Zynga Poker ™ - Texas Hold'em Reviews

by KS B4

ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem is an absolute disgrace of a representation of poker. You cannot bluff in ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem because it gives players a meter on their screen that indicates hand strength, so even if it is a board you could bluff a better hand off on, you can’t. Either the players are so bad that they don’t know when to fold so they just keep calling, or the hand strength meter gives everything away and ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem will pay off a 5-2 off suit donkey player who has bottom pair on a straight/flushy board. It’s just crazy to me.

Lastly, you have to play FOREVER to get a winning hand. I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to stare at my phone for 30 minutes waiting to just hit a pair or get a winning hand. It’s fold after fold after fold preflop every hand, or you get bored and want to play a hand so you try bluffing a horrible draw, but then you run into the issues I already discussed. You also try sizing bets for value, and some idiot comes in over betting 10m into a 2m pot. I’m done trying to figure ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem out, you can’t win, you will constantly face bad players that you can’t bluff, and you are forced to wait for a winning hand to get chips, and that takes entirely too long. Uninstalling and getting a different app.

by PrnceofDarkness

All I desire to do is play a realistic poker game with statistical normalities. If you wanna play something where a flush occurs every other hand .. royal flushes every 1000 hands then that should be other poker apps. I played this poker app for about a week, even spending money, and so much unrealistic stuff happens it is just truly ridiculous. Consistently I find myself witnessing complete nonsense statistically. Even myself, getting back to back pocket aces on multiple occasions within an hour. It’s just nonsense. Runner, Runner straight cards incessantly. I mean it’s simply baffling why they think people enjoy playing games where things that have real like 4% probabilities happen 25-40% of the time. It’s just unrealistic. And they even HAVE A GAME mode which says short deck. Meaning higher odds for foolishness so why do i have to face it in my normal gaming experience. Game is bad. There aren’t large tournaments. Most of the game modes are three players or five and that’s where it gets so dumb. Playing heads up and seeing flushes and straights 4-8 times in a 15 min period. Have any of these clowns ever played real poker. It’s hard just to PAIR in a real life heads up. Let alone TRIPS, QUADS and straights/ flushes. Happens way too often. BAD game. ARCADE POKer is TRASH

by Britt Rein

New Update: Because I complained, they set my daily streak spin back to 1 when I was at 7 (yes, I spin everyday). Vindictive!!!

Update: Customer support just replied with the same standard tripe as last time. They say it’s for my own good they make these changes. This reads loud and clear that they want to control players!!! No one wants to be controlled. These developers are dictatorial!! While the game is fun, the developers are manipulative in controlling benefits of the game. As I gained more money in my ‘wallet’ they began removing my options. I no longer had the ability to increase my experience points, I can no longer get on the same table as my friends, they upped my table limits, and now they sneakily changed my default limit in tournament games. The last one is the worst because when you return to play a tournament table your bet is almost always set to that of your last game, but every now and then they will slyly move the slider to the maximum limit, so you’re playing more money than you expected (Other friends confirmed the same for them). When I asked customer service about it, they replied that these changes were made to make my playing experience better! Are they dense? These people stoop to childish levels in their desperation to make players purchase chips. It makes for more frustration than the game is worth. Go play another online poker app and leave this deceptive one in the dust.

by Fdrth

Game sets you up every chance it can to give you the wheel on the flop and someone else the nuts draw on the river literally every time. The lucky bonus is completely imbalanced… when I have zero coins it’ll hit 100M consistently and as soon as I use gold I rarely get over 10M. I’ve been playing ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem occasionally over 10yrs+ and I assure you it’s statically impossible how often hands tht are crushed after the flop still manage to win out. This game is 100% rigged and is not fair play. From a player with 1T coins please please please save your money it is not worth spending on this rigged app. I hope this saves people the time and hassle I wish I had back. On top of that ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem charges a rake fee per pot won of around 20% the size of the pot every win. And btw of you bet more than the bet covered they also tax the entire amount bet even if the player doesn’t have enough to cover your all in. Sometimes I’ve raised all in on a 3 bet over the person chip stack to literally get back less after winning than I started with. Split pots are a nightmare and always leave you with less chips than you started with. ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem is beyond a scam please save your time I promise you this is not where you want to spend it. I’m able to see white black and grey in life and I hope this saves anyone able to read this message. It’s is not from a place of negative energy but genuine concern.

