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The Poker Grapevine – PokerStars on Facebook
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2013-02-06 13:29
Social gaming company Zynga has been under assault for quite a while now, and PokerStars have just made a move that may well put the final nail into the coffin of Zynga, at least on the social gambling/poker front. The other day,
PokerStars have made the announcement that they have launched their new free-to-play online poker client, PokerStars.net, on Facebook, thus creating a direct competitor for Zynga’s social poker platform.
According to PokerStars’ head of corporate communications Eric Hollreiser, the move represents but one of several efforts tied to research and development that PokerStars have recently undertaken. PokerStars’ Facebook product is only in its beta stages right now which means that several details are still to be ironed out, but knowing PokerStars and the standards that they represent in regards to
online poker, it is safe to assume that their social gaming platform will easily trump just about anything that's currently available out there.
What we already know about the new platform is that it features a similar look and feel to PokerStars’ free to play PokerStars.net client, in fact it will also feature the popular and innovative Zoom Poker. By that alone, PokerStars have cut light-years ahead of their competitors. Everybody who has a PokerStars account can access PokerStars.net using their existing username/password combination. In regards to using the Facebook-based platform though, people will have to log into their Facebook accounts and access the client from there.
In other news: the New York Economic Development Corporation has nixed the plans that the New York Mets had drawn up regarding the building of a Vegas-style casino right next to the team's home stadium. The Mets casino would have been operated by the Shinnecock Indian nation. Given the fact however that in New York casinos are only legal on tribal grounds, the plan was destined to fail from the beginning.
