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Zynga shares more of its troubles with its flagship poker game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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In early September, Zynga launched the new Zynga Poker, a new mobile version of the flagship game that has generated more than 100 billion hands of poker since 2007. The publisher has had more than 350 million players over this title’s history.

Zynga Poker Classic
Zynga Poker Classic

But the launch was admittedly a tough one, said chief executive Don Mattrick in a conference call with analysts about Zynga’s third fiscal quarter earnings. As previously reported, so many players complained that it agreed to bring back the old version, dubbed Zynga Poker Classic, as another option.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.