REVIEWS OF THE TOP POKER APPS FOR WINDOWS PHONE
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Windows Phone is gaining popularity and showing record sales as it closes the gap on Apple's iOS and Google's Android platform. Microsoft's mobile operating system is now the second most popular smartphone OS in countries like Italy, Mexico, Poland, Finland and Greece. This increase in market share hasn't gone unnoticed by online poker rooms as they fight to attract real-money poker players to their poker apps. The latest generation of browser based poker sites offer ring games, turbo poker and Sit & Go tournaments on any iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone tablet or handset. United States citizens can now also play Texas Hold'em cash games, speed poker and Multi-table tournaments on their mobile devices.
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PARTY POKER WINDOWS - UK ONLYIf you live in the United Kingdom you can now download the Windows Phone poker app to your Lumia device. Party Poker for Windows Phone supports both Texas Hold'em and Omaha cash games as well as fastfold poker games. PartyPoker will also be adding Sit & Go and Scheduled tournaments to the app soon.
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WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN CHOOSING A REAL MONEY WP POKER APP
Is this poker app U.S. friendly
We are still in the infancy of the mobile poker revolution. Most of the current batch of poker apps have only been developed over the past year or two so they still don't offer the same level of features that you would find from a Mac or PC poker client. Each of the mobile poker rooms have their strong and weak points, so when you're choosing a poker app for your Samsung Galaxy, iPhone 4 or Nokia Lumia 520, it is important to first decide what features are crucial to you. Here are a few question that you should ask yourself.
IS THIS POKER APP AVAILABLE IN MY COUNTRY?
If you live somewhere like the United States of America, the choice of poker rooms open to you is quiet limited. There is little point wasting time downloading an app and going through the registration process if you can only join the play-for-fun tables. We've put together a guide to United States mobile poker sites so you can see at a glance which apps will allow you to play at the cash tables.
IS THIS POKER APP AVAILABLE ON WINDOWS PHONE DEVICES?
Just because a certain mobile poker site works on your friends iPad or Sony Xperia, it doesn't mean that it will work on your Nokia Lumia 1520. Since iOS and Android are the two biggest smartphone operating systems, some poker rooms only develop native (installable) poker games for those devices. To cut down on development costs and avoid geographic restrictions, a growing number of poker websites are creating web based apps that can be played from any Chrome, Safari or Internet Explorer browser.
WILL I WANT TO PLAY SIT & GO OR MULTI-TABLE TOURNAMENTS ON MY PHONE?
It might be easy to presume at this point that all mobile poker rooms offer some kind of tournament play but that is not the case. A number of poker sites still only offer ring games, so if you're a tournament fanatic you had better do some research first. Of the current batch of Windows compatible apps, only Carbon Poker (Sit & Go) and Terminal Poker (Freerolls/Buy-Ins) offer tournament functionality.
WILL I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY AGAINST MY FRIENDS?
While it's nice to sit down at a table of strangers and take them to the cleaners, sometimes you just want to be able to play a few relaxing games of Texas Hold'em or Omaha against your mates. Unfortunately, many Windows Phone poker websites only offer automatic seating so you're not able to choose which table you'd like to play at. Others are more user friendly and allow you to search for your friends player names and take a seat at their table.
IS THIS POKER APP AVAILABLE IN MY COUNTRY?
If you live somewhere like the United States of America, the choice of poker rooms open to you is quiet limited. There is little point wasting time downloading an app and going through the registration process if you can only join the play-for-fun tables. We've put together a guide to United States mobile poker sites so you can see at a glance which apps will allow you to play at the cash tables.
IS THIS POKER APP AVAILABLE ON WINDOWS PHONE DEVICES?
Just because a certain mobile poker site works on your friends iPad or Sony Xperia, it doesn't mean that it will work on your Nokia Lumia 1520. Since iOS and Android are the two biggest smartphone operating systems, some poker rooms only develop native (installable) poker games for those devices. To cut down on development costs and avoid geographic restrictions, a growing number of poker websites are creating web based apps that can be played from any Chrome, Safari or Internet Explorer browser.
WILL I WANT TO PLAY SIT & GO OR MULTI-TABLE TOURNAMENTS ON MY PHONE?
It might be easy to presume at this point that all mobile poker rooms offer some kind of tournament play but that is not the case. A number of poker sites still only offer ring games, so if you're a tournament fanatic you had better do some research first. Of the current batch of Windows compatible apps, only Carbon Poker (Sit & Go) and Terminal Poker (Freerolls/Buy-Ins) offer tournament functionality.
WILL I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY AGAINST MY FRIENDS?
While it's nice to sit down at a table of strangers and take them to the cleaners, sometimes you just want to be able to play a few relaxing games of Texas Hold'em or Omaha against your mates. Unfortunately, many Windows Phone poker websites only offer automatic seating so you're not able to choose which table you'd like to play at. Others are more user friendly and allow you to search for your friends player names and take a seat at their table.
