Five Underrated Mobile Poker Apps Worth Downloading

Fans of poker know that finding good apps for Android or iPhone can be difficult.
There are literally thousands of poker related apps available and it can be a challenge sifting through a sea of sub-par games.
Fortunately we’ve handpicked five apps that are actually worth the space they take up on your phone or tablet.
We’re looking at less traditional poker apps (sorry Zynga Poker and real-money poker apps) that will appeal to poker enthusiasts.
Most of these apps are free but there are a couple ones that cost a few bucks.

APPEAK Poker

Appeak Poker is one of the fastest growing free-to-play poker networks online.
Over 700,000 downloads of the app have been made and over 70,000 active users daily mean that you will have plenty of competition.
Some of the plusses of this app over others include the option of being able to play trick cards both cash games or sit-n-go’s, the optional four-color deck and stakes available from tiny to nosebleed.
The main cons of this app are that only Texas Hold'em games are offered (which really isn’t a con for most) and no multi-table games are currently available.

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Pai Gow Poker

 

Pai Gow Poker

Come on, at this point you’re probably pretty sick of playing poker. Why not unwind with some Pai Gow Poker?
Pai Gow Poker is a pretty sweet Pai Gow game by MobilityWare.
For those unfamiliar with the game, Pai Gow Poker is a gambling game where you are deal seven cards and you make the best five-card and two-card poker hands.
It’s pretty mindless but it’s a decent way to kill some time and it actually teaches rudimentary hand-reading.
A number of customers complain about the game being rigged towards the dealer but that certainly feels like any casino we’ve ever been in.
The only downside is that it costs $1.99.

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Strip Poker - Eva Angelina

 

Strip Poker - Eva Angelina

If you like strip poker, or have a pulse, then you will probably like Strip Poker - Eva Angelina.
This is your typical strip poker game where you’re playing against Eva and if you win, she takes off clothes. If you lose, she puts them back on.
Simple as pie. And everybody likes pie.
The pros of this game are obvious. Hot women, poker and more hot women.
The cons of this game are that marked card tricks the women don't "bare all" so to speak in the game.
It's still fun but, let’s be honest, not quite as fun as a real strip poker game.
You could also say that not being able to play against others is a con, but most people don't play strip poker online to share their game with others.
You won’t find this one in the squeaky-clean Apple app store so it’s limited to Android users.

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Poker Cruncher

 

PokerCruncher

A poker app that’s actually useful?
PokerCruncher is a surprisingly robust app by PokerCruncher LLC that gives you the ability to brush up on virtually any odds related to poker.
Unlike competing apps, PokerCruncher will compute your odds with speed thanks to its clean interface and easy to use hand ranges.
You can use PokerCruncher to brush up on your odds if you just played a hand in a casino and were curious if you made the right play.
Unfortunately PokerCruncher doesn’t come cheap and currently costs $4.99.

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Heads-Up Poker Free

Want to work on your heads-up poker game?
If so, you should give Heads-Up Poker Free a try.
The pros to this app are that you can play heads-up poker either against the computer, a friend in the same room over Bluetooth, or you can play online via Game Center.
The cons?
The graphics are a bit cheesy and there are no heads-up tournaments offered.

Tight vs. Loose: One Mo’ Time

The long-term impact of tight verses loose play is a hot-button topic. It’s been debated in chat rooms for years with opinions on both sides voiced with passion and volume.
It’s also a topic gaining in importance because, as noted in a recent piece: Know Thyself: Post-Flop Play Part VI, the games have become a lot looser and a lot more aggressive.
Today’s column is written with my friend Max Weiss. Max and I are members in the Wednesday Poker Discussion Group. The WPDG is a group of poker junkies who meet regularly in Vegas, usually at some joint with a large room and decent food.
All manner of speakers come by and the room is routinely graced with several “bracelets” and folks whose pictures hang in Binion’s.
After trading emails about the relative
marked cards importance of tightening up at the table, we realized that we were approaching the issue differently. I mainly play a single table; Max muti-tables. We soon recognized that these two contexts were very different.
A style that is effective in one can easily lose value in the other. In particular, the LAG game that is erupting all over the internet may not be optimal when multi-tabling.
We argue here for tightening up, sometimes almost beyond reason. There are times where it will be to your advantage to give up playing spots with small +EVs for the sake of greater playing efficiency, lower error rates and reduced variance.
A Quick Example
Let’s take two hypothetical players, Victor, who plays 10% of hands and Vickie, who plays 30%. Victor relies on cards, positional play and his tight image; Vicki on her loose image and post-flop abilities. Both are positive EV players with similar bankrolls and life styles.
Victor will miss opportunities, mostly ones with small +EV but will gain by staying out of difficult situations, stealing more and bluffing more successfully.
Vickie will lose money on the bottom 10% (or more) of her hands, no matter how skilled she is but will get paid more on her good hands and be able to make more value bets in certain situations. And it’s not unreasonable to think of them ending up each year with the same sized bankroll.
Okay, that’s obvious. “What,” you ask, “is the point?”
The point is that we presented this example with the implicit assumption that both are playing live. This relationship between these two canonical players changes with online multi-tabling.
Vickie may now find that those small +EV hands whose gains come at the meta-game level will lose their glow. When you’re playing six tables things get complicated and messy.
These hands require a good bit of thought and thought extracts its metaphoric pound of flesh. It increases stress, wears you down mentally and, above all, it takes time --- and time is the enemy of the multi-tabler juice cards.
Victor, who is prone to tightening up under duress, cranks it down further with each new table he opens. He may begin to do things like muck hands that have, theoretically, +EV because of these same psychological factors.
To see this, let’s give them each AJ off UTG in a $1/2 NL game. This hand, for most decent players, has modest +EV and in a live game or a single-table we expect both to play it, albeit differently. But if they’re playing six tables things will likely change.
Vickie will probably play it, maybe even more aggressively. Victor will muck it. Both will gain; both will lose. Both styles can be made to work; both are found in professionals.
But psychology favors Victor’s path. When multi-tabling you want your decisions to be as routine as possible. You’ll experience less pressure and be able to sustain high levels of play longer. The average Victor will able to play solidly longer than the typical Vickie.
By following Victor’s lead, the swings will be damped and, because you are making fewer tough decisions, your error rate will stay low. And, critically, you will rarely suffer one of those catastrophic “cascade failures,” where warning bells from other tables start ringing, tables start timing out and pots get lost by default.
In short, when multi-tabling it’s perfectly ok to:
(a) get pushed out with marginal hands, especially if you don’t have a good read
(b) get bluffed
(c) muck a good or even very good hand
(d) give up your blinds, even to what looks like a naked steal
Sure, there are plays that can be used in these situations but they do not necessarily have long-term positive EV, not when other tables with equally complex situations beckon, not when pressure is constantly being applied by opponents, not when you’re starting to feel tired.
In fact, their main gain is in the meta-game and in these online situations the role of the meta-game drops.
We appreciate that our point of view here may not sit well with many. That’s okay. We learned long ago that there’s no one way to play this game. Feel free to comment.

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