Whilst Apple Mac's are awesome, the one bad thing about them is that until recently you have not been able to play online poker on them. That is until resourceful online poker rooms realised they were losing out on a potentially profitable chunk of business.

So voila along comes the non download or instant poker (as some online poker sites call it), not only does this software allow you to play poker instantly on your pc - maybe at work (god forbid!) or at an internet cafe - but more importantly for you the Apple Mac user you can play poker now using your Apple Mac.

Non download poker does not usually come with all the bells and whistles that download poker comes with and often has a limited number of games available - usually Texas Holdem but you can use the same account and you will more often than not be playing against players using the download version of the software.

Anyway, without further ado - here is a list of online poker rooms that enable Apple Mac users to play online poker. We will continue to add to the list as sites develop non download versions of their software for Apple Mac.

Backed by the financial clout of the Ladbrokes Group, Ladbrokes Poker is Europe's busiest poker room, and sits on the Microgaming Network.

Ladbrokes Poker gives you superb cash game action with high stakes tables ($25/$50 and $50/$100), superb tournament games with extreme stack, rebuys etc and satellite events to the vast majority of on and offline global poker events. Microgaming software ensures safe and secure online multiplayer poker.

They offer a great $500 sign up bonus and also daily freerolls for new players.

Game Choice -

Texas Hold'Em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven Card Stud and Five Card Stud are all available with a range of pot limit, no limit and tournament play games.
One thing we really like about Ladbrokes Poker is that they offer a Private table feature, enabling you, with a group of friends to have your own poker games - you can even of course run your own tournaments with maybe a group of work colleagues - this is something that is missing from a lot of other poker rooms and poker networks.

Whilst it may be on the Microgaming network - you do only play against Ladbrokes players within a closed loop (much like William Hill Poker on the Cryptologic network)

Software look and feel:

The Ladbrokes Poker software is slick and runs extremely well - with no issues that we have found - even with the 3D poker room. Player experience is very good with the navigation within the lobby and onto tables extremely intuitive and without hassle.

The software download is relatively small as well so does not take a huge amount of time once you have decided to play with them.

Full Tilt Poker is one of the largest poker rooms in the world and accepts US Poker players. It is often seen as one of the more serious poker rooms as well - and by serious I mean home to the big Pro's and in some ways this is true with Team Full Tilt full of some of the biggest names in professional poker, however it is also a good place for a poker player who has already learned the ropes and is ready to start testing their mettle against the big boys. Full Tilt Poker is the home to FTOPS, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, an extremely popular annual event. The FTOPS is hosted by Team Full Tilt Members and millions of dollars are guaranteed in the prize pools. You can also qualify for major offline poker events, such as the World Series of Poker, the WPT (World Poker Tour) and the EPT (European Poker Tour).

Full Tilt Poker supports the following languages:

Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish
Gameplay:

Game Choice -

As you would expect Full Tilt Poker offers the standard games plus a few more: Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud Hi, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo, Razz, H.O.R.S.E., H.O.S.E. (Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo) and H.A. (Hold'em and Omaha Hi)

Stakes -

Massive cash game traffic at all levels and stakes from low to high make Full Tilt an attractive ring game site.

Software look and feel:

The lobby and the choices for tables - cash, tournament etc are very easy to use and laid out in a nice manner.

You either love or hate the actual table software from Full Tilt Poker your position on the table is denoted by a 'cartoony type character' - they can be changed to reflect your emotions at any given time but thats what you have.

Pokerroom.com is the world's leading non-download poker site which is awesome news for Mac users!!!! It has excellent software with very slick 3D graphics and good playability.

Pokerroom is huge and has tons of traffic moving through the site at all times (upto 2,800 ring game players at peak times) and because of its size there is a lot of soft competition.

In addition to massive amounts of ring game traffic they also have a lot of tournament traffic, with numbers up towards 6,000 at peak times, they also have an excellent community built With their 'POKAH' forum.

They generally focus on table sizes of 5-6 players rather than the usual 10 players per table.
Gameplay:

Gameplay is great at Pokerroom, game choices are clearly marked (with hand stats and history easily viewed) and the stakes range up from $.25/$.50 up to $500/$100 (in Omaha and 7 Card Stud). You can play multi-handed tables, private tables, and head to head.

Awesome selection of poker games. Aside from Holdem (Limit, Pot-Limit and No-limit) you'll find Omaha (Hi & Hi-Lo) and 7 Card Stud (Hi & Hi-Lo). Omaha is also available as Fixed-Limit, Pot-Limit and No-Limit.

Considerable marketing has brought a lot of soft competition to the tables. They do of course tend to stay on the lower stake tables, rather than becoming fish on the higher stakes tables - but if you are a good player then the higher stakes tables are where you will find some stiff competition!

Software look and feel:

The software is pretty unique looking with 3D images and some fairly cool characters and very easy to use features and functions.

All the information you could want is at your fingertips from hand or table stats and percentages; and all the fun features are built in like chat and note taking.

They are also fairly unique in offering the facility to vote against other players who take too long to play, thus getting them kicked out of the game. The java non-download version allows Mac, Linux and those who are unable to download offers a similar level of features.