Poker Season 9 11/20

Poker Season 9 is on so be ready for the next flood of Poker Cards!

I am already seeing complaints about the odds of winning hands (as usual).

Mafia Poker Aces Low

Mafia Poker Season 8

It will take a lot of these to win the top rewards in this, and with so many events going on at once, I'm not sure if this is going to be one of my favorites to do this time.

The rules of the game appear to be the same.

The hand rankings appear to be the same.

The Reward: A Janitor, henchmen [varies]

As you may or may not know you can collect up to 250 cards a day or gifting cycle.  The amount of cards needed to progress through this may not be worth the effort for the loots item. Collectors, of course will want to watch the amount of cards they take in so that you do not miss out on the daily points and boosts from the mystery bags. Even one stat point is better than 1 loot item.

Mafia Poker Season 8 has begun 8/7

Send as many poker cards out to your mafia as you can today

So you can get enough winning hands to get the Punked Canon, weapon, [stats vary]

Earlier Posts on Mafia Poker

Mafia Poker Season 7 is here

More on Mafia Poker

Mafia Poker: Aces Low

UPDATED Gifting Insanity

****UPDATE: Zynga took action, probably too much action, and made many items back to being ungiftable.  Gold Treasure Chest keys being among them, and of course the items needed for the limited time events such as mafia poker.  Some of those are good to not be giftable. UNFORTUNATELY, Special Parts and Exotic Animal Feed are also among the items that are no longer giftable.  Zynga can't get it right to save their lives.  Morons. I RECOMMEND EVERYONE CONTACT CS AND DEMAND SPECIAL PARTS AND EXOTIC FEED BE MADE GIFTABLE AGAIN!****

Well, I am stunned by this recent gifting expansion by Zynga.  It is LONG overdue.  And it's also fraught with error.  Either by oversight or apathy, Zynga has created an unfair advantage for certain players.  Gold treasure Chest Keys are giftable.  The items needed for ALL 3 current limited time events are giftable....which really leaves me scratching my head.  The knob wrenches, the parts for Ripped Rims, AND Poker Cards are giftable....this is obviously a great thing for players with multiple accounts, and an even greater thing for people who have multiple accounts that actually get played often.

I am no judge of people with minis. I have several.  I think minis are one of a few reasons the game survives - they drive the DAU number up considerably.  I'd say AT LEAST half the DAU are mini accounts, if not more than half.  My judgement, as always, is reserved for the idiots at Zynga.

I am, however, excited about the new life this has breathed into the trading community, which was all but dead.  The trading community was a special part of Mafia Wars. Maybe some people who quit playing when trading died out will come back.  I know I will be compelled to do some trading to get my hands on some of these damned treasure chest keys.  I am also pumped that special parts and exotic animal feed are now giftable.

So my final thoughts are: I am saying "Way to go, Zynga" in two very different ways at the same time. One is very sincere, one is very sarcastic.

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Mafia Poker Season 7 is here! 7/16

Poker Season 7 has arrived!

Another flood of Poker Cards sent and received these next 9 days

After winning the correct number of hands you will be rewarded with a  Pronged Lizard

(animal, various attack/defense)

So here we go again, let's get to sending those poker cards! Good luck!

Mafia Poker Season 6 and earlier poker post links

Mafia Poker Season 6 is here 6/24

Prepare for a flood of inbox gifts and send them out as fast as you can!

The prize this time is a Bohemian, Henchmen (various ATT/DEF)

Earlier Blog Posts about Mafia Poker (and issues we've all had)

Poker Season 5

More on Mafia Poker

Poker Aces Low (when a winning hand loses)

Because this is really annoying me now, the third family property is *still* not open.

How long until "soon" happens?

MAFIA WARS more on Mafia Poker, poker card collection, and limits

I didn't get a chance to play with the new Mafia Poker season in Mafia Wars last night due to the late hour when it arrived in our game. Now that I'm looking at it and reading about it more, I can't say I'm overly impressed. We'll have about 9 more days to try and complete this, but unfortunately right now the only way to get cards is to publish a post to your Facebook news feed asking for them.

I got 14 cards when I made a news feed post; according to customer support, we should be able to get up to 20 cards from our posts. It looks like we'll be able to create that news feed post asking for cards every four hours. I know many of us got ticked off over the flood of poker cards in our ZMC during the first Mafia Poker season, but I have to say it kind of sucks that the Poker Card is not on the Free Gift page.

On the bright side,you can collect more Poker Cards by clicking on the news feed posts of your friends. I collected over 70 (73, to be exact) before I finally got bored of the clicking. This is good for those of us with a large and active mafia, as we can readily find posts to click to gain Poker Cards so that we can keep playing; but it's not so good for players with smaller mafias.

If the number of cards shown in your Mafia Poker game doesn't match up with the number of cards you think you should have, you can check your Inventory for Poker Cards to see the exact amount that you have.

Unfortunately for some players, when they generate a post to their Facebook news feed asking for Poker Cards, those of us clicking on their post get the message that the feed has expired.

This happened to me this afternoon, and I wasted over an hour with customer support trying to get the situation resolved. Since this is a timed event, I felt that they should credit me the 20 cards they told me each post can collect. The customer support agent only offered me 10 reward points, which would only buy me 10 Poker Cards!! I argued with him and finally got ticked enough to ask for a supervisor. The supervisor at first told me the same thing, but after I pointed out that I don't harass customer support and milk them for reward points like many players BRAG about doing, he finally capitulated.

Not surprisingly, I'm not certain of the information that the customer support agent and supervisor gave me. The agent told me we could collect 120 cards per day from feeds. The supervisor told me it was 140--120 from our own feeds, and 20 from other players' posts. Well, I already know that part is incorrect, because I collected 73 by clicking posts earlier today. Given all these issues with expired feeds, I wonder if it's not the other way around.

I suspect there's a hard limit of either 120 or 140 per day. Which stinks. You better have at least a 50/50 win ratio to master this event, if what they told me is correct.

We should be able to get these as gifts.

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Mafia Poker

Ah, so that's what the Poker Card is for. A mini poker game in Mafia Wars called Mafia Poker. The Playing Cards turned up in my game earlier tonight, and now Mafia Poker has made its appearance. The Fortune Teller is the prize; win 10 hands for the bronze mastery of the Fortune Teller, up to 150 hands to get the top mastery level for the Fortune Teller. I'm betting the house odds aren't so great, but good luck! I'll check it out more tomorrow.

CLICK HERE TO SEND PLAYING CARDS

Playing Cards?

 I was surprised when a Poker Card turned up in my ZMC as a free gift.

The item was added earlier today, but there's been nothing new on my Mafia Wars home page. I did a little snooping and found this in the Marketplace, under the heading of "Playing Cards".

Although it might be that bad if they're giftable....except when I clicked on it to accept the gift, I got a message saying the 'event' was over and it turned into a Blue Mystery Bag.

I have no idea how this is going to work, but I guess we shall find out soon.

Fortune Teller added to inventory

A couple of items have been added to the Mafia Wars inventory since yesterday. This Fortune Teller item is listed as a Special Event item and has 5 levels of mastery. And she really looks a lot like me in the face! Like, a lot. EDIT-Except I don't have man hands--gee thanks, Trainspotter! :D

An item called a Poker Card was also added...it's listed as a Marketplace item.

Poker Card from Marketplace
Fortune Teller (A:85 D:120) from Special Event
Fortune Teller (A:90 D:130) from Special Event
Fortune Teller (A:95 D:140) from Special Event
Fortune Teller (A:100 D:150) from Special Event
Fortune Teller (A:105 D:160) from Special Event