Is there any doubt that poker has been successful all around the world during the last two decades? The boom that online poker triggered for all card games is still not over yet. On the contrary: new variants are created every now and then. Online Poker is available not only on the PC, but also on the iPhone. You can play poker everywhere and every time. No wonder that poker applications are amongst the most popular features in the net. Perhaps they even are the most popular feature: as of recently, the site “Texas Holdem Poker” is the most popular site of the biggest social network of the world.

Zynga Poker at Facebook

The site “Texas Holdem Poker” has no less than 20,454,526 users that added the site as a favorite. That’s why this site has way more users than the site of the game “Mafia Wars” and the site of Facebook itself, each of them having approx. 12 million users. “Texas Holdem Poker” is run by Zynga, the company that also released the ultra successful Facebook game “Farmville”. Zynga offers its poker application for users that can now play poker with their friends on Facebook. But this site offers more than that. At this site – „Texas Holdem Poker“ – tournaments and special events are announced on a regular basis. Besides, there is a Youtube channel with videos of poker pros, news clips, and recapitulations of poker games on Zynga Poker. Of course, the majority of the users uses „Texas Holdem Poker“ to play poker.

Play Poker at Facebook

In principle, the poker application of Zynga is like any other poker room in the net. The big difference: it is not played for money. Although the user pays for getting chips, there is no payout option. Poker pros and all the other players who only play for winning money may not like this fact. Regarding the fun factor you can’t beat Zynga Poker. Especially the so-called Team Challenges are different from the normal poker games and are a special challenge. When playing these Team Challenges you have to fulfill special tasks together with a team of friends, e.g. you have to accumulate a certain chip count. Texas Holdem Poker can be played on Facebook for free – but you have to search for your credit card, if you want to buy additional chips. However, there is an alternative for free: Instead of paying for the chips you can download an application of a marketing partner of Zynga (e.g. Trip Advisor) and you will get loads of chips for free.