3 launches multiplayer version of World Poker Tour 2
But what about the other operators?
Hands-On Mobile's new World Poker Tour: Texas Hold'Em 2 is out this month across all the UK operators, but 3 has become the first one to shout about launching the full multiplayer version.
Hands-On says it's the first play-for-fun multiplayer poker game that has been available for phones in Europe, enabling six-player tables over the network.
Us Europeans are actually quite late to the multiplayer poker party, mind. In the US, Hands-On's original World Poker Tour: Texas Hold'Em game was a roaring success, attracting 10,000 unique players a day, and 200,000 multiplayer hands every week. Over 3.6 million people have downloaded the game.
However, here in the UK, 3 is initially the only operator to launch the multiplayer version of the new game, which will cost £1.99 a month to play. Other operators – T-Mobile for instance – have only launched the single-player version so far.
The more operators who launch the multiplayer version, the more Brits there'll be to play against, so fingers crossed Hands-On strikes new deals for it soon. In the meantime, 3's version will let you play against all those Americans and other gamers around the world.
In the meantime, click 'Track It!' for alerts on our imminent reviews of both the single-player and multiplayer versions.
