PokerStars Brings Zoom Poker to iPhone, iPad And Android

The year 2012 has been proving beneficial mobile poker users as PokerStars has come up with plenty of applications. In the month of January PokerStars launched real money mobile poker in Italy; later in the UK in February; and recently in France in April. While PokerStars is already close to unveiling their mobile poker client for iPhone, iPad and Android, PokerStars has planned to add Zoom poker to their project to the app's already robust functionality early in this summer.

All areas that have access to the PokerStars.eu client are already enjoying the app, and efforts are being put to bring it to more and more regions through their multi-phase release. Since the Android version is not available in the Android Marketplace, so if you wish to have that, you can download it directly from PokerStars.

On the occasion, Jeffrey Haas, Director of New Platforms Mobile & Social Gaming, at PokerStars stated, "We want to cater to players on whatever devices they may have, wherever they might be and whenever they want to play poker." He further added, "Expect to be playing Zoom Poker on your mobile device this summer." However, Hass didn't confirm the exact date of its launch.

The real-money app offers features like support for cash games, Sit and Gos, and tournaments in all games and stakes, and once Zoom Poker is introduced it will bring additional functionality similar to the PokerStars desktop client. Apart from this, the app also provides the advantages like mobile devices' native gestures and hands-on interface. With this players can easily access their devices, which has never been possible before with a keyboard and mouse. This also enables players to play up to five tables on tablets and as many as four on smart phone devices.

Since 2010, PokerStars Mobile has been in the phase of development and it is expected that the app will be unarguably setting a new standard in mobile online poker with its slick app.

Danny Kashti, Head of Mobile at PokerStars expressed his objective and said, "We don't want to force players into a certain behavior, we want to compliment whatever they're doing naturally so wherever people are, if they're traveling or watching TV or whatever, we want to be there."

According to Jeffrey Hass, the mobile poker client will enable players more access to online poker than ever before. He believes that PokerStars has successfully made responsible gaming a priority. He stated, "We've worked very closely with our responsible gaming team to make sure that all the functionality we've put in place in the PokerStars client is also available on the Mobile app."

As the mobile poker client' functions include self-imposed deposit restrictions and the ability to cut yourself off from accessing the site for a certain amount of time. Hass, to assure the security concern, stated, "And we feel like these issues are especially important for the app because players are no longer tethered to their desk so they have more opportunities to play."

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