Playfish is a company that was recently bought out by the giant game company Electronic Arts. They are getting ready to roll out a completely brand new Texas Holdem Poker Game for Facebook which is fitting called “Poker Rivals”. Playfish looks to challenge the long time established texas holdem games zynga’s texas holdem application. With a fresh unique spin with a flashy interface and virtual aspect to the game, where the players can virtualized items such as buildings homes and buying yaughts and vary characters with physical avatars.
The huge popularity of zyngas texas holdem game has meant that it has managed to hld the number 7 spot on Facebooks’s premiere top 25 applications list. Whilst at the time of writing, a impressive 19 million users which goes to show there is no shortage of poker players in online social networking sites. Playfish’s new poker rivals application seems to be aimed at this demographic.
Whilst the game is still in beat, initial feedback is that it looks great and has a smooth play to it. Using their facebook poker chips from the game, players can buy clothes and jewelry to customize their looks and avatars. Also poker rivals allow you to tag players according to their lpay style, a unique feature that lets you keep track of their playing styles. Poker Rivals by far the most detailed and customizable of the selection of texas holdem games currently available on facebook. Play Fish announced that more features are being added and tweaked but the official finalized released. Why not check out the working beta version for yourself and leave feedback. You may play the game here Poker Rivals.