Yesterday BWIN came out with the big news of being the first one out there launching a iPhone app for real money poker! After flash version poker sites like switch poker (which is not an official iPhone App) it seemed that BWIN somehow passed the test of Apple’s strict selection in what App is permitted and what App is not.

This is also the reason BWIN is starting out only in the UK and Austria, plans are to expand this list of countries quickly.

Because BWIN is the owner of the Ongame poker network expecations are that other companies offering poker at this network will soon follow BWIN in offering this great iPhone App.

A full review off this BWIN iPhone App will follow next week, we just could not waiting breaking the news to you!

Visit the App Store and get it now.

See article: egrmagazine

Full Tilt Poker just released the beta version of the new mobile app offering rush poker for mobile phones.

1. Create a Full Tilt Poker Account (allready have one? go to step 2).

2. Go to: fulltiltpoker/mobile/ and login.

3. Play rush Poker on your mobile!

Is your mobile phone ready for Rush Poker?
The rush poker application is a flash based program that needs Flash v10.1 on Android 2.2, in case you are in doubt about your phone please check the list with phones at Full Tilt, like stated any phone with 2.2 Froyo build or higher should be fine.

Selecting a poker room is just like picking out a fine suit or elegant dress. You want something that suits the occasion, but also something that compliments your own features; something acquiesce to your personal taste, but also something that makes you stand out amongst your peers. That last thing you want to do at an online poker room is blend into the crowd of mediocre players.

To select the right poker room, you have to ask yourself what it is you want out of your online poker experience. Winning, obviously, but what else? Are you a better cash games player, or tournament player? Maybe you like a mix of the two.

What games will you play?
What kind of tournaments suit you best? Do you do well in the early rounds, but falter just before the bubble? This won't do at all in a standard tournament structure, but in bounty tournaments (a.k.a. knockout or head-hunter tournaments), it could prove amazingly profitable without even finishing in the prize pool.

What about cash games? Do you like the simple NL Holdem or Omaha tables, or a road less traveled, like Stud, Draw and Lowball games? Not every online poker room has a large selection of poker variants, while the largest poker rooms tend to have the best variety.

What limits will you be playing?
Stakes are another thing to consider. Most poker rooms have micro-limit stakes that start at $0.01/$0.02, but not every site is going to offer the same high stakes action. One poker room might offer its highest stakes at $100/$200, while others scale up as high as $2,000/$4,000.

Do you consider yourself a fish, a shark or an all encompassing poker strategist? If you say fish, you need to stay away from the real money online poker tables altogether until your skills improve! As a shark, you are eating the fish, but may have a harder time against other sharks like yourself. Sharks play best at low to mid level stakes where most of the competitors are inexperienced, unskilled poker players. A true poker strategist will adjust their game to overcome any oppositional situation.

This information will help you to select a poker room by the type of player traffic that frequents the tables. Some networks are well known for their loose, fishy player base, while others have tighter competition. While building your bankroll and developing your poker strategies, hunting the fish can be a perfect gateway to exponential success.

But why would a poker player choose to face tighter competition, when there are so many fish out there just waiting to have their chip stacks plucked from the sea? Because it translates to higher stakes games, a tougher challenge, and further growth in your poker education and skills.

If you've ever pictured yourself seated at the final table of the WSOP Main Event, you're certainly not going to get there by playing against an ocean of fish, nor will you find very many fish at a WSOP table, early rounds or not.

Discovering the level of opposition is a simple matter of skimming the tables in the poker lobby. The column labeled VFP, VF% or Flop% (viewed flop percentage) will tell you what you need to know. The higher the viewed flop percentage, and the higher the number of players at the tables, combined with that %, the looser the table is. A high VF% with only 2 players doesn't mean much, but with 5+ players, 50% or more is a very loose, fish table.

Make sure the room suits your goals
Last, we mentioned your new attire (poker room) fitting the occasion. So what is your occasion? Are you looking to make a little extra cash while having a good time, to pull in a supplemental income, or to make a career out of this? Career poker players are looking at the long term, and that often includes major live tournament entries.

It takes $10,000 to buy into the World Series of Poker, for example. Why not spend your time in the poker room working your way towards that goal by playing in WSOP satellites? Many of the industry's largest poker rooms offer satellites and qualifiers to the WSOP and other major live events, so if that's your goal, that should be factored into the selection of your poker room.

The first poker room you join won't likely be your last, but if you follow this guide and put a little mental effort into your decision, you can save a lot of time in the long run by learning how to select a poker room.

