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Taking It Slow With iPad Casino Poker
As soon as you get your hands on a new device or a new game, you want to get the most of it straight away. If you happen to get a new iPad and download a poker app for the first time, you can be stunned by the multitude of new things you’ll need to embrace. Don’t rush with it, because your haste can affect not just the outcome of your first game, but also your attitude to mobile poker in general.
If you have never played poker on any type of device, iPad casino poker may seem to be confusing at first. It’s a good thing that you usually have a choice of whether to play for money or stick to free games for a while. At least you can figure out without hurting your real bankroll which button is for raising and which one is for folding.
Those who are used to playing on their desktops or laptops, usually complain that the quality of the picture and the sound are not as good as they want them to be. Well, naturally, an iPad screen is a bit different from a 27 inch monitor and the sound is different from Bang & Olufsen speakers, but sometimes it’s not the device that has to be blamed. If you downloaded a crappy poker application, it wouldn’t present you with a nice graphics and clear sound even if you could run it on a PC. Look for a better mobile poker room or a poker application developed by a decent provider, otherwise you’ll have to bear with mediocre image and farting noises. iPad casino poker is not that different from online poker, you just need some time to get used to it.
If you play mobile poker for real, you depend on Internet reception. Although Internet coverage is getting expanded at a considerable pace, there are still some places where you will be able to play only in offline mode. If you don’t want to be annoyed by such interruptions, note those places where the signal is poor. Very soon you’ll be able to either avoid this travel route, or put off your real money game till later, when you are at the place where Internet is fully available.
Bright Future For Mobile Casinos
New mobile casinos and gambling applications are springing up each week due to the steady growth of the mobile market and mobile casino industry subsector in particular. Will this trend continue and what factors does it depend on?
The first and foremost aspect of every business is demand. The demand for mobile casino applications and websites is really huge. No matter how much some gamblers enjoy the atmosphere of land-based casinos, most of them are just too busy to be able to go out as often as they want. Needless to say that as long as mobile devices are always at one’s fingertips, people begin to embrace the idea of mobile gambling. Probably the new generations of casino players will not even consider playing any other way.
Mobile casino operators and app developers are in their turn really interested in satisfying the customers’ growing demand. More and more apps are offered for free, which is important because even if the app costs around $1 there are still those who would rather not play than pay. In fact, it is even unnecessary to download anything, because many online casinos offer fully functional mobile versions of their sites.
The emergence of new mobile devices is another factor fuelling the growth of mobile casino industry. App developers take full advantage of the new technology, so the more sophisticated mobile gadgets become, the more advanced mobile casino applications we will be able to download. Today we’re taking advantage of the touch screen technology, who knows what else we will enjoy in a year or two after a launch of new devices.
Another influencing factor is regulation of mobile gambling. It is obvious that every single country is interested in supporting this industry as long as it brings in a lot of money. The main problem now is that governments of many countries are not quite sure about how exactly to control this relatively new industry. Unfortunately, it is gamblers who suffer from the government’s short-sighted actions in the first place and it will remain so until some decent law will come.
Earlier this year, Apple greenlighted real-money gambling apps into their App Store for the first time. Although their policy tends to be changeable, there’s still hope that they will not ban applications that are favoured by millions of gamblers.
GBGC has recently published a report on mobile gambling. According to their calculations, the global m-Gambling market was worth $2.7 billion in gross gaming yield (GGY) in 2010. They expect the market to reach $4.8 billion by 2013, which will account for 11% of the total Interactive gambling market.