by HorriblePoker

There’s no poker in this poker app. Looks like poker, but hands are rife with manipulation. Beauty of poker is playing against other players. Here you playing against algorithm. Algorithm priority is the success of zyngo, not poker. The programing is just part of the problem; FAKE money is the other! When there’s nothing “on the line” why not see it to the river card? Zyngo Players stay in hands that real poker players would never play! And it works too because zyngo is written to reward this play. This is proof the program manipulated and NOT random as advertised. In real poker “Runner-runner” flush or straight has 4% probability; zyngo they happen closer to 40%!
And what about the absurd amount of streaks that never happen at real tables (not legit tables anyway)? And the absurd amount of “near-miss” monster hands (short 1 card)? Oh, but don’t worry you most assuredly will receive the exact card, on next deal, making you feel “oh so close” (Really caters to the mental midgets).
“Random deal”....“random”....“Random” “....you keep using that word, I do not a-think it means, what you a-think it means.” Inigo Montoya...Princess Bride. (R.I.P. Andre)
Its not even fair to call this Bingo, because bingo is purer and more random than this algorithm. Read the top 100 helpful reviews and lucky to get 2.0 stars! Best part of Zyngo is deleting it.

by Joel4747

I have been playing on zynga poker for almost 10 years now and I have to say the latest update is the worst zynga has ever put out. It has so many glitches in it it’s not funny. From floating gifts to disappearing chips as well as getting kicked to the lobby in the middle of a hand when you lose connection, it needs a lot of work. And when you send out chat the font is so small you can’t read it. I’m wondering if they even tested it before they put it out. And worst of all they forced all players to download the new update. The game doesn’t have a ton of ads, but the ads they do have are very annoying, especially when you want to get back to the table quickly after being kicked to the lobby. The graphics and animation have pretty much always been good. Those are a couple of things I really like about zynga poker more than other poker apps. However, zynga’s rake (tax on winnings) is extremely high! They want people to buy chips only to take them back from your winnings. I have noticed they’re taking between 10-15% of your winnings. That’s ridiculously high compared to other poker apps so don’t be surprised when you’re missing 10% of your pot after winning a hand. Please fix the update and lower the rake on winning hands.

by Lovinlife3434

I use to love playing poker but now everything has change. Now when I go to a table I can’t communicate with anyone because they talk a different language. So it’s pretty much no more talking and laughing at a table. Very boring. Also there is a lot of passing of chips on the table. They will sit with max buyin and pass it to their buds while you just sit and lose to them because you don’t have the cards to go max buy in. Another thing a few of my friends have been banned for staying at their tables. I have had 7 of my buds suspended in the last month and they don’t pass chips so not sure what’s going on there??????????????? Plus a lot of my buds have quit playing because of what’s going on, and it’s impossible to make new friends because we can’t understand eachother so I will probably quit soon myself. Update on this all of my friends have been suspended plus myself. I was playing Spin n Win and they jerked me straight out of the game n suspended me. My VIP emailed back that he review my account and summitted it to be reviewed and reinstated. After a week, two more emails I received the standard email how I was buying chips? When as many innocent people they are ripping off.......I don’t think they should not even offer ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem in the Apple store

by D0ZE1

The gameplay & graphics are fine. What made me leave was them draining my bank anytime I sat @ a cash game table. The higher up you play, the more they drain. Had 40M just gradually bleed off during one of my last sessions. After I saw a 100M+ jus disappear, I was done. If you don’t believe me, monitor your bank (they call it your “wallet”) while you’re at a cash game table. You’ll notice it shrinking more and more the longer you stay regardless of what’s happening @ the table. Only way to avoid it was to keep moving to different tables before it happened.

