Mac Poker

About RedKings Poker

Live like a king! The Ongame Network site RedKings boasts an Instant Play option that is perfect for Mac poker players. In Safari or Firefox, the RedKings Instant Play option uses Java to stream online poker right onto your computer. Players can open four tournament or cash games tables at a time, all that’s required is the latest version of Java and a high-speed internet connection. The Ongame Network is the fifth largest worldwide and does not accept players from the United States.

Tournaments

The Ongame Network boasts some of the Net’s richest tournaments. In fact, fortunes are made on the massive family of sites every single day. The Grand is a two-day tournament, a unique proposition in an online poker site: the tournament runs over the course of a weekend, with Day 1A occurring on Friday, Day 1B occurring on Saturday, and the survivors reconvening for Day 2 on Sunday. It’s a high-stakes $1,000 buy-in battle that takes place on the last weekend of every month and is just like playing in a live tournament.

The Big Deal is a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool tournament that serves as the Ongame Network’s weekly major. Each player is awarded a starting chip stack of 2,500 and blinds go up every 20 minutes. A six-figure guaranteed prize pool tournament that you can play from the comfort of your Apple computer: that truly is a Big Deal. Country-specific tournaments run on RedKings, including the Aussie Daily, a $54 and $108 buy-in affair geared towards RedKings players Down Under. There are also Canadian and European Daily tournaments.

Cash Games

You’ll find the majority of the action on RedKings at the low- and mid-stakes games. However, the site’s 3D poker look will make playing Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, or Five Card Draw a pleasure. Serious multi-tablers beware: You can open just four tables using Instant Play. If you’re planning to grind more, you will have to download the full version of RedKings using a program like Boot Camp or Parallels that enable you to run programs in a Windows environment.

Traffic

It’s not uncommon to see between 3,000 and 6,000 real money ring game players battling it out on the massive Ongame Network, which also includes sites such as Betsafe, bwin, Eurobet, Hollywood Poker, PokerLoco, and Stryyke. It’s one of the world’s five largest online poker networks, which will enable you to find high-stakes and low-stakes games around the clock. RedKings’ traffic is at its greatest during the primetime hours in Europe and if you have any setbacks, RedKings offers Live Support online, via phone at +1-647-724-0264, or through e-mail.

Promotions

Pocket Kings Bad Beat Bonus
Playing on its name, the site offers a $50 red pocket Kings bad beat bonus, billed as “one bad beat you’re going to want to get.” If your red pocket Kings (the King of Diamonds and the King of Hearts) lose at showdown in a Texas Hold’em cash game, you’ll see your bank account grow by $50. The promotion varies slightly, but at the time of writing also includes a $10 bonus just for getting dealt pocket Kings at a real money Hold’em ring game table. In both cases, players must contact RedKings’ support to claim their prize.

Live Poker Events

The Ongame Network sends its players to major live tournaments around the world. Win your way into high-stakes contests like the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the Swedish Championship, the Helsinki Midnight Sun tournament, and the Asian Poker Tour’s Macau stop. Visit the RedKings tournament lobby through Instant Play to see what brick-and-mortar tournaments are on the horizon. Satellite options start as low as a couple of dollars, so no matter what your bankroll is, you’re sure to find a route that suits your fancy and budget.

Overall

RedKings is a high-traffic site with an Instant Play version for Mac poker enthusiasts. The only drawback is that multi-tabling is limited to four tables, but give it a shot today!