PlayPokerGO Reviews

So the gameplay is fine, but beware the scam. When you open PlayPokerGO it asks you if you want to spend real $ in the in-game store. The pop-ups have an X to click but it’s designed to be missed… clicking near the X makes you open the pop up instead, and if you just so happen to unlock with your face or double tap… you inadvertently spend $99 on in-game currency. They could make the X more clickable but it’s by design — Apple, I thought you looked out for stuff like this!

Has a lot of good quality’s such as the modes you can play.(Tournaments, Final tables, cash games, etc.) …BUT, lots of issues, randomly logs me out ALL the time, constantly pulls up ads that you can’t stop or exit out of it just takes you to the verification of payment screen trying to trick you into accidentally buying something(WHICH IS A SCAM), Has no chat bar so you cannot communicate with other players except for emotes, no social capacity as in friends list or keeping up with other people chip counts/tournament winnings/etc.,

My biggest thing is the payment scam. If it doesn’t get fixed and taken off immediately I will move back to WSOP. Scamming is scummy.

Doesn’t matter what’s in your hand - there is a player to beat it and usually the same incredibly lucky guy. I flopped trips, he had nothing but winds up catching the river. After this, or similar, happened three times I sat back and watched. He was a bot and would bet or call with nothing yet win more than 60% of the hands. They want you to purchase chips and you will not compete, much less win with any consistency otherwise. I’ve been playing Hold ‘em for decades and this is a farce.

Don’t use this to grind for RL because the deal is designed to motivate you to but chips. There are so many things that aren’t realistic: more than once I’ve seen Quads 4-5 times in as many days, more than half the time the flop has a pair on the board or 3 suited cards, tables rarely fill and frequently have multiple players “sitting out” so you end up heads-up against a bot that always successfully chases a flush. It’s not that you always lose, rather they use psychology to balance lose/reward to prompt players to buy chips. When it’s your time to lose, you just can’t win unless you coerce another real player to fold a better hand. If you have a flush or straight, the bot will have a higher one or a full house. If you have pocket kings, a bot will have Aces. If you have Aces, the bot will get a set. Unless it’s your turn to win. Good luck pairing on the flop with a high pair It’s still fun when it’s your turn to win

Do not play or definitely do not buy chips, I played for months and did just fine, they ran a special for $4.99 for several million, I bought into the deal and then magically I started getting beat real bad on bad beats, I would get amazing cards and lost every single time to crazy cards like Jack 4 off suit, it has to be bots playing to beat you to get you to buy more chips, the computer they have set up is designed to frustrate you and beat you Everytime on your premium hands. Trust me 100% go play WSOP or something entirely better then PlayPokerGO that was programmed to manipulate you to buy more chips.

I have been playing hold ‘em for over 30 years, and this game (when sponsored up to last month) for over 5 years. This isn’t poker, it’s odds defying. Random? Baloney. What kind of ‘poker’ flops quads on 4/10 hands consistently? Or pays off donkey calls consistently. EVERY river yields a less than 5% chance win - more boats than the navy. More straights than Mormon church. Since they lost WSOP, and made this abomination, I have lost over $120M chips trying to play quality poker. Can’t be done. Save your money, run away. I’m over it - deleting this ap. Wish I could do <1 star.

Social gaming like this only has the host platform to make sure it’s being honest. But the host gets 30% and some might call that a conflict of interest. Since only the developer and the host get the real money you spend buying pretend money to bet, it isn’t considered gambling. So instead of using an authentic random number generator, they can use a program to manipulate the game and maximize their revenue. Some might call that cheating.

Finally, when you see a player call all in with 8/2 off suit, you might be thinking they’re just a bad player. But when they beat pocket aces maybe you should be thinking, what did they know that I didn’t? 🤔

Bad beats or bots…the end result is the same.

Great poker action, only thing I'd change starting out is hard to get in the bigger games because you get very minimal chips with your free spin every 2 hours! You don’t even get the daily free spin any more 99ents if you want it. The loyalty rewards points are ungodly ridiculous, 4000 rubies for 400,000 coins. , not real poker bad beats galore. I went all in with kq of spades only to loose to j 3 off suit that I had called someone else’s all in betwith , donks galore.

Just lost about all my chips to a donk player that beat me on the river with 2 pairs vs my king q diamonds. I’ve never seen so many bad beats, I go all in with pocket queens on the flop is q 9 5 turn 10 , river Ace too loose to a river , I know I didn’t have the best hand but too loose,bit on the river like that , I’m sorry not random at all.

Raise with crap and win, raise with good cards loose!!

What PlayPokerGO is doing multiple times which I have screen recordings is to slow down your connection speed when you have a good hand and winning too much. Not Cool! I caught you too many times. Please report to have PlayPokerGO taken off PlayPokerGO Store. I will not tolerate this nor should anyone else. Stop it today! I will be sending to Apple my screen recordings to show how you are cheating! Stop it. Word to the wise. The cards from what I can tell are being treated correctly but check out what happens to your speed when it times you out when you have Aces and or any other high cards. Shame on you! Don’t try to deny it. It’s too overwhelmingly obvious. Shame on you. You need to be punished financially for cheating your customers. Stop it today!!