Contacted CS & offered to send them screen caps of it happening - they didn’t deny it. They pointed out the house rake (the amount disappearing was often 20% of my max buy-in and crept up to as much as half. No way that’s rake. And if it is, why is it being taken from my bankroll instead of the pots I win the way rake is usually collected?) and comped me some chips. Was a decent amount. More than I claimed had been drained. But what good is that if they’re just going to bleed you off again? I guess it’s their way of making you buy chips from them. Do yourself a favor and play on a different, more honest app. Literally no other app I’ve played does this.

by YOUNGSUMMA

1. Why are there two versions of this same game in the iPad AppStore? I rated ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem in the past, apparently it was for the "hd" version.......I don't understand what you guys are doing. 2. this Game allows people to go "all in" for $0 and get to stay in the game to have a chance to take the winnings. How do you allow this to happen, an even bigger question, why aren't you fixing this? 3. The dealer algorithm is totally flawed. This game deals out more ace high straights than I've ever seen. The constant re-dealt aces hand after hand leads me to believe that there are only aces in the deck. 4. Please explain the purpose of the tip dealer button? What does your audience gain from tipping the dealer? Should we have to pay the dealer just to win a hand??? just another way for zynga to steal money. This is a very unattractive feature of this game, and needs to be removed. 5. This is the only game that I experience connectivity issues with. I never have this problem with the other 20+ iPad games I play that are server based. I have lost many winning hands because of this issue and I see many other people have too. 6. STOP IGNORING THE COMPLAINTS YOUR PLAYERS ARE PRESENTING TO YOU ZYNGA. THAT'S ALL, good day!

by Joshv_914

I’ve see it too. I’ve played Zynga close to 10 years now. Not only do they have the same boring gifts to send each other & ridiculous avatars, their slot while is definitely rigged. I spin it multiple times daily & never once get a decent paying spin using gold or not. The worst is how there seems to be hot seats. I’ll see the same player hit repeatedly while i spend hours some days just hoping for something better than “one pair”, or see the same player repeatedly win on the river when they could not possibly be that lucky that many times in a row.
Update...today was another example of how rigged this game is. I logged on about 5 separate times for at least an hour each times. In that total of 5 hours and about 100 hands played i only won maybe 5 of the 100. Of those 5 only one was actually a decent hands. For hours it didn’t matter what i had someone else on the table had it slightly better. I even tried the spin and win to change it up....one guy blows his chips and loses so it’s down to me and one other heads up. I bet he won a good 15 hands to my 1. Seeing everyone else complain of this definitely lets me know that this is not a coincidence.

by Dawgestylerulz

It is setup up to create more bet action only way to accomplish this is dealer has to know who has what and that is cheating setup cards no way it’s random gen if dealer is dealing to create more or less action it’s cheating random gen is throw cards in air and deal them as they fall not pick and chose who gets the winning card i get a flush and lose to a full house is almost impossible but it happens every day and not just because you try and say it’s because we play more hands cause I don’t I will play 30 hands win 4 times and have chip lead then lose every hand no matter what until chips are gone then you will win again how is this random gen no way it’s controlled deals to make action but you wil consistently say it’s random gen when all you have to dis play your own game to figure out it’s not random gen I had to file bankruptcy because I played for real money and they cheated me out of thousands and on casino games it’s worse they adjust so you win minimum bets @ $1 50% so you bump bet and lose every bet drop bet to min and you win a little at a time bump bet you lose all chips and every hand but they will swear it’s random gen it’s cheating no matter how you toss it

by OGPopperz

I used ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem to learn the basics of poker, after playing a few games for real money, in real life, though I learned some key things that are different. People on ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem will get you used to the rules of poker, BUT, if you go to a casino ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem only shows you the methods and strategies of dealing with people who don’t care about losing money. Aka, the people who bet wildly and disrupt actual players there to win. These people show major tells with almost their betting alone. Due to the fact they are not at all worried about the money loss. In that aspect this game is perfect for learning to deal with and minimize the losses these types of people could ensue. Play with warning though. At a real game with real people you cannot play like you do in this game. You will lose every time. Coming on to my 18th positive outcome in a row with only 1, my first game, being negative. That is the best information I can give concerning this game. In short, it is great at learning how to deal with the pesky daddy’s piggy banks that will show up to a table, but to play with actual players, you need to play actual games for actual money. It is a completely different mindset.

