This poker article is a review of free poker games downloads for pc and Macs and is specifically looking at the quality of the games in terms of their usefulness as training aids for poker players wanting to play against real people for money online.

To clarify, what we are looking at are download poker games you play by yourself against the computer as opposed to the sort of free online poker download games you have at NoPay. 

This review looks at the best selling Governor of poker games series and the links are to parts 1 and 2, suitable for both Mac and PC downloads.

Free download games poker?

Not truly. We’ve looked and can’t find any “computer game” that is truly free apart from some very old and rubbish scripts (feel free to let us know if you know of some though) Each game is $6.99 but you can try free before you decide as they offer a 1 hour free download of the full editions so there is nothing to lose.

Now on to the details, what are these games like? This is my summary, this is the publisher description which is the marketing pitch.

Governor of Poker One – Download
Governor of Poker, is a poker game unlike anything you’re ever seen. Discover if you’ve got what it takes to go up against the Pro players of the old west? Do you dare join a cash game or tournament, dare you move ‘all in’. Does it satisfy you to totally clean the table of players and win all their cash and even their property. Can you rise to the challenge and become the Governor of Poker and lord it over all Texas?

We bet after playing Governor of Poker you haven’t had enough! Lucky for you there is Governor of Poker 2 Premium with lots and lots of extra’s!

Governor of Poker Two – Download
In this fully packed sequel lots of things have changed. Towns and become cities and many new people have arrived. It’s all good, but some things cannot be accepted just like that! Lots more cities to conquer and tournaments to play, interactive wallpaper, downloadable theme music, an extra ‘Pro’ difficulty mode and more.

And the biggest challenge of all awaits. In a parallel to the real world USA online poker money play situation, poker has been banned and you must fight the ban underground.

In Governor of Poker 2 you will also find a poker training tutorial feature. Play all new tournaments up to 120 opponents in 19 cities and 27 poker locations. Also very popular is the bounty hunter game, where you win money prizes when you knock out marked opponents!

Organize your own tournaments, get loans at the bank. You can choose to get to your next games by train, river casino boat or stage coach, naturally you can play poker while travelling.

Get yourself customized hats for style and also to unlock new game locations. Judge your opponents based on new emotions, including nervous, on fire, steamy and tilt. And to regain your Governor status beat the 9 most notorious poker players in the west!

Player feedback – Are the Governor of poker games any good?
The reviews we have found for Governor of poker 1 and 2 have been mixed. It is a case of love it or hate it so we advise that you get the free poker games download trial, try it out and decide for yourself.

A common theme is that it is more of a poker fun game as opposed to a real life poker training simulator. If you want real poker against people simulation and training then this is not quite there. For real life practice you still need the sort of free online poker practice games that you can find at NoPayPOKER.com where the play and attitudes are all very real!

However where the governor of poker games can really be of value is help you is to get to grips with the mechanics of the game and so save some blushes when you go up against real players for the first time. So you’ll be fully familiar with position, the blinds, betting, raising, folding and so on and hopefully an idea on what hands to play and NOT to play.

If all you want is a poker game for fun then Governor of poker is good and will keep to tearing your hair out for some time. Go get the Governor poker games free download for pc or Mac today.