Take a Break, play some poker at PokerStars from your Linux desktop

Or, should I say, where you can use your favorite OS Linux or Mac OS without having to run a vmware installation of Windows.

Take a break from your heavy duties tonight. Sit back, brew yourself a fresh cup of coffee or tea, and join a multi table tournament, with awesome poker action, and now, from your Linux desktop. Yihaa!

You should be able to run PokerStars with a wine installation, ( version 0.9.36 ) under Fedora Core 6 without any problems. Just install the pokerstars.exe file issuing the command:

Download the PokerStars Poker Client from here:

$ wine PokerStarsInstall.exe

Follow the regular Windows like installation instructions, and you should be set.

To install wine on Fedora just run:
# yum install wine

Check under applications, and you will find a a PokerStars icon ( shortcut ) to start the PokerStars client.

PokerStars runs excellent on a Fedora 6 installation, so no more need for virtualization to make use of poker clients. So finally, the best of two worlds, Linux and Poker!, and Yes, well all need a nice break to play some adreanline poker after reading hundreds and thousands of man pages. NOHUP poker!

I will get back on how to install wine and other poker clients on a few different Linux distributions, but for now I will only cover Fedora.

One thing worth to mention. The bonus on PokerStars is in my meaning very easy to collect. Just a few hours of play usually.