by Vorpal Jane

Well everyone likes to play Texas hold 'em. And this game lets you choose: what level of table you want to play, tournament or normal play, and more. You specify how much you want to put down as a stake when you get to the table. (Or you can use the default settings.) The kind of things you expect when you play poker. This game is a little glitchy & has some design flaws. The thing that aggravates me the most is that often only the winning hand is shown. I want to see all the players' cards when there is a call, just as I would in real life. You are left wondering if they were bluffing :-\ The worst design flaw is how the buttons to bet change between hands. You can plan on tapping "check/fold" as the configuration is changing and tap "call" inadvertently. Another I really don't understand is why no explanation of how these leagues function. It's all very mysterious & thus somewhat meaningless. All in all a good game worth playing until you go all-in on the wrong hand. 🤗

I’ve played ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem for YEARS but something changed recently. Not only have I lost all my history of levels achieved, but the game is now super glitchy. SUPER glitchy. Last night I couldn’t see the flop, the turn, or the river for an entire hand.

Today I can’t even get ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem to open. Are you guys having a DDOS or something? This is insane that an app this old is so unstable.

by Jellygrape

Good poker app but they won’t fix the basic things that could make it better. First, the “Check” button is right where the “Call” button appears when someone bets or raises. So if you are about to check, you may find yourself calling a bet or a raise - unintentionally. The check button should be offset so this never happens. I have called so many raises I didn’t mean to and of course, none of those have ever won.

Second, you should have an option to show hand or show a card after the table has folded. This is a basic card room move that can keep people guessing even more if you play it right.

Last, I’m not so sure the deal is 100% random. I’m not saying it’s fixed or there are shills, bots or the like, but it’s often amazing how the hands come out. I hate to cast doubt but I’ve played nearly 200,000 hands and have learned to expect the worst bad beats based on the fact that so many of the hands seem to be dealt solely to draw action. In other words, the worst hands catch up more than any live poker room I’ve been in. This could also be because there’s no real money at stake so people with bad hands don’t face the risk of losing real money and will bet, raise and call any and everything.

by Rhehqfqxegrrjeg

Ive been a zynga poker player ever since facebook was the new thing, before smartphones were even relevant. and over the years ive switched to the mobile version and its been really good! however a month or so ago i redownloaded ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem only to discover how escalated the amount of ads are. i mean i understand, free apps need ads for revenue and its only fair but it becomes an issue when an ad plays when you exit a table then again when you play the lottery game. im sorry zynga, but im sure ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem you have is not that reliant on ads for its continued production. whats more annoying is that after the ad is done, my music doesnt play again. I need to manually exit ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem and open my music app to be able to play again. another issue is the “challenges” tab when youre in-game. sometimes, when you complete a few challenges without exiting to the lobby, it lags and stops opening, meaning i can no longer work on the newer challenges. I need to manually exit the table, get baited by an ad, open the challenges tab, collect my rewards and sit at another table. its really annoying, especially when you dont want to leave the table youre playing on.

this is my first app review, ive never written a review before. I did today because these issues are so frustrating. id expect these pesky little bugs from so many new and upcoming apps nowadays, but not from an A-level app that you expect the best from.