Finding secure, safe, and stringently regulated online poker rooms is a major concern of those who trust online poker sites with their bankrolls, and their in many cases, their credit cards.

How are the online poker rooms handling privacy issues?

It is concerning because this is an unregulated industry in the United States. While these poker rooms are legally operated, and oftentimes regulated by governing agencies in many other countries, the United States, who in most cases can’t keep it’s nose out of other countries squabbles, seems to have no interest in protecting her own citizens from Internet fraud in the casino and gambling industry.

Maybe that’s a good thing though? I know it sounds crazy, but had the United States came in and regulated, and therefore taxed Internet Poker before other countries beat them to it, maybe we would have learned to depend on that blanket of security? Our money could have been more safely insured, rather than stolen by the government, but we’d have had to pay for that too right?

Besides, this means that there is not a lot of time spent on these issues in the government. It seems to be a taboo subject that no one really wants to talk about anyway, sort of like legalized marijuana. Because of this lack of talk, a number of problems like privacy issues had to be dealt with early on.

Who Should I Sign Up With?

When most people begin there journey into online poker rooms, they wonder which rooms they should sign up for. Privacy issues are a prime concern for most people along with issues about if they will be able to withdraw their money once it is put into the site. Since this is such a gray area in the United States, it makes sense that people would be worried. Since it is so taboo, many people do not want it known that they play poker in these rooms. The best option is to choose a site that many people use and that is well advertised. Those are the big name sites that are frequented by so many people that there should be less worry about privacy.

There are only about 10 online poker rooms still accepting players from the United States, even less for Washington Residents.

If you’re NOT located in the United States the best plan for choosing an online poker site would be to:

1. Use a site like this one to gauge the reputation of the online poker sites you’re considering.
2. If you’re still not convinced, go with a site such as Party Poker that is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange.

Sites that are publicly traded are forced into complete transparency, they utilize the latest in privacy technology, and there are clear consequences for any non compliance.

If you are in the United States:

1. Research United States Friendly Poker sites on a site such as this one.
2. Stick to well known and highly recommended online poker sites.

For those in the United States, the top 2 online poker sites are Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, PokerStars however does not accept players from Washington State, therefore those players are limited to PokerStars as far as the huge reputable sites go.

What Should I Do To Protect My Privacy?

There are things that Internet Poker players can do to protect their privacy at online poker sites. The first of which is to simply learn about phishing, and not fall victim to phishing scams via email.

Protect your own Internet passwords, that’s a big one, all to often people leave themselves logged in on public computers, or give out their passwords and later lose funds from accounts involved.

Some things that really go the extra mile toward privacy protection include the use of a disk encryption utility for the storage of information.

What Are The Sites Doing To Protect Privacy?

Because the poker room websites understand that this has become a bit of an issue, they are working on ways to help you feel more comfortable. After all, they want you to feel free to come and play poker at their site without feeling any threat to your privacy. The competition for players among these sites means that they have had to update to stay ahead. One thing that many of the sites have done is made it possible for you to hid information about yourself from other players. Whereas it used to be much easier for other players to see what your actual name was and what part of the world you are from, this is not as easy to do anymore on most sites. Often you do not have to give the website your credit card number directly anymore. You often use third party payment services to deposit and even withdraw your money from the poker websites.

What Updates Will We See In The Future?

Privacy updates that are coming in the future are a little harder to predict. We don’t know exactly what the sites are going to do, but we do know that things will only continue to get better. They are such tight competition with one another that they have no choice but to update.

Poker enthusiasts are often met with serious, stressful situations. Technically speaking, poker is a game, and therefore should be fun, enjoyable, entertaining! But when you put real money on the line, it becomes so much more.

So to ease the stress and serious nature that sometimes envelop the game of poker, we've decided to throw together a fun, informative article we like to call 'Interesting Poker Facts'. Some of these facts are based on trivia type knowledge, known to many veterans in the business, while others are downright amazing poker facts that few would know.

