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No Fold 'em Hold 'em

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: October 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't horrible, but it certainly is in no way, shape or form a realistic poker simulation. If all you want to do is play a little online with your camera and talk trash and you don't really play poker for money, sure, have a blast. But for people who read poker books, play for money, and take the game seriously, this is, as one reviewer put it, arcade poker.

Overall, I think the developers need to take a serious look at what kind of poker game they are trying to make. It's fairly obvious that the developers made this with the "no fold em hold em" players in mind, as opposed to serious poker players. That's the main problem right there. The other is that they feel like the WSOP license and some big name pros will sell the game, not substance. Those are two deathblows. It's casual fun, but nothing that serious players will enjoy over the long haul. After spending more time with it, it just got more and more annoying as the game's numerous flaws became more and more glaring.

Once these poker games start taking advantage of the next-gen hardware and use multiple types of A.I. opponents, with adaptive A.I. that adjusts to your style of play, then we'll finally have a serious one player poker game. They also need to beef up the online portion with more options, like cash games. Hopefully, they'll also put in some real next-gen graphics, player models that actually resemble humans, and some better presentation. It would be nice to see WSOP games, and poker games in general, start to use some real production values, like EA Sports and 2KSports games. I think poker fans would rather have a killer poker app for $50 or $60 than this for $30.

Simply put..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: September 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Xbox Live Arcade has a poker game for 10 bucks.

That game alone outperforms this $40 waste of money.

This game is just embarrassing to play and watch. You have to be a major, major poker player just to sit through the tournaments. They go at an extremely slow pace.

The graphics and player models are just laughable, the worst on the 360 yet. The graphics are eyesores. And for player animations, just watch the two announcers on the screen before your first big tourny. Almost terrifying.

Do NOT get this. If you want a good Texas Hold 'Em experience, download the one off Xbox Marketplace.

An arcade game, not a poker game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was given this game as a gift. I play poker competitively as well as for fun and do use software to practice (such as DD Poker) but the person who gave it to me had no experience of poker and just thought this would be fun for me and my new 360.

Fair enough, I'll give it a go. I was a bit taken aback that the introduction was both simplistic and time-consuming, but I'll try anything once. I set up a career and entered a tournament. Sat out a couple of hands, blinds at 5/10, in the cutoff, player under the gun makes a raise. Person next to him also raises. Then the entire table calls. I'm baffled at this point (early raise means power, re-raise of a power hand means a monster, so everyone else should have folded, not called), but of course I've now been given great odds so I'll play whatever I have. I look down at AA. Nice. So I bet the pot to clear most people out. And everyone else instead follows me in... and of course my As get cracked.

I'm not sure who this game is aimed at. The betting makes no sense, the AI will play any two cards, the BB ALWAYS calls if no-one else does making it impossible to steal the blinds - in other words it's all hugely unrealistic and won't teach you anything about poker. I think that it is, as the title says, an arcade game for those who want to dabble and pretend that it's the real thing without wanting to take it so far as to understand poker strategy and tactics.

As a final aside, I was very disappointed in the graphics and sound - 360 is all about the visual and auditory experience, and this game takes no advantage of that.

Overall, avoid this game.

Poker is still fun - but the Presentation , etc. is poor

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Buying this game for a 360 is kinda like driving all the way to Las Vegas and finding out that pinball is the only game in town. It is disappointing - much like Halle Berry as Catwoman. We still like her, but the movie (presentation) was......well, you know. So, as much as I love to play poker, the Xbox 360 WSOP presentation on a very capable machine could have been much, much better.

If I hear that sneeze one more time!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was so looking foward to this Xbox360 version of the WSP, but I must say
I am disapointed, with the overall gameplay. The AI is a step up from the old xbox version but the game can be very tedious. Plus I have to play with the game background off due to the same old lame comments and background noises (sneeze ect)

fun, but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the game is fun and helps your game out a bit, but it is very repetitive... you can... no you will get sick of the catch phrases that the characters say... dont get me wrong though, you can always turn down the sound to the tv, turn on your stereo or head phones and it is just like your in the game...

Worst Poker game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was looking forward to play poker on 360. Everything everybody has mentioned above is true. Also the game is so slow. They "try" to make it realistic timing but that failed. There are times when i'm pressing bet, bet or fold, fold but my player whats to take 5 more seconds to think about it before acting on my command.

Horrible poker game.

Get some hands on poker

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for XBOX 360, the graphics are nice but the events too long to finish, the gameface option is not very good in the game.

I like playing this game but you will need a lot of patience to play it.

Overall i recommend this game for any newbies out there who want to learn Hold em poker.

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