by Jaymanzor

Gambling games are fun but once you realize that aspects that are supposed to be luck based are actually rigged it makes it hard to enjoy. The prof is the mega lucky bonus slot machine. Here’s how it works for me. When I have a 10% daily login bonus I end up winning about a million chips. I get like 50-70k, then a x15-20 multiplayer, then the 10% bonus. That’s fine. The problem is when I get to a 400% daily login bonus. Ever since I reached that it’s been the same. Win 20-30k, then a x5-8 multiplier, then the 400% bonus and I win about a million chips. So the idea seems to be that when the daily bonus is low, you win big and get a big multiplier. When the daily bonus is high, you win small and get a very small multiplier so you constantly find yourself winning the same amount no matter what the daily bonus happens to be. Now that wouldn’t be a big deal but since you know it’s rigged in that aspect, you would be smart to assume it’s also rigged in others. Do people who pay more real money for chips get better hands? Will they find themselves catching flushes and straights more often than someone else? It’s all questionable at that point.

by BKaye Henson

I like the game with a few enhancement it good be more enjoyable. I think being able to have control of deleting buddies from list would be good. I heard of people getting their accounts reset and left $1million of their pot on their accounts and thought that was just a glitch until this happen to me for for 33 billion for no rhyme or reason other than what zynga saying for suspicious activity. The most that I did was to change my name several times attempting to avoid unwanted buddies in my list. I contacted zynga asking for what suspicious activity, according to them their policy does not allow for them to give that info. So my thought is why buy chips if zynga can take them at will and no real explanation. Last but not least. It would be nice to see the table buy in and several options as to where to sit and whose is in room before sitting. It use to be that u could do so. This game is not or miss to select tables from lobby Often time zynga send out notifications about get the new update and see this or that and in reality no improvement to the game that any of the players can see, while in fact things seem to get worse. They send out a rate zynga ... Wow! Try fixing the problem and also I had a account that was hacked and I have asked zynga to delete this account for months as I cannot change the password. I get an error report saying that the email account does not exist, I know it does , as I receive emails there everyday all day.

by Magic Dave C

I like ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem but I have 2 issues. 1. I used 2 Gb of data yesterday watching videos getting chips... way too much data...
2. The players go all in way too often. It’s really lame. Can’t play a good game of poker when there’s not much at stake. It’s hard to play for 3 hours building a stack slowly and being selective when people “all in” with a 3 9 off suit. Just wouldn’t see that that consistently in a 4 real stakes game. They wouldn’t last a day. Thing is here they just do it then reup immediately if they lose and sit at same table. Suggestion...if u “all in” and lose you should be rerouted to a new table and banned from the table u currently were on. For a 5 minute period... just like u had to walk to the atm and somebody grabbed ur seat. I just think that that may help with these annoying gnats that get in way of playing a hand. I’m gonna stop playing it’s just not fun they ruined it for me.

Note: I do understand buying the pot but seriously way too consistent with crappy hands that just happen to get the flop.
And if they don’t they are still there 1 hand later doing the same thing....over and over

by Uwillose4sure

ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem has the best option for tournament tables I love em. I do like how poker heat gives you the option to show yours cards to everyone after each hand but I deleted that app because the dealing is crap too many big hands An irritating app but ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem seems decent with dealing. Adding to my review I want to point out that with the tickets we win. It’s hard to build your tickets as it is so when you bet a lot just to reach enough to open the gold safe I don’t think it should give you just the same amount of chips as if you opened the silver or bronze There should be a min amount in each safe I mean really. It takes 30 tickets for the gold safe That’s double the silver. It’s not easy to gain tickets. Maybe something can be done about that. And tournament tables chip winnings You should tell us the amount we win Cause that’s how it’s setup. But you don’t get that amount. You only get half that because it is adding how much you spend to get into the table. So if the table winnings are 100m. You really only get 50m. if you win because you put in 50m. to play So you just make the table seem more exciting to the eye with a bigger pot to win This is on spin and win But overall still good dealing Like playing ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem more than others. Good