Interesting Poker Facts

1. Approximately 80 million Americans indulge at the poker tables on a regular basis.
2. The intense popularity of poker can be proven by the fact that over 70 million decks of playing cards are sold annually in the US alone.
3. No one knows the true origins of poker.
4. The youngest World Series of Poker Main Event champion was Joe Cada, at age 21, in the 2025 WSOP.
5. The oldest World Series of Poker Bracelet winner was Paul McKinney, at 80 years old, in the 2025 WSOP.
6. The oldest player to ever compete in the WSOP Main Event was Jack Ury of Indiana, who competed at 96 years of age in the 2025 WSOP.
7. Richard Nixon's first congressional campaign was funded in part by substantial winnings from a poker game.
8. The most common lunch time cuisine, the sandwich, was popularized by avid poker player John Mantagu, a.k.a. the Earl of Sandwich. Mantagu would spend so many hours at the poker tables, he refused to stop to eat. Instead, he had bread and meat brought to him at the table. And thus the sandwich was born.
9. About 20% of all players who competed in the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event (5,619) won a satellite prize package from the world's largest online poker room, PokerStars.
10. In 2025, there was only one, officially licensed online poker room.
11. In 2025, there were over 400 online poker rooms spanning the world wide web.
12. There are 1,326 possible 2-card combinations a player can start with in Texas Hold'em.
13. There is a 1 in 16 chance of being dealt pocket pairs.
14. There is an 8.3 in 1 chance of flopping a set after being dealt pocket pairs.
15. The Rio Casino All Suit Hotel & Casino, host of the 2025 World Series of Poker, takes a 10% rake from the overall Main Event prize pool. The overall prize pool at the 2025 WSOP was $60,043,650, for a total rake of$6,004,365 (the profit taken by the casino).
16. When the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada first opened its doors in 2025, the casino possessed $3,500,000 in quarters.
17. At the 2025 WSOP, Howard Lederer paid Doyle Brunson $3,500 to have Brunson' good luck charm, a black Zippo lighter with the Ghostbusters logo on it (nicknamed "Casper"), and engraved with the name "Doyle", willed to him.
18. Uttering the profaned "F" word loud enough to be heard at the World Series of Poker will result in a 10 minute penalty. Mike Matusow was given 4 consecutive 10-minute penalties in the 2025 WSOP after an argument with the dealer that resulted in him using the "F" word 4 times in a row.
19. Phil Hellmuth Jr. is well known for his childishly moody behavior at the tables, hence his nickname "Poker Brat". Interestingly enough, he is married to a psychiatrist.

Not that long ago, Italy was facing the same issues as the United States in regards to online poker. Although the activity was considered illegal in both regions, a significant portion of the populace was logging onto internet poker rooms to play for real money; an estimated 2 million in Italy.

The difference between the two countries is that the Italian Republic finally did something about it that would benefit the country and its citizens. Italy chose to sanction and regulate online poker. Granted, Italy first tried an ISP block to prevent online poker gambling within its borders, and it wasn't until that failed that the republic went the other route to legalize online poker in Italy.

Whatever the case, the adult population of Italy is finally able to enjoy online poker without threat of legal recourse, and the government is generating massive revenue via taxation of online gambling.

Italy claims a healthy percentage of all revenue from online poker rooms, combined with considerable licensing fees to all internet poker rooms who want legal access to promote their products to Italian customers. PokerStars has been following the Italian online poker movement very closely, and their research discovered that the Italian online poker market would have an estimated net worth of €400 million annually. The taxation of €400 million would be astounding.

Italy's government chose to allow offshore online poker operators, as well as its own local, live poker rooms, to provide services to Italians legally over the internet. On the bright side, casino poker rooms can now present their tournaments online; on the dark side, for operators at least, all tournaments are taxed at about 20% – live and online, prize pool and fees. It's almost impossible for any operator to run a tournament at that rate of taxation and actually make a profit.

For the bigger companies, however, it's well worth it. A large, live casino with 400 rowdy poker tournament players is going to get a lot of cash games action – that's where the real profits are. An online poker room will get plenty of cash game response as well. The tournaments become little more than a lure, while all of the other offerings generate actual revenue.

PokerStars is expected to have the most success as an online poker room serving the Italian Republic. The poker site is so large to begin with, even if they lose money for the first year or two, their other worldly investments will easily keep them above water.

General Manager and Founder of European Poker Consulting, Thomas Lamatsch, estimates that Italy's will smaller online poker operations will have minimal success in the beginning, but that only about ten major poker rooms will make be left standing at the end of the day. These bigger Italian poker rooms can afford to offer the biggest tournament prizes and draw enough traffic to promote higher stakes cash games.

Online Poker Rooms Licensed in Italy
It's more difficult to get into the Italian online poker business because it costs about 30x more than entering any other standard jurisdiction, and requires an Italian-exclusive poker site.

There are currently less than two dozen online poker rooms taking advantage of Italy's new legal poker markets. pokerstars and Party Poker Italy are two of the forerunners, along with Eurobet Italian Poker and SNAI Poker and Games.

