Mac and Linux online poker

Macintosh (Mac) and Linux community used to form a very small part of the poker industry hence very few rooms offered Mac and Linux support. As the community grows more and more poker rooms are developing Mac and Linux compatible software’s. Here I will discuss a few poker rooms that support Linux and Mac and what other utilities you need to install on your computer for them to work properly.

Here are some rooms which offer both Mac and Linux support.

1) Full Tilt Poker
2) Party Poker
3) Pacific Poker

Except for Full Tilt Poker all other rooms offer no download version of their software.

In case you didn't know, full tilt poker is the only room that provides a dedicated Mac client or software. The software is specially developed for Mac and you don’t need to install any tools like PC emulator for it to work. Just download and play.

Let’s discuss how to play poker using a no download version. Your browser should have Java1.1 or Java Virtual Machine (JVM) installed. If you don’t have it installed you can get the latest version of JVM here. Mac users can download Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ 2.2.5) from apple here.

Mac users can either follow the above step or download Safari which is nothing but a web browser from Apple with built in Java support. No need of downloading and installing MRJ 2.2.5 on this browser.

Ok, so this works fine where no download is required. But what about those poker rooms that doesn’t offer a download version like PokerStars or UltimateBet. For that you need to download and install Virtual PC, an emulator program to create windows compatibility. Get the latest version of Virtual PC here. Remember none of the rooms listed below require an emulator program.

Now that you have learned the basics of playing online poker for Mac, I welcome you to investigate a more in-depth Mac poker guide. This poker site has been working for several years on compiling detailed data regarding poker Mac. They feature updated Mac poker news, reviews of each room, and poker bonuses as part of their regular content.