Pokerroom Java review

Now you may be wondering, why on earth doesn’t he just download the pokerroom software, why use the java version? Well my friends the answer is simple. I am a college student who decided to get a mac powerbook g4 for its stability and its slickness, unfortunately macs + poker = trouble. I was told that virtual pc would be able to work well with all poker programs, but as just about any emulator does, it failed miserably making it almost unplayable. Now that leaves me with very few options in terms of poker, so I decided to turn to one of the best and only options available to me: the Java version of pokerroom software. In my other reviews I will write about Bugsy club (which actually has a mac osx software) and pacific poker (which also has a java version).

Ill start off by saying that the pokerroom java application is probably the best bet for people without windows pc’s or those that do not want to download poker software on the computer, however it has major problems. First of all it can be extremely buggy at times. There have been numerous occasions where the program and my games have locked up, causing me to reboot my computer or hightail to the nearest computer to continue my game. I have played with the actual downloadable software and this is not the case on that edition. However my biggest problem comes up when I load numerous sngs at the same time. For some reason, most of the times when two of my sngs begin at the same time two tables do not appear. Instead it becomes one table and the hands and tables are confused. This is a huge glitch in the system. In order to correct this I have to close the window and manually open up the sngs separately, which is a pain.

Also on another note the java lacks many of the cool features of the downloadable software for obvious reasons. It cannot give you statistics of your play, as the download software enables you to keep track of your sessions. Additionally the win percentages when players are all in are not present.

However the pokerroom java version does enable you to play poker with a user-friendly interface and the same graphics as the download version without having to save anything on your computer.


Short version

+ Allows players with operating systems other than windows (or those that do not want to download the software) to play on pokerroom with the same graphics and easy to use interface

- It can be very buggy at times, and does not have many of the cool functions of the download version such as statistics and win percentages of all in players.

Overall: 6/10, it’s the best java version there is, but needs improvement.