Finding Mac poker rooms has always been a difficult task. Even 2-3 years ago, very few online poker rooms were offering the downloadable software for Mac and the only best option was to play at one of the few online poker rooms where the option of ‘no-download’ software was available. Then, things stated changing as more and more poker-sites realized the increasing demand of Mac-poker.
Most of the best mac poker sites provide stable and no-download software same in quality to the downloadable poker clients. BwinPoker and PacificPoker are two best options in this regard and both of them run on Java Platform.
With the increasing demand of Macs, many websites have naturally gone one step further and now provide downloadable software for Mac users. The best of them are FullTiltPoker.com and PokerStars.com, with Full Tilt the first to offer poker for Macs in the year 2006 and PokerStars following shortly after that.
If you’d still want to play at poker-sites that don’t offer Mac poker software, there are other options as well. You could use a PC emulator – Virtual PC and iEmulator are quite trendy and works quite well, but might slow down your computer a bit. And, with its launch of Leopard, the new version of OS X, Apple also launched Boot Camp – software that powers Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP along with Mac OS.
Finding Mac poker rooms has always been a difficult task. Even 2-3 years ago, very few online poker rooms were offering the downloadable software for Mac and the only best option was to play at one of the few online poker rooms where the option of ‘no-download’ software was available. Then, things stated changing as more and more poker-sites realized the increasing demand of Mac-poker.
Most of the best mac poker sites provide stable and no-download software same in quality to the downloadable poker clients. BwinPoker and PacificPoker are two best options in this regard and both of them run on Java Platform.
With the increasing demand of Macs, many websites have naturally gone one step further and now provide downloadable software for Mac users. The best of them are FullTiltPoker.com and PokerStars.com, with Full Tilt the first to offer poker for Macs in the year 2006 and PokerStars following shortly after that.
If you’d still want to play at poker-sites that don’t offer Mac poker software, there are other options as well. You could use a PC emulator – Virtual PC and iEmulator are quite trendy and works quite well, but might slow down your computer a bit. And, with its launch of Leopard, the new version of OS X, Apple also launched Boot Camp – software that powers Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP along with Mac OS.
By Pankaj Gupta
Pankaj Gupta writes for Online Poker Play, an in-depth online poker guide to learn how to play poker online and providing complete reviews of best Mac Poker Rooms of the gambling industry.