Following the early March launch of Switch Poker, the first real money poker site designed exclusively for iPads and iPhones, more people than ever are wondering just how ready the online poker industry is for the mobile revolution in gaming technology. Switch Poker currently only offers six-player no limit hold ‘em, but it is only a matter of time before they and other services offer the full gambit of mobile poker action from satellite tournaments to high stakes heads up matches. Major online poker rooms like

PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker are clearly hesitant to jump on board with the change. However, countless app developers and other entrepreneurs are already opening the floodgates for mobile poker players regardless of whether the big poker sites are ready for them or not.

Full Tilt Poker:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Full Tilt Poker Support.

Unfortunately Full Tilt Poker is not designed for any mobile platforms at the moment, and the executable and program files should not run in this particular operating system as even though a Mobile device may run a slightly different version of OSX, it may be enough to cause substantial problems.

While we can’t say for certain at this point if the client will or will not work on a Mobile device, I suggest against playing Full Tilt Poker on any unconventional device such as this for real money. The processing power of these devices is typically under specifications, and their wireless capabilities are significantly weaker in signal strength than industry standard wifi devices (802.11b, g, and n) found in laptops and desktops.

We are sorry we haven’t been able to provide you with a “Pocket Full Tilt Poker” version of the software at this time.

Best of luck on the tables, and if there’s anything else we can help you with, please feel free to ask. We’re always here to help.

Regards,

James
Technical Representative
Full Tilt Poker Support

The Major Poker Rooms: Use Your iPhone at Your Own Risk

If you contact PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker about how they are handling how this shift in how their players want to be able to play, you’ll get varying explanations that basically add up to “Um…We’ll get back to you on that.” PokerStars recognizes that devices like the iPhone and iPad could possibly be used to play cash games of poker but goes out of their to state that they are not equipped to handle the connectivity and security concerns that are associated with mobile gaming. Full Tilt claims that they cannot really say whether or not such devices may or may not be used to play poker in their rooms but cautions players against attempting to do so. To their credit, Full Tilt does apologize for not having any “Pocket Full Tilt Poker,” but it’s not entirely clear whether they were just being sarcastic. Absolute Poker writes back saying no hablas anglais and asks what an eye phone is for.

PokerStars -

Thank you for contacting PokerStars.

Although we are aware of an increasing demand for a mobile device version of our software, unfortunately it is not compatible with any mobile technology currently available. The security and connectivity required for our real money games are not possible with the operating systems used to run such devices.

It is theoretically possible to play using a device like the Apple iPad, as it has applications which can connect to your home computer via wireless internet, permitting remote control of the programs running on the home computer. However, we do not recommend such play due to the security and connectivity issues involved, and we cannot provide support for such play. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

We may have support for these devices available in the future, if their security and connectivity can be improved.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.

Regards,

Klemen
PokerStars Support Team

If PokerStars and Full Tilt Don’t Do It, Someone Else Will

It is easy to get a sense of deja vu by watching the major rooms like PokerStars and Full Tilt drag their feet on developing mobile platforms for cash games on mobile devices. When online poker and online casinos first started to catch on with public ten years ago, the major names in brick and mortar had an opportunity to use their brand name recognition to dominate the world of online gambling. Instead, they elected to completely stay out of the business and concentrate on the old way of doing business, even when the Texas hold’em boom should have served as their canary in the coal mine. Today, it is tough to imagine how PokerStars and Full Tilt could be in a better position to make the changes necessary to control the market in mobile poker. Instead, it currently appears that they are leaving the market open to developers like those at Switch Poker who know how to take advantage of a chance of a lifetime when they see it.

Dear Valued Player,

Thank you for contacting us.

We just want to let you know that we currently do not have an application for mobile devices, this includes Iphones and Ipads.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further concerns.

Best regards,

Fred Customer Support
absolutepoker

Of the rooms that we contacted during this study, these are the only one’s to reply at all. PKR, given their reputation for advanced technology was contacted, however at the time of the writing of this article they haven’t answered.

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At March 17 the Cavendish Corporate Finance company announced that they have succesfully sold their mobile software company Cecure Gaming to PokerStars.

The company Cecure Gaming has been working on mobile gaming solutions since the year 2000 and they partnered up with T-Mobile in 2025 to offer real money poker to T-mobile users. After partnering with different brands including World Poker Tour and Aces Royal now PokerStars is taking control of the company.

This indicates that PokerStars is looking towards a future in mobile poker.

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