by No Nick Name11123

First off I enjoy ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem quite a bit. And these are the small issues I have with ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem . 1) flaw in min buy ins. Let’s say that it’s a 100M buy in with 10M min buy in. You have people sit with min and then go all in with risk of only 10M. Most tables people don’t buy max buy in they buy min. This creates a situation where people that have bought in higher would like to play a hand. But don’t want to risk 10M because of donk player. Or the flop is Q94 and you have AQ. You bet and donk goes all in with 95 and hits a 9 on the river or a 5 because there was no risk. For him. You can’t push him out of the pot with your A Q. I would like to see tables with max and min buy in the same. Meaning a 100m buy in Room with blinds of 1m. You can’t sit with more or less.
2). I try to sit at table and there are no players. Meaning only empty rooms. I don’t want to start a table so I keep looking. No tables with players. So I go into recent players I have played with and I see players playing in the tables I’m looking for. I join and there are two seats available. Why didn’t they show when I was searching. With two seats. It should have shown. It’s like ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem wants me to start a table and doesn’t want me sitting in a table with three players. On a 5 player table.

Other than these issues. I love the game. Hopefully developers look at this and take into consideration.

by Lovethephone

Game is fun to play but I was curious after all the reviews I read of it being rigged. I played almost 10,000 hands and I started to take pictures of all the flushes I saw because it seemed way more than normal. I mean where all five cards on the table are the same suit. Even in the tournaments I was hitting big hands like crazy. I know they do this to make the game more fun but it can also be frustrating to the people who lose. One tournament I won I had quads 3 times within 15 min. Now in real poker that is rare yet in zynga I hit it 3 times in the span of just one tournament?? You will see boats and straights like common hands there are so many, but the amount of flushes takes the cake. I take pictures of people going all in with 8-2 against A-K and they make a boat 882 on the flop. It’s a normal occurrence and a little silly if u ask me. I’ve studied professional poker statistics and zynga is nowhere near. Also the more chips you get , I promise you will lose it. I saw bad beats which seemed impossible unless the game is rigged. Like I say it is fun game but cheating definitely goes on and it’s rigged. I saw one guy hit 3 straights in a row. Your gonna tell me that is just luck?

by TorricoI

Do not put any real money on this game! Hey Zynga I see you suspended my account???? Hmm you don’t want people knowing what a scam your running? This game is full of bots and unrealistic bad beats over and over! Read the reviews, you will have the nuts and then the bots will continually hit runner runner and take all your chips! 100% a scam! I say again SCAM! Let me say this they not only will they hit runner runner, they will continually hit 4 cards in a row! Call with nothing and magically hit the 3 outer! I wish I tunes would shut scams like this down but unfortunately Zynga is a huge I tunes developer and will continue to get away with stealing!
SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM!
I have compiled a year history of the UNREALISTIC BAD BEATS THAT IS ALMOST MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE! I have had Aces and Kings cracked 7 out of ten time over the past year with insignificant hands like 9/10! SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM!

I’m waiting on a responses form the corporate losers at Zynga! You will have 20 billion in chips and flop a set and some random ZYNGA bot will push all in and you could have top set and they will hit runner runner to get some 10 high straight! It’s a SCAM!

by Kimbo1964

Absolutely horrible! Have been playing for over ten years and recently they have started over or double billing me. I mean hundreds in days, and I do not buy that many chips! I got an Apple Card so I could keep track, but they stopped sending transaction alerts and in TWO days, the $1500 card had been maxed out!
I am going back and forth with iTunes and Zynga, each saying it’s not their fault. I’ll buy a package one day and another a next, and in a week I’ll get a receipt with several charges on it. They do that so that you can’t dispute it because it’s possible to have made the purchases for some. I’ve had to get my money back twice, now they’ve stopped. Since then I started taking screenshots of each purchase along with the date, even with that neither will refund my money.
I’m disabled and this is what I do to make the day go by, plus my friends are all on Zynga poker otherwise I’d play another. Sad thing is I know and can prove they’re double-billing me but they won’t return the hundreds that they’ve taken.
If you buy chips beware, make sure you notate the date and time and take a screenshot if you can, but even doing that can’t assure that you’ll be compensated for the overcharge. It’s sad, you spend a lot of real money on fake chips and they still try and get more from you. Take my advice and don’t buy chips...

by Marshanna

What the heck is going on ? Is yalls dealer on wacky weed or what ? I just stood at a table after losing connection from some odd reason . So when my connection came back I automatically was standing and I Chit you not I watched for 30 minutes the same cards and get this there was only 3 cards on table . The same cards over and over . It was like no cards being dealt . Just the same 3 on table . And I even said to the players that the game was hacked , now if I didn’t have connection I wouldn’t of been able to say that in chat and it not show up . Listen up now , what is going on ? Really ? For weeks now I have been lagging really bad . Lost some really good hands . Y’all had a update , but it’s the same thing over again . But this stuff with the 3 cards only and the same ones now that there is something to really wonder about . I’ve never seen that . Lol . Looks like I will be making a call to my manager. Cause there is really something going on . To much lagging , to much getting kick off the tables , to much connection just up and stop . When you look over and see that your connection is strong . And when you do get to play a hand or two the dang people act like the end of the world is coming . This is some crazy stuff . Zynga gets yalls crap together!

by Effinseriously

I hereby do decree that from this day forth Zynga poker shall be renamed “all in all the time with a 7-2 poker”. This game used to be fun years ago but it has gone downhill along with the number of people playing. Now with Jump poker being gone I can’t even stand to play anymore. Everyone just goes ALL IN ALL THE TIME! It’s impossible to play a normal game of poker. No matter how small the table stakes you go to they ALWAYS raise the blind. Shootouts take FOREVER now because it’s a slow timer and there’s multiple people who join and don’t play. You have to wait for the timer and it makes for a LONG game. They say their rated by a third party “fair dealing” but it’s bs, those people who go in on the 7-2 win about 90% of the time. You don’t get to see everyone’s hand at the end of a game and that’s bs too. You should be able to see EVERYONE who’s still in hands at the end. How else can you form a strategy? Tipping the fake dealer? What’s that about? You’re just throwing your chips away cuz your superstitious lol. It’s ridiculous. Do not play this game thinking it’s going to be like normal Texas Hold ‘Em game, it’s a joke.

by Seank205

Zynga suspended my account but then let me back in, after they raked my entire chip wallet.. This is after spending hundreds of dollars in their own store within ZyngaPokerTexasHoldem to purchase chips.. I have spent over $300 just in the last two weeks on three $99 chip packages, they are providing no explanation, I have reached out to them three times on support email, and they keep sending back generic responses with their terms of service link, with no explanation as to what they claim I violated or why they have taken my chips.. I have asked them point-blank if they did this to attempt to encourage me to purchase even more chips, again they were completely nonresponsive.. I have played this game for a long time, I have never had this happen before, not sure if this is a new tactic from them or what is going on, for now I would strongly encourage everyone to avoid, especially if you’re paying for any chips.. Today I have sent in a complaint regarding this to Apple since this purchase was made to an iOS app to see if they can be of any assistance and getting to the bottom of this, since again Zynga has refused to give a direct answer

by Nursefocker

Where to start, first off the game is always trying to reconnect itself and dropping your hand. I’ve even stood 5ft from my router and still the same thing. Second, it is not random, I was dealt the same hand four straight times and at one point matched every bet and lost 57 straight hands while the person with the biggest pot kept winning???? Zynga can program their algorithm to be random with exceptions and let us non-payers lose our pot to entice us to buy more chips. They claim it’s verified by third party but no computer algorithm is ever random just ask MIT:

“You can program a machine to generate what can be called “random” numbers, but the machine is always at the mercy of its programming. “On a completely deterministic machine you can’t generate anything you could really call a random sequence of numbers,” says Ward, “because the machine is following the same algorithm to generate them. Typically, that means it starts with a common ‘seed’ number and then follows a pattern.” The results may be sufficiently complex to make the pattern difficult to identify, but because it is ruled by a carefully defined and consistently repeated algorithm, the numbers it produces are not truly random. “They are what we call ‘pseudo-random’ numbers,” Ward says.”

by Pocketvideographer

I’ve played all three major poker apps, W**P, P***r S***s, and Zynga. On all three apps, I’ve never purchased chips, and I have a high bank in chips built up over thousands of hands of play, so what I say next is not spoken from the bitterness of having lost my play money. My experience on W**P is mostly unpleasant, with its unrealistic dealing of an excess of paired boards and runner-runner suits on the turn and the river. And while tournament play on P***r S***s is better with slower rising blinds, I wouldn’t recommend playing the so-called cash format there. Thus far, Zynga has been the most fun, mostly because it has the most familiar card dealing experience in comparison with a live deck. One criticism I would lay here is that if you try to collect the free chips and spins by watching videos, beware that sometimes there’s no way to close out the video ad to get back into the poker app without being pushed into the download screen for the advertised app. A new criticism is that after finshing play with Sit and Gos, Zynga has started showing me ads before I return to the “lobby”; this is a very disappointing development.

by Yahoooooo User

It’s a great app if they could control the players that come into steal your money by going all in when you’re at a table just to play. I would’ve given it a 5 star rating if it weren’t for this problem. But, it can be very frustrating with the players who try to manipulate the game. When I first started playing, you could play with people from all over the world, and have a relaxing evening of playing poker. But, now when a new player sits down at your table, you have to be alert for clues that they intend to steal the blinds or as much of your chip stack as possible. They go All In, and if you don’t have a strong hand you have to fold to them and they keep doing it every hand, over and over. I hope this doesn’t sound completely negative. It is a great app! They created, in my opinion one of the best poker sites out there and I think I’ve tried them all. Don’t let a few bad seeds ruin it for you because every once in a while, you can sit down with other players that just want to play, have a fun game night and make new friends from all over the world.

by Jimmy Zjon

Great online poker site often with many seriously unexpected but interesting outcomes. My only real complaint is that in one on one showdowns the lower starting hand wins far more than in terrestrial poker outcomes which is very unrealistic. The algorithm also gives bad cards to a player that has won first place frequently in order to create a semblance of an even playing field. Again an unrealistic outcome that is created by the algorithm.
I do compliment the overall experience as it’s fun and competitive. While not a great training ground for developing all around poker skills given the algorithm it’s fun overall. If the outcomes were slightly more realistic I’d give the site an A plus. As it currently is configured my grade is a B. The algorithm definitely penalizes players that are overly aggressive or who’ve won frequently. Tells me this site is definitely non random but carefully contrived.

by Hot 45 Bullet

If you like being cheated. This is the game to play. Don’t spend any money because they are just gonna steal it from you so you have to buy more. Zynga should be fined for stealing from people. With out the mega game going the table are all full of hackers. On three tables that were full and not one real person there on any of them. So either it is zynga stealing or the game has been taken over by a hackers. Reporting them does nothing cheating but they leave them right at the table to steal all your chips with either the full house cheat that is out of control. Very addicting game but the cheats are out of control and zynga just lets it happen so I would advise to take a break from this game for a while until zynga figures out how to control the cheating that is happening.



Thanks for no support

by Steveo926

The is very good and excellent in its development. The one problem is again at times I can’t get on a table. Which is insane since the seats are never fully full. Explain that one. Overall the game is excellent. A very good game"a very good game again I am trying to play the game and I can’t get on a table what is this. Again I am trying to play and I can’t get on a table. Good game and the people playing is very good at times. The only problem is getting to play. To many time I have been told there is no seats empty whereas there are seats open, that’s why I stop playing for awhile because it is frustrating and untrue. Thank you for your time and hopefully you will rectify the situation. Good game. A very good game. Well good game played and realisticd very good one of the bests. Excellent game very realistic and fun to play