In a move sure to be popular with the world’s Macintosh platform users, popular online poker site PacificPoker has opened a new poker room online. The new room is specifically for Mac players, who have often lamented the fact that most Internet sites cater only to Windows based players.

If a Mac user who was also a poker enthusiast wished to participate in one of hundreds of online play or real money poker rooms, he would have had to either bite the bullet and purchase a PC, or expensive PC simulating software, like the infamous Virtual PC. With a program like Virtual PC running, a pseudo Windows environment is created on screen, within which PC programs could run. But it is a costly and glitchy solution.

Now that Mac users can go to www.pacificpoker-mac.com and play the downloadable or no-download versions of the game, Pacific Poker may discover why Mac users are known the world over as a loyal bunch.

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