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The Poker Grapevine – Facebook to offer Real Money Poker?
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Thu, 2011-12-01 14:37
Let’s face it, ever since it began hosting the Zynga Poker client and drawing thousands upon thousands of players to its play money tables, Facebook has been considered a potentially major real money online poker contender. It now looks like the time has come for the social networking giant to cross that line and to instantly become one of the world’s largest online poker rooms. The Facebook brand of real money online poker may be on offer as soon as 2012 in the UK.
Apparently, Facebook has long been preparing the online poker assault: there have been talks between company representatives and various UK operators, as well as discussions with Gamesys and
888Poker. The plan is a rather ambitions one: the social networking site is looking to offer no fewer than 8 licenses to online poker operations that would like to make their services available on Facebook.
Facebook have thus far refused to confirm their online poker plans, saying that they were always exploring a whole bunch of new ideas.
In other news:
Bodog have become the fastest growing online poker company in the wake of the Black Friday indictments. The way their traffic numbers are shaping up, they’re bound to break into the top 10 of the most popular poker rooms. Their recent success must’ve inspired them to make a move many have long foreseen: they began offering anonymous tables. The aim of the company is to bring the fun back into the game for recreational players, by making it impossible for everyone to gather information on opponents and to analyze individual playing-styles.
Data mining sites will finally be rendered useless, and online poker will hopefully return to its pristine beginnings, when fish could frolic safe in the knowledge that sharks wouldn’t be able to take advantage of them in unfair ways.
The anonymous tables are part of a larger software overhaul, which includes other novelties too. There will be new tournament formats, a rabbit cam, and multi tabling shall be expanded to 20 tables.
