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Apr 06
2010

Zynga Poker on Facebook - The alternative is free

Posted by: Christian

Tagged in: Poker , Facebook

Christian

Man playing poker with a pair of aces

 

Some of you may be Poker fans and may not be courage-full enough to play on your own pocket money. Then the alternative is a free poker game, where you don't need installing a client on your computer, as you need to do if you want to play at any real money online or offline casino. It may not be the best alternative to other poker games, but I will always prefer it because it's easy to access as I am always using Facebook.

 

You will be able to play just Texas Hold'em, the best known poker type in the world, but because you have many rooms you won't even wish to play something else, as this is also the most complete poker game. You will be able to choose between 80 virtual casinos and at the time I am writing this review there are more than 400.000 players online. Connecting to one of the casinos gives you lots of tables to sit at, and also the option to sit at Normal or Fast tables. The difference between the two of them is the time a player will be able to think before he should check, fold, raise or call.

 

You can also go and choose playing in tournaments (shootouts, sit'n'gos and weekly tournaments). Each of them has its different features and I recommend trying all of them. You can even win some prizes here, but from many million players it's difficult to be the one. The weekly tournament is the most interesting one, as each week a pot of more than 500 million virtual dollars will split between the top 20 in that week. Each Monday you start with a free 1100$ and make as much as you can to be in that top. If you lose your money you will not be able to play in the weekly tournament until next Monday

 

The third option are the VIP Tables. You can reach them when you really become a VIP because you need 1 million dollars to access that. I can't offer you a view from inside because it seems I am not a VIP yet.

 

Anyway, don't get too excited about this poker, it has its own bad things too. First, there are many amateurs out there and as they don't know the rules of poker they will make stupid decisions. You will get annoyed when you will have to fold a suited 10 10 because someone else put all-in. You will observe at the showdown that he had nothing, but as he doesn't know poker at all, he put all-in thinking that this is the right move. If you will have many million dollars in this game doesn't mean you are a valuable poker player. I've played a lot on Facebook and the things were getting better and better. As I went to play paid poker I realized that the real Texas Hold'em is about more than that.