Facebook has undoubtedly made its name to the networking industry. With lots of applications one can enjoy, it is of no doubt why Facebook is now the hottest networking site worldwide. One of the known application that facebook has is the Zynga Poker. If you were to mention the Facebook poker to many of the serious poker players, you will most likely get scorned and ridiculed. However, on the contrary, the Texas Hold-em from Zynga is the best selling among all the other applications of Zynga. Zynga’s Texas Hold’em Poker has over 15 million of users active each month, which dwarfed known dedicated online poker rooms like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.
With the success of the said Facebook application, the creators of Zynga Texas Hold’em are very impressed of the user’s response making it the number 1 game of Zynga. According to Zynga’s General Manager of Casino Games, Sam Singh the said game is constantly on its fifth place on Facebook and Myspace.
In addition, Texas Hold’em was also Zynga’s first game that turned into an online gaming powerhouse and got the ability to earn more than $100 million a year despite of its being an inexperienced social gaming company that is co-founded by Mark Pincus. It is also wise enough to have the Texas Hold’em, which brought Zynga onto the top has a key social element included.
With the popularity of poker that made it a universal game, millions of players are now playing poker from all around the globe. According the Singh, Zynga’s Texas Hold’em got the inspiration of making one’s “Poker Night” with friends a regular nightly event wherever in the world you maybe.
In 2009, with the cross promotion between Zynga and World Series of Poker (WSOP), Facebook Poker players are given the chance to play at the 2009 World Series of Poker tournament Main Event. Two seats are offered and one of them was able to make it to as far as Day 3 of the said prestigious gaming event.
Singh said that, it would only take some time before a player can finally bid goodbye on Facebook and start making its waves in live poker.
Singh further stated that Zynga’s Texas Hold’em is the largest in the planet, thus he assumes that sooner or later they will see a champion that has sharpened his playing ability at Zynga. In 2009, one of the finalists from Zynga has made it until Day3, making it for Singh to hope that in the next WSOP tournament, one of the winner will be from Zynga Texas Hold’em.
It has been known that Poker became popular when Chris Moneymaker made its way to the WSOP Main Event after he had won in $39 PokerStars satellite and made his way to the tournament.
With what has happened with the Facebook player who made it to Day3, a possible similar boom will probably take place according to British poker journalist Shelley Rubenstein. Carter “ckingusc” King, an elite online poker player who won the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event in 2008 also believe that the popularity of poker in Facebook will bring positive development to the poker industry.