Playing Mobile poker and mobile video poker might be envisaged by some players as taking your laptop and wireless connection with you in the car to the local coffee shop to play. And although this does make your favourite poker room mobile, it is really not what we mean when using this terminology.

Before the advent of being able to play casino games on your mobile telephone, the scenario we outlined above did apply. However now that Mobile Poker, Mobile Video Poker and other games are able to be played from your mobile telephone, it has taken the world of online casinos and poker rooms into a whole other dimension.

Poker players are now able to access the internet from their mobile phones, and casinos such as Casino Tropez, offer members the ability to download games to their mobiles. Not all casinos and poker rooms offer Mobile Poker and Mobile Video Poker yet. But the trend is on the rise, and mobile gaming is proving to be the next wave which will make online casino operators able to offer even more services to poker players.

Most Mobile Poker, Mobile Video Poker, and other gaming services require a data connection which is provided by the telecom provider for that country or region. Data layer technologies such as GSM Data, GPRS, I-Mode and UMTS are used to provide this. However there are some mobile casino games which are available via a SMS messaging interface, and this certainly takes mobile gaming a step further.