Poker 2.0 News

It seems that social games are not going to end. Now the cafe-manager type of social games get more and more interesting scenarios. According to TechCrunch article , No 1. iPhone social game now is Mini Tycoon Casino . \\the game is just like others - collecting coins over the time. Coins vanishes if overdue. Expanding your enterprice buying new equipement, decoration etc. That looks like popular Zynga's Cafe World or PlayFish Restaurant City games.

The future belongs to Android OS and devices with this operating system - mainly planchette computers (iPad, Samsung Galaxy etc). The developers of various poker applications perfectly understands that an their primary target is to create a cool and nice poker apps. One of the most popular Android poker app is Texas Holdem King 3 . The grafics are not very sophisticated, but the number of downloads says that it is worth to try. This application also allows playing against live players rather than AI of the application. There are some more options in the market. Poker applications for Android are free, but some are already paid. We are at the start of huge business. In next 2 years the world will be filled with Android devices, so these applications may bring lots of users and profit to the creators and developers.

The newest tech geek toy iPad has already got its first poker application. It comes together with a handy app called Game Table on April 3rd, 2010. Poker is just one of the games besides chess and checkers. This iPad application costs $0.99, so it’s really affordable. There is no more details about the game, but it seems quite interesting if players will be able to fold or through away chips with finger touch. Hopefully it will reveal a new touchscreen experience for poker players.

PartyPoker launches an unusual feature in their software – player staking . It allows players to stake the other players in the tournaments. It is still in beta, but it can become really huge. Why are we writing about it here? Well the poker staking is usually a social interaction among the players, because people must trust other players before buying some shares of their buy-ins. Present staking sites are great poker communities ( StakeShark.com, ChipMeUp.com, IstakeU.com, Nordicstaking.com etc.)

Bwin engineers are updating the software to integrate a first social media feature in the poker software. That will cost $45 million. The future features are described vaguely – something like shoutbox or instant messenger which should help social interaction and communication among players. Guys, just invest a couple of million to community building in most popular social media like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace and you will be much ahead of your competitors! :)