Free until... – Sparkling Poker Review

Someone runs out of money. IAP is required to "re-buy" into a game/table, otherwise you are done playing. Not sure if it locks you out if the device you are using as a table (the iPad) or if it keeps track of your chips on your own device (iPhone/iPod), making any table unplayable unless you IAP. High hopes for this with family and friends, and I understand needing to generate revenue for developers, but I can't ask people I play with to spend real money just to keep playing. May as well pull out the real cards and chips if you just play for fun. I'd rather pay once for this type of digital poker system (say $10) on the iPad that holds all the chips, and then everyone connecting with their phones or iPods are given said chips from the table. Then they can be reused to play as much as you want. Again, I'll never get family or friends to spend even the $.99 for the starter pack chip set if it isn't reusable, thus making it a giant money sink simply to play using iOS devices. Edit: I was mistakenly using the "cash game". There is the tournament option that essentially makes it free to keep playing, and you can handle the money locally if you wanted. Great game!
Review by Crzychkn on Sparkling Poker.