Zynga Poker ™ - Texas Hold'em 17+

10 year player

First off I enjoy the app quite a bit. And these are the small issues I have with the app. 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 the app 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.

Overwhelming amount of ads

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 the app 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 the app 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 the app 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.

Developer Response ,

Hi. Thank you for your comments and we're extremely sorry to hear about your experience. We are improving our product day by day to make it more enjoyable. For game concerns, please contact our Player Support team: http://zynga.my/HowtoContactZPSupport for immediate assistance and make sure to provide your Player ID: http://zynga.my/PokerGameID
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Mr Bill

The biggest issue I have is that it rewards the aggression of a player and most often give them he win to a player who would never win in real life. Example a player going all in with 3-9 against a player with A-A. After the flop and the 3-9 gets two pairs. It happens far more often then it would in real life. I lost a hand full house Aces over Jacks to two pair why and for over 3 million and it’s not the first time. When ever several players go all in after the flop . The win most always goes to the player with the highest chip count at the table. Today I had the winning hand but the chips were giving to someone else. Plus one time it dropped me when I had a full house and on the river it dropped me. Message saying lost connection. Also it puts me in 50 million tournaments with out my selecting it. And take 50 million chips with out my playing a single hand and leaving the table. It just happened yesterday. It put me at a table and when I tried to leave. It messaged it would take all my chips. So I placed a few hands and doubled my chips. But each time I tried to leave the table. It massaged it would take all my chip.. I continued to play. Trying to leave the table several more times. Finally it took all my chip. Not happy with it at all. Over 6 billion chips lost because it wouldn’t allow me to leave the table. Without it taking my chips.