Mac Poker

USA Real Money Poker For Macintosh Users

If you live in the USA, and you're a Mac user, and you want to play online poker for real money, what should you do?

The two best options for USA Linux poker players looking for real money games are:

Both sites provide the kind of real money player volume to make online poker interesting (and profitable), and they're the only two sites with any significant amount of player volume to do so. Both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker offer a fully downloadable, Mac compatible poker client which offers all the same software features as their Windows counterparts. Both poker sites have excellent reputations for fairness and integrity. Multiple poker pros represent both sites, including poker players like Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer at Full Tilt Poker, and poker players at PokerStars like Barry Greenstein and Daniel Negreanu.

I don't recommend PokerStars over Full Tilt Poker or vice versa. I think most Mac poker players would be well served by downloading both poker clients and actually playing at each site before deciding. Honestly, both sites do an excellent job in every way, and having both PokerStars and Full Tilt available to you at any time will also improve your game selection, since you'll have more options to find the poker game that best suits your needs.

Full Tilt Poker For Mac

One of the biggest selling points of Full Tilt Poker for Mac poker players is the tremendous new player signup bonus available. The first deposit you make is matched 100% up to a maximum bonus of $600. That's a way to build a decent online poker bankroll without investing a ton of cash upfront. And if you're a good poker player, you should be able to parlay that initial $1200 bankroll into something much larger without a lot of effort or time; Full Tilt Poker is loaded with soft games.

Full Tilt Poker is represented by poker players like Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Phil Gordon, Erik Seidel. Clonie Gowen, Jennifer Harman and dozens of others.

Full Tilt also offers great promotions like their points based loyalty program, where points can be redeemed for merchandise or tournament entries, a $100 refer a friend bonus, qualifiers to live high stakes poker tournaments, daily double tournaments, and prize pool guaranteed tournaments.

The Linux compatible Full Tilt Poker software can be tried out for free on the active Full Tilt play money tables prior to making a deposit.

Click here to visit Full Tilt Poker now.

PokerStars For Mac

PokerStars only offers a $50 deposit bonus for new Mac poker players, but they make up for a rather chintzy signup bonus with the best frequent player points program online and the most players and biggest poker tournaments online. The PokerStars Sunday Million has become legendary, an if you want to play in a tournament every week that's similar in scale to the World Series of Poker, that's the place to play. It's only a $200 buy-in though, but most weeks over 8000 poker players participate in the event.

The PokerStars Sunday Million is the largest regularly-scheduled poker tournament in the world.

PokerStars is represented by some great pro poker players too, including Joe Hachem, Vanessa Rousso, Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, and Barry Greenstein. They have a sterling reputation for integrity and customer service that no other online poker room can compete with. And everyone who works with or is associated with PokerStars are really nice people too; I've met and worked with several of them.

The Linux compatible PokerStars software can be downloaded for free, and you can try their software using the play money games before launching a real money online poker career.

Click here to visit PokerStars now, and use marketing code POKERMAC to get your free $50 signup bonus.

You can find more details about poker downloads here, especially for Bodog, Full Tilt, and PokerStars. The site focuses on how to download poker software, and it isn't aimed specifically at Mac users, but it's pretty useful. (And it does include some information about Mac and Linux users - it's just not focused exclusively on that aspect of online poker play.)