In app Cheaters to the Max ! Do not! I repeat do not get this game. This game needs to be reported!

I play poker at casinos and local tournaments. I have never seen so many bad beats in my life. Like last card bad beats when you have them dominated pre and post flop only to lose on the river card. Of course most of these players really don’t know how to play poker holding onto bad hands and getting bailed out. In real life they wouldn’t last 5 minutes at a real poker table. So it’s fun for a break but don’t expect even the most skilled player to be successful here due to the “all in with a 4/6 off suit” against pocket kings but bailed out by hitting a straight, time and time again. Lol

You will get a lot of good cards that will hold up in the first 5 days or so. After that you will get the same cards but sucked out on regularly. Also, expect the river to be the determining card 85% of the time and will always swing to the weaker hand. Just my observations, but I’m sure everyone will agree. I’m sure if you buys chips, you will do well…just like the others. Tournaments will always make things exciting with weaker cards winning more. In order to rack up chips, best bet is to play cash tables.

Update 24 hours later:
Bad beats have gotten way worse, proving they do control cards.
Have you ever flopped quads and gotten beaten by runner runner quads in real life? No, it’s happened twice to me since 1st review.
Also, just got beaten by a flopped nut flush with runner runner straight flush.

Such a fun realistic site.

After a few weeks of playing on this site I have seen more bad beats than any normal expectations could reasonably consume. Tournaments coolers are to the point that it becomes obvious they want to move the pace along and open open up space. Don’t get me wrong a few have come my way but one and two outers, aces being broken, etc. etc. etc….time after time.
Bottom line is it’s free and you get exactly what you pay for with this one.

There are more bad beats than in real life. It happens so much that I decided to count the amount of bad beats in a tournament, I couldn’t believe that I literally counted 16 bad beats in the tournament that I played in and that was just on the tables that I was on. I lasted 53 minutes and had to laugh because I was taken out by a bad beat (my pocket kings lost to a flush when the river was the 4th club on the board making my opponents flush). There were over 300 players so there were at least 40 tables. Imagine how many bad beats there must have been in total. It’s fun for a little while but then you will find that it’s kind of predictable. Basically, you have a good chance at winning with a bad beat so it doesn’t make sense to fold your hand even if your percentage to win is low. For example you have pocket Aces…flop is Ace, 3, 4…other person has 2, 7…A Five (5) will most likely come on the turn or the river so the person with the 2, 7 will probably stay in and win wit a straight to beat the trip Aces. It truthfully happens way too much on PlayPokerGO. Like I said, it’s fun for a little bit but it really is unrealistic.

This is actually a fine app to lose yourself into every now and then. My main complaint is it logs you out every now and then and when you try to log back in it will not recognize your log in so you have to create a new password. This is annoying and unnecessary. If real money was being used and someone could hack into your account then I could see why this happens. Every time this happens I say I’m done with PlayPokerGO. I’d been on and off PlayPokerGO a couple of times today and then I try again and guess what??? Logged out!! This time I am done for sure. There are so many other things and can and should be doing.

It’s free you say what’s the big deal. Built my pot up to 14 mill then it started couldn’t win never bought any chips for cash, so they shut me off couldn’t win a hand , people would stay in and catch with nothing and beat me plus they always had a better hand and beat me. Definitely rigged, yes you get beat like that once in awhile but not for three months straight. I’m done everyone good luck having fun on this site.🤮

Edit: FIXED (see below)

App worked fine pre iOS 14.x
I then ‘upgraded’ to iOS 14.x and I get the message “Unstable internet connection”.
Then if I disable my WiFi connection and use cellular data it works fine and can play at tables. While sitting at a table I then turn on WiFi again and it immediately says “Unstable internet connection” or PlayPokerGO crashes.
You need to fix the WiFi portion of your app so it works with iOS 14.x.

And on top of that you need to stop rigging the hands. I’ve never seen so many pairs on the flop ... or bad beats for that matter. Completely unrealistic.

Edit:
Contacted support and for some reason during the upgrade to IOS 14.x the ‘Local Network’ setting for PlayPokerGO got disabled.
Go to Settings and scroll down to the PlayWPT app. Check to make sure the ‘Local Network’ setting is enabled.

I really like PlayPokerGO . However, wish we can communicate with the other players besides emojis, it would make the game more real thus more enjoyable. Love the tournaments but I feel like I’m playing against the computer at times. And how about avatars that are more inclusive friendly not everyone is white. A work in progress and I’m sure you guys will get it right.

I have played poker on several poker sites and i find this site to be the most fair. When a person plays a lot of poker hands over the years… you can tell when its rigged. This site is fair and i encourage other poker players to tell their friends about this site and make it your home game 👍🃏

I have played for years and always in the lowest man range. I thought that would be good practice a real game. Today I started with $20k game on 2 occasions won big in both. The reason is I placed safer , going out faster rather than just chasing a good hand. A lesson learned, I believe.

Just wish we could talk to each other.. I know the reason you don’t allow it because there are some real jerks,.. but I really think these players would not talk bad after playing on here …

Just a thought.