Mobile Poker

With both the explosion of popularity in both poker and cell phones, it was inevitable: you can now play mobile poker for free or real money directly from your cell phone. The most popular variant of poker, Texas Hold'em, is available as standalone software for a variety of popular phones and PDAs with internet access. Mobile poker works just like online poker from your home computer: you view a miniature table graphic on your cell phone display and use your keypad and/or soft keys to input your actions.

While mobile poker won't replace the full experience of online poker from home, it can be an enjoyable pastime while waiting for doctor's appointments, traveling, or have a bit of extra time when you're away from home. Many sites will provide free mobile poker software that allows you to play against real opponents both on computers and other cell phones. We recommend that you confirm with your mobile provider that the small amount of data sent for poker games is included with your data access plan.

As poker for cell phones has become increasingly popular, at least one online poker site (Cake Poker) is offering mobile poker software that runs on Windows Mobile and links to your real-money account. New players can actually take real-money poker out and about with them without lugging around a laptop. As the mobile poker client uses the account login, you can then sign in from your home computer to view your winnings or update your account. It is truly amazing that online poker has evolved to the point where even a computer has become optional equipment. Below are our recommendations for mobile poker sites:

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Cake Poker is currently our recommendation for playing mobile poker on your cell phone. They offer the same poker ring games and tournaments, both for free and real money, that you would find at home with the full software. Cake Poker also supports US players both for free and real-money mobile poker play.

To locate the mobile poker client visit the Cake Poker homepage from our links and click on the "Mobile" tab on the top navigation bar. Cake Poker will then provide step-by-step information for installing the cell phone poker client on your phone.

Currently, the Cake Poker mobile client runs on any Windows Mobile phone with version 5 or higher. Cake Poker also has future plans to support other popular phones such as Blackberry.

We recommend that you have a full mobile data plan included on your phone to run Cake Poker as there will be data sent to and from your phone while running the application.

Our new Cake Poker mobile players also receive a 110% bonus. Positives of this poker room include a loose player base and easy US deposit methods.