Texas Hold’em On Your Smartphone

You can now play Texas Hold’em with Poker superstar, Phil Hellmuth on a Smartphone near you.

Concrete Software announced today the launch of Texas Hold’em with Phil Hellmuth for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones. Originally published on many major carriers by Oasys Mobile, Concrete Software brings this popular game to smartphones.

Texas Hold’em has been a poker phenomenon. It is played in homes and on TV around the world. Phil Hellmuth is known as one of the best poker players in the world, winning his first World Series of Poker title at age 24, the youngest person to ever accomplish such a feat. Phil now holds 11 World Series of Poker titles.

Texas Hold’em with Phil Hellmuth has already been a hit on such carriers as AT&T, Verizon, Alltel, Sprint, and T-Mobile. The new smartphone version will allow more of the carriers’ subscribers to play this best-selling game.

Check out Texas Hold’em on Concrete Software

Mobile Multiplayer Championship Poker

Real Dice, the developer of multiplayer games for next-generation mobile devices, today officially announced the launch of Multiplayer Championship Poker for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Featuring live multiplayer capability, ring games, “sit-n-go” tournaments and multi-table events every 15 minutes, Multiplayer Championship Poker gives mobile Apple users the ability to connect with thousands of players from around the world 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The game is now available in the iTunes store for download at a price of $9.99.

“The expansion of Multiplayer Championship Poker to the iTunes store now allows iPhone and iPod Touch customers to pull up a virtual chair and play Texas Hold’em with the 300,000 users who are already online on a variety of other devices,” said Russ McMahon, Director of Mobile Development at Real Dice. “We’ve developed the game so players from every supported system can play live games together no matter which handset they have. This means that you can log in with your iPhone while you’re sitting at the airport and play with your Blackberry-loving best friend or take on a complete stranger who’s logged in through Facebook on the web.”

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