Playing Online Poker on the Apple iPad

Online Poker on iPad as Mobile Gaming Advances

With the launch of Apple’s newest toy the iPad, this opens up a new online gaming system platform to play your favorite poker games on. This highly mobile device will allow a new poker experience unlike any other. Although not completely positive on the specs, it does not look good for poker players as they are only accepting apple app only downloads on the iPad.

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As you can see, the iPad is basically bigger, faster, better, stronger than the iPhone. Unfortunately for us poker playing fools, there are a couple of problems:

• No mobile connectivity means we need to be in a Wi-Fi area to get online.
• Since the iPad is built on the same mobile platform infrastructure as the iPhone, it looks like the device will have no support for flash or java browsing.
• Apple only allows installation of apps from the Apple App Store.

If we can’t install a native poker app, and we can’t play browser based poker, the only option left is to play poker through a remote computer connection, like we did with the iPhone.

The Advantage of the iPad will be its increased speed (a faster processor, and assumed doubled RAM), a larger screen (able to fit one full table at a readable resolution) and a quicker Wi-Fi connection (assuming you’re in a wireless zone running an “N” network).

In short, don’t expect to play any poker on the iPad without using a roundabout “hack” method. Since virtually all iPhone apps will work on the iPad, the exact same system used to play poker on the iPhone should transfer over.