Apps for those who fancy a bit of a gamble
RUMOUR has it that some City types like to gamble, so they’re probably the ideal target market for the first real-money poker app for the iPhone. Launched by online betting company Bwin, the app’s clever design creates a pocket-sized poker table that displays your hand automatically, offers you hand histories and can also help you calculate your winning odds. It works simply by keying you into Bwin’s online poker platform, meaning you’re not simply playing against other users of the app but the thousands of online players out there. You can also play for free for fake money if you need to brush up on your skills and learn those odds.
If you want games that will exercise your fiendish cunning, razor sharp intellect and number crunching skills, there’s more in the app world than Angry Birds.
Crunch for iPhone is a bit like Tetris, only you use mental arithmetic to clear the blocks from the screen. At the moment it’s pretty tame, but a more hardcore tournament version, where you play for money, is in the offing.
If you really want to impress people with your brainpower, the new quiz game Quizaniac should offer you the perfect platform. It currently involves quizzes played on Facebook, but the future is in mobile, and the real money is in gambling. So the next big launch will be a series of specialist online quizzes, played on your phone, where you can win serious money. Look out for the City Quiz, which will test your knowledge of money and the markets.
Booth edits www.mobbed-online.com. Follow him on Twitter: @OhThisBloodyPC