Customer Reviews

Chris Moneymaker's World Poker Championship

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I took advantage of the low price and bought this piece of garbage. I got taken big time. I am new to poker having watched Moneymaker on ESPN a couple of years ago. So, I am no expert. But, this game makes it ridiciously easy to win and all the players play basically the same way. If you are patient you are basically guaranteed of finishing in the money in every tournament and I am winning about 30% of the tournaments. This despite a lot of really bad beats.

The computer players inevitably give away when they get any kind of pair pre-flop by raising. Then as the hand moves on if they have a good hand they will slow play it trying to sucker you in to betting more. Additionally, they will try and bluff and have no brakes when doing so leading to a plethora of all ins where you take the computer players money without them having even a pair.
Finally, the graphics and presentation are quite ordinary and repetitive. You get to play in different casinos, but except for the opening shot outside the casino, none of them show you any differences inside to give the game some flavor. The computer opponents also have no personality. Since the AI is so bad at least they should provide us with fun interaction with the computer players, but it does not happen.

I suggest to all that they avoid this game. I can't give a reccomendation for any other poker games out there either. Does anyone know of any good ones?

took me about 30 minutes to realize the AI players never fold after a flop..... online play is horrible, expected dozens of people and games in progress... nope.. saw 2 others online. SAVE YOUR 20 BUCKS AND BUY SOMETHING ELSE.

I wish I could have given this game "minus" stars. I would have done it. I have played games before that, after I had played them a few times, I could beat them every time. I haven't figured out how to get into this game's good graces, because it seems when it wants me to win I win and when it doesn't, I don't. The cards, obviously, are not dealt at random. I lost count of how many times I have gotten the same pair of cards (like 5 of clubs and deuce of spades - I use this combination because that is the one that seems to turn up most often) on consecutive hands. I don't know how many times I have held a good hand - say queen high flush - and been beaten by a king high flush or other such nonsense. I'm not saying it can't happen in a real game, just not with the regularity it does in this game.

There are many other flaws mentioned by other reviewers that I have encountered at one time or another. When you put them all together, they make for a really sorry poker game.

I bought this game from an Office Depot and needless to say, they refused to give me a refund after opening the package. I wasted $20 on this crap and please don't do the same. The game is so slow, my mouse was always at least 5 seconds behind my last movement and it never moved fluently...I'm not making this up, this will drive you nutts. I couldn