The Social Phenomenon of Facebook Poker

Your average texas holdem player would be surprised at the massive number of players playing Facebook texas holdem poker every day. Most real online poker sites could only dream about having so many players at their tables. More than 12 million poker fanatics play consistently on Facebook. Think that is amazing? Around 200,000 people are playing at any single time. Not only that, they’re actually buying fake, or “play,” facebook poker chips in order to crush the competition. But what’s the goal? It’s to be the best, of course; to eventually win enough facebook poker chips, zynga poker chips, or myspace poker chips to gain a spot on the top player list.

In case you’re wondering why so many people are investing real money in return for facebook poker chips, be aware that it’s Facebook after all. It’s a social site where you stay in touch with friends and family. So, it may be out of sheer boredom, or just the love of poker that draws so many people into such a money sink. Maybe it’s even the fact these fake zynga poker chips are way cheaper, and are less of a liability, than real cash chips. Some people love poker, but they can’t, or don’t, want to risk losing massive amounts of money.

Another big draw of Facebook poker is the nightly cash games—just like friends would have in real life at each other’s houses. What’s great is you don’t even have to leave your house (or get dressed, for that matter.) No wasted gas driving over to play a card game. You also have the chance to meet new people, in turn gaining new contacts. While not having exactly the same ‘feel’ as playing cards with the guys—kicking back some beers or what not—it does act as an adequate substitute that assures a simple cure for boredom.

After adding Facebook poker to your account, you start off with a bankroll of facebook poker chips given to you. You either build upon it, or lose it. If you do bust out, you have a few choices. There’s an option of buying more of these fake zynga poker chips for real money, and there’s the option of either waiting it out—in which Facebook replenishes your facebook chips stock slowly on a daily basis—or signing up for special offers, in which you’ll gain chips by installing different Facebook applications. But no matter what you choose, it’s about as profitable as playing solitaire.

Facebook texas holdem poker is incredible for beginners. They don’t have to suffer the heartache of losing an untold amount of hard earned cash on their first excursion into the world of poker. It’s like a fish tank in which they can hone their skills before diving into the shark infested waters of real cash games. And the best part, they can do it with the support of their friends. Anxiety free poker is wonderful when you’re only playing with facebook poker chips.

Facebook poker isn’t going anywhere—people love it. It’s a risk free investment that won’t have you attempting to explain to your loved one why you lost this month’s rent. This playground for beginners can also build a foundation for a possible poker career. People can test the waters and decide if they like the game or not. If nothing else, it’s a great way to stay in touch with old friends while also occupying the mind.

Facebook Texas Holdem Poker

The many faces of Facebook Poker Chips

If you’re reading this then you undoubtedly already know just how popular of a game Facebook Texas Holdem poker has become over the last few years. The combined games have tens of millions of monthly users from every part of the world who come together in online poker rooms to duke it out for facebook poker chips. The players at any given table may not speak the same language, they may not have spent the same currency to buy their facebook poker chips, and they may live thousands of miles apart in different corners of the globe, but the one thing they do have in common is a gamer’s drive, a competative spirit, and ofcourse, a love of texas holdem poker.

The popular of this beloved online game has spawned many different developers to try their hand at creating a facebook poker application. Perhaps each successive one will never grow the size and popularity of the first developers to hit the scene many years ago, but each one offers subtle differences that may interest poker players enough for them to give it a try.

Zynga Poker Poker Chips

Zynga poker chips are used in the Zynga Texas Holdem Poker application created by the Zynga Gaming Network. This was one of the first, if not the first application to hit the scene a few years ago and became wildly popular in a short amount of time, benefiting from the near viral growth of social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. Anyone who joined facebook or myspace eventually received an invitation to start playing Zynga Poker whether they wanted to or not.  Unless you blocked the application completely, you probably ended up giving in and playing a few hands with your free zynga poker chips.

Playdom Poker Palace Chips

Playdom’s Poker Palace was probably the second game to hit the online texas holdem poker scene a few year ago. Playdom, who has been at odds with Zynga Game Network in the past over similarities of gaming titles such as Mafia Wars and Mobsters offers a similar suite of popular games such as Sorority Life and Tiki farm that appeal to the same gaming base as facebook poker. Playdom’s brand of facebook poker chips and game interface differs slightly from that of Zynga’s, each having their own unique set of options, customizations and quirks.

Playfish Poker Rivals

Playfish offered their own version of facebook poker chips earlier this year with a quiet rollout of their Poker Rivals application. While Zynga and Playdom released games that slightly differed from each other, Playfish went ahead and revolutionized their entire interface, relying heavily on sharp graphics and extreme customization of player profiles down the clothes they wear and the one liners they can shout at the table. There is even an option to pound your fists on the table or wave them around in the air and adjust your sitting position to try and psyche out your opponents in the game.

Glamble Poker Chips

Glamble poker is a smaller texas holdem poker game that was introduced this year, released by an independent developer rather than a social gaming company. While their interface and options seemed rather standard and mundane, they different from other applications in that they gave new players millions of glamble poker chips rather than the customary few hundred or few thousand facebook poker chips that zynga, playfish, and playdom gave out before them. Their motto “glamblers play it rich” was geared towards players who wanted to see what it felt like to play with a million or even tens of millions of facebook glamble poker chips right from the get go. While this seemed to attract players during the games critical promotional release period, it quickly led to chip inflation which spiraled out of control, with players winning billions, hundreds of billions and even trillions of glamble poker chips within a short period of time due to the sheer influx of new players each starting the game with millions of their own chips.

Gambino Poker Chips

The latest arrival to the facebook texas holdem poker chips scene is another release by an independent developer, proving that you don’t need millions in startup capital just to make a facebook poker game. Gambino Poker promises to offer a less intrusive poker game that lets players gamble with their gambino poker chips without annoying popups and unnecessary gifts and promotions clouding up the game. Their motto “poker as it should be” suggests that their target player is one who is exhausted by the constant bombardment of in game flash animations and promotions that distract from the essence of the game. Their interface is simple yet straightforward, with a cool inner city gangster motif to it, with very little if any flash animations.

      Here’s a satirical parody from Toby Turner about Zynga’s Farmville game on Facebook and how much time players devote to this game. I guess it rubbed him the wrong way, someone should get this man some facebook poker chips.

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Sure I’ve read some weird stories about Facebook Poker players and the lows they’ll stoop to for a few free facebook poker chips, but Facebook’s Farmville fans seem to take the cake when it comes to gaming obsessions..