Poker Mac

Full Tilt has brought the holy grail of degeneracy to our pockets. Finally. If only I had an android, I could take every one of those fishies last dollars while riding the train to work.

Too bad I’m on an iPhone, and we have no Flash. Soon come, though, no doubt. Either someone will hack an way to use Full Tilt’s Rush Poker Mobile on an iPhone, or Full Tilt will switch to html5. For now, I’m checking out verizon’s website for offers to switch from ATT.

Here are the phone’s that this works with now:

Mobile Devices:

• Acer Liquid Stream S110
• AT&T Captivate (2.2 Froyo)
• Cherry Mobile Magnum HD
• docomo HT-03A (2.2 Froyo)
• HTC Desire (2.2 Froyo)
• HTC Droid Incredible (2.2 Froyo)
• HTC Evo 4G
• HTC Google Nexus One
• HTC Desire HD
• HTC Desire Z
• HTC Sapphire (2.2 Froyo)
• Motorola Droid (2.2 Froyo, 800Mhz and higher suggested)
• Motorola Droid 2
• Motorola Droid Pro / Droid 2 World Edition
• Motorola Droid X
• Motorola Milestone (2.2 Froyo)
• Motorola Milestone 2
• Samsung Galaxy S (2.2 Froyo)
• Sprint Epic 4G (2.2 Froyo)
• T-Mobile G2
• T-Mobile myTouch 3G (2.2 Froyo)
• T-Mobile myTouch 4G (2.2 Froyo)
• T-Mobile Vibrant (2.2 Froyo)
• Verizon Fascinate (2.2 Froyo)

Tablets

• Advent Vega (Not available through Android Market; Only Web Browser Accessible)
• Archos 28 (Not available through Android Market; Only Web Browser Accessible)
• Archos 32 (Not available through Android Market; Only Web Browser Accessible)
• Archos 43 (Not available through Android Market; Only Web Browser Accessible)
• Archos 70 (Not available through Android Market; Only Web Browser Accessible)
• Archos 10 (Not available through Android Market; Only Web Browser Accessible)
• CSL Spice Mi700 DroidPad
• Cherry Mobile Superion A700
• idoPAD Maverick 7
• Nationite Wits A81E
• Samsung Galaxy Tab
• Dell Streak (2.2 Froyo – Tested with Modaco Froyo Beta 1.2)

See you in the Rush Poker killing fields.

One of the annoying refrains frequently heard from PC deniers of Mac supremacy has always been that the Mac is not a gaming machine.  There are a number of reasons for this.  In the early years of development, PCs with Windows had an operating system more conducive to gaming and game development. Because of this and the larger PC marketshare, most game developers designed their games specifically for PCs and Windows, which in turn caused Apple to focus less on games and more on other applications, perpetuating a vicious cycle which left Mac gamers a bit out in the cold.

Since the advent of OS X, however, Apple gaming has begun to catch up.  With gaming being such a huge market, Apple has come around to the idea that increasing support for Mac gamingis an important part of their development strategy.  Luckily, this emphasis has had spillover to the gaming we are more interested in — online poker and casino gaming.  An extremely helpful innovation in Mac gaming technology is the emulator.  PC emulators like Bootcamp, Parallels and Fusion are programs that allow the Mac to run PC programs with little hassle.  With the improvement of second and third generation emulators, poker and casino gaming options for Mac users have increased radically.

Online casino games, like most other computer games started out as a purely PC-based enterprise. Had the prevalence of online poker and other online casino games not grown so dramatically, it might have remained so.  However, online gaming and video poker games quickly became a multi-billion dollar business, and access to more potential traffic became a priority. Crafty online casino operators realized that there was a whole audience of Mac users out there to draw in, and began commissioning Mac friendly versions of their software. Before long, Mac enabled casinos began popping up all over the Internet.

Today, Mac gamers have many options, both for classic video games and online casino gaming. If you’re a Mac user and you’re interested in playing your favorite casino games online, you shouldn’t sell yourself short. Don’t sign up with the first online casino site you find that works for the Mac. Realize that there are a lot of Mac sites out there with different features, graphics, bonuses and options. Look through everything that’s available to find the perfect online casino site for you and your Mac.