Archive for month: October, 2009

Start differentiate your online casino and retain your players!

Net Entertainment produce really good browser based casino software and is used by many online casinos. The problem I see is that many of the online casinos using Net Entertainment’s games look very similar when it comes to displaying the games. I am sure that Net Entertainment supply some nice widgets and API’s for the [...]

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Why don’t “for fun” poker sites have iPhone apps? I’ll build my own!

Image 1. iPhone multiplayer poker app I’m starting a new personal project designing a iPhone poker app. There are a few reasons for this: I love my iPhone I love playing poker The big poker sites/networks don’t have any iPhone apps at the moment An iPhone app for the big poker sites/networks could be a [...]

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Add social features and get more players!

Image 1. Top 25 Facebook games in October. (by InsideSocialGames.com) Games played on Facebook have a large user base and I believe it is because of their social features. Letting players play inside Facebook and/or on their iPhone insted of having to go play on a portal is the key. For instance Zynga’s poker have [...]

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Get your players to play more poker by letting them sign in using their e-mail address!

Image 1. Everest Poker’s registration form. Often poker players play on many different sites from time to time. You can help your players to start playing faster by letting them sign in using their e-mail address as their username. Today I registered on Everest Poker and there I had to come up with a new [...]

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DAMN SMALL POKER is a cool “banner” that will attract new players

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Image 1. Damn Cool Poker. Trebax Innovations has a product called DAMN SMALL POKER (DSP) which allows you to put a little interactive banner on your site. The banner lets visitors play poker right on the page just having to give away their e-mail address. At the end when the banner  they promote a real [...]

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When will we see iPhone Apps from major poker sites?

Image 1. When will we see iPhone poker apps? When will we see iPhone Apps from the big poker sites? I know that you can’t play for money on iPhone Apps, but all major poker sites also have a “for fun” site (usually the same url as the normal site but “.net” insted). So why [...]

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Show Folded Cards – Great feature implemented differently

Image 1. Folded cards shown on mouse over. Being able to see what cards you’ve folded is a great feature in many poker clients today and it is interesting to see how the function has been implemented differently. In the image above you see how PokerStars (left) and Full Tilt Poker‘s (right) versions. PokerStars implementation [...]

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Bwin’s “Sit Down” feature in their poker client is great!

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Image 1. bwin’s poker lobby. bwin makes it easier for their players to quickly sit down and play! One of the most annoying things when finding a table is that when you see it in the lobby there are seats empty but when you open up the table to sit down the seat is already [...]

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