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While just a few years ago it was a real challenge to find online poker action anywhere if you were a Mac user, these days it has become a general trend for online poker rooms to offer no-download clients that Mac users as well as people using Linux can take full advantage of.
Since the biggest and most popular poker rooms did not offer such a solution, US Mac and Linux users were pretty much shut out of the online poker arenas where the real action took place.
Nowadays, poker rooms like Full Tilt Poker (which is currently the second biggest in the world) offer no-download Java based clients through which Mac users can connect to real money cash games as well as tournaments. Full Tilt Poker accepts US Players, and what's more, it even offers rakeback (27%) to all those who open their first account at the site.
As a US Mac user, Full Tilt Poker is definitely the place you should head to.
If you were wondering why Full Tilt Poker shot to glory this fast, big things (like continuously accepting US Players) and little things (like making their software available to US Mac users) have all had something to do with it.
Being stuck in a single poker room might not be beneficial for a great many poker players who prefer bonus-hunting to static play. Bonus hunting is about unlocking your bonus as fast as possible and then moving on to another poker room where the feat is repeated. This way, players will play on a continuous rake reduction (as redeemed bonus is always unlocked as a function of the generated rake), but they never hang around a given poker room for too long. While a loyalty reward (like the Full Tilt rakeback ) will retain many players, some will insist on moving on in search of better and more easily unlockable sign-up bonuses.
For a Mac user, going bonus-hunting used to be quite impossible and it's still not one of the simplest things to this day.
Nowadays, a whole many poker rooms offer Mac clients. Among these rooms are PokerStars (the world's biggest), Pacific Poker, Party Poker, Pokerrom.com, Absolute Poker, Euro Poker, Sun Poker, GNUF, Interpoker, Hollywod Poker and Bugsy's Club.
Whenever you're on the hunt for a new Mac poker room, these are some of the features you should consider:
- The general usability of the room. The layout and graphics, and the various features that the software offers. Typically, downloadable software is richer in such features than a no download client, so checking this part out is extremely important.
- The traffic that the poker room receives is also important, because real money traffic is the only true measure of the quality of action that's awaiting you at the felt.
- The softness of the competition. Remember, your goal in poker is to make money, and that's much easier to accomplish against weak opponents than against a bunch of sharks.
- The tournament selection offered. Some online poker rooms only offer cash games through their no download client, which is bad news for you if you're a tournament player.
- Freerolls are free entry tournaments that most online poker rooms offer these days, in one form or another. Check on how easy it is to register for such freerolls and on whether they are indeed entirely free or they cost poker points.
- If you're a bonus hunter, it would be a grievous mistake not to assess the sign-up bonus offered. Also check for loyalty reward programs like rakeback or prop deals.
- The customer service is also something you will definitely want to find in order. If any problem emerges during your stay at the poker room, the customer service should be fully capable of bailing you out.
The Java technology that makes it possible for Mac Clients to connect without having to download anything also makes it possible for poker clients to run on mobile devices. More on that though, in another article. |
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