could call this room quite a good place ...

It seems Finnish poker pro Juha Helppi was introduced to Facebook and all it’s benefits. He invited everyone to his personal fan page . Thanks Juha! let’s see if you will be active all the time in World’s most popular social network with millions of poker players. So far your updates came only once in 2 weeks. Those who do not know who is Juha Helppi , here is some of his achievements: 1st place in € 20,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Rollers Event, EPT - Deauville 1st place in Partypoker.com Premier League Poker, Maidstone 1st place in WPT $ 300 No Limit Hold'em Main Event, Ultimate Bet Poker Classic, Palm Beach (the list of winnings is very long)

Zynga is the social games company which produces the biggest and huge success social games for biggest social networks. It’s main competitor is PlayFish which always try creating similar games. Zynga has FarmVille, Playfish has Country Story, Zynga – CaffeWorld, PlayFish – Restaurant City. Zynga has Texas Holdem, so PlayFish just launched new poker application called Poker Rivals . It is a nice poker room with similar features such as daily chips lottery, achievements, friend invitations and gifts etc. Flash client is much nicer than Zynga's (personal opinion). Here is the table view of PokerRivals: As you can see it has some interesting and nicely designed features. Hopefully it will become popular and good competitor to Zynga’s Texas Holdem.

It seems that 888.com with all its gambling empire finally decided to use the advantages of social media and guerrilla marketing and started their profile in Facebook . Big poker rooms usually have lots of interesting promotions, tournaments, bad bead jackpots and other interesting information which can be posted using any RSS to Facebook application, but 888 seems to have a live person behind the Facebook updates. Congratulations! You are 1 step ahead FullTilt in the social media rivalry!

Poker 2.0 is getting some speed and boost in the internet. In order to spread a word about Poker and web 2.0 technology junction, I have created some other blogs and write a unique content for them. Yes, i do not copy-paste, because it would be bad for reputation, and, of course, for SEO. One of the most successful unofficial blogs is hosted in one of the best poker blog engines PokerKnave . Another one is in a blog aggregation service which allows original blog writing - PokerWeblogs . Short notes with some interesting considerations or any other poker related stuff is run in Posterous (their main competitor Tumblr hates me and bans all the time for poker content. Probably these guys do not play poker and do not imagine how much content poker players can generate). One more blog is managed in one of poker social networks PokerNations . So far this is the best social network for poker players. Blog features can be improved, but all the rest is brilliant. Of course I continue writing a...