Zynga, the social gaming platform that debut to snowballing success on Facebook, has launched its long-awaited real money online poker client for players in the UK. With the official launch taking place Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Zynga Poker Plus, as the site has been named, offers both an instant, online, browser-compatible, no download version and a downloadable software skin for their acclaimed poker room.
Last October, 2012, Zynga, Inc. partnered with Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment. Now, by launching its new real money online poker site, Zynga Poker Plus, on the Party Gaming Network, Zynga (and its players) will share in the player pools of Party Poker, WPT Poker and bwin, among others, with access to the same player rewards available to players on those other sites.
For anyone familiar with playing at Zynga Poker on Facebook, the look and feel of Zynga Poker Plus will be familiar, down to the sultry red haired, red dressed “spokesmodel” avatar greeting players to the site — the major noticeable difference being — of course — that now they’ll be playing for real money instead of play money.
While the Zynga Poker Plus real money platform is currently only available to players in the UK, Zynga has already submitted its application for Nevada gambling license, where intrastate online real money poker has recently been legalized.
Zynga Poker was Zynga’s second highest grossing game on Facebook, second only to Farmville, generating nearly $217.5 or almost 20% of Zynga’s revenue from online gaming.