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AI was better and more realistic before
Had this app when it originally came out and it was an excellent poker teacher. AI players bet and folded realistically and it taught me how to play in the real world profitably — with patience, position and timely aggression.
Now it’s been rewired in the reboot to be ridiculously unrealistic: huge overbets and reraises from AI opponents with terrible cards, and if you call them and are ahead preflop — say you have AJ and they have k7 — they will always get the cards they need on the turn or River to beat you. Like 95% of the time.
I played 150 games before I wrote this review to make sure I wasn’t just experiencing the downside of variance. In all those games I never amassed enough of a bank roll to go further than three buy ins at the Repongi level ($5K buy in), and I saw way too many heads up bad beats.
Sad to say what was once the best of the AI poker apps has now become the worst.Show lessDiscerning dad
Good game, but loses enjoyment with coding
Two major problems are: (1) persistently “rebalances the table” with no corresponding increase in original value of 1st, 2nd, 3rd place wins; (2) significant inconsistency in a multiple raise ‘traps’, based on the value of the online player ‘s hand (ie, game players repeatedly make baseless raises, until the online player is all-in, and then simply fold as if working as a team to beat the online player!
(Later) I’m going to replace this game with another! I know it sounds stupid, but every time I get down to 2-3 opponents, the game injects an artificially meaningless “Rebalancing the table” and I’m back to 8 opponents. I feel like throwing my phone and frequently just dump my chips and start over. This feature really ruins an otherwise great game!!Show lessjghorton
Why take it away?
Why was this game taken away? Best poker game ever. Now My stats are all goneXcentrik1980
Very good casual poker game
I like the play, both in the overhead view and the face to face view. However, 2 things stand out that I wish could be adjusted.
1. When you fold, you don’t get to see how the rest of the hand plays out. You fold and there are 4 other players, it jumps immediately to the lay down. In the case of everyone else folding, you don’t get to see how the bets transpire.
2. In the face to face, same issue as above. And when you stay in and go to the lay down, if it is more than two players at the end, it is hard to tell who played what because it doesn’t show them in relation to the other players.
Almost forgot... doesn’t sync between iPhone and iPad... which seems strange for an Apple app.Show lessPaterNovem
Good but easy
Overall a great free game, but later stages are pretty easy. If you have x20 bankroll then there should be nothing stopping you making limitless money. Surprisingly the quality of play doesn’t seem to improve as you move to more expensive tables (or am I just getting better...?)AstroGuardian
Drives me Crazy!!
Drives me Crazy!! I started against 8 other players; I beat them down to only 3 players left; I think great, I’ve got a chance to win against 3 players- then suddenly - out of nowhere - they bring (...DUMP....) another 5 NEW players to the table and I have to ‘start from scratch’ AGAIN ! - playing 8 players again like I’m back at the beginning! After all the effort to win down to the last 3 players. So annoying! So only 1 star. I wish they’d fix it then I would give them 5 stars because it’s very classy, great player animations, fast: and would be really enjoyable if only they wouldn’t ‘slap you back down’ just when you think you might beat the last 3 players and win! (Incidentally this is the first app review I have done). Please fix it if you can!Show lessinterstellar Wombat
Poor AI
Poor AI that bids too high to often; it’s like those players in real life who go all in without looking at their cards. The game is playable, but annoying. No point in playing strategically. I wanted to give it a two star rating, but bumped it up to three because of the videos of the characters your playing against, which gives it a funny feel. Not a bad game, but not good either. If this game had cost money I’d be demanding my money back, but as is it’s mediocre. I’ve played better, but also played worse.Show lessLeafs fan '81
Yes!
I used to looooove this app game. I’m not sure if I misunderstood by them saying ..we’re back”, that being the reason why I could not find this game for years and thinking I was a perfect idiot. Hey not that this disproves that but we can feel a little better now. Anywho, very thankful to the developers, the world in hardship as it is, and this game being one of, even if minuscule, life’s little-to-no-effort pleasures of owning an apple product. Gee I mean after my idk how many now products purchased from them, I hope I’ve earned it ;)Show lessjbl1975
Tilt!
I played and greatly enjoyed this game a decade ago and missed its presence from the App Store while it was gone. Sadly this new version “balances” the table by bringing in additional replacement players as you beat the others and they are eliminated. What kind of crap is that???? Much of poker is a battle of attrition - especially in this version where to place in the money you must finish in the top 3. My strategy has often been to let the more reckless players eliminate each other and conserve enough chips to finish. I’m greatly disappointed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Show lessUDMF's
Ok game but not a realistic simulation
The npcs are pretty decent as far betting tendencies and being consistent. It is the cards I have an issue with. If you play a light hand (with slight odds advantage) and it goes to a showdown, 7/10 the npc is going to beat your hand on one of the last 2 card draws. They will pull the one card that beats you. Tells me that there is an algorithm deciding of I will win or lose as opposed to programming aimed at randomizing the cards. That throws the odds off from a real card game and makes it just a video game. If you want simulation, play the WSOP app against real people.Show lessJJ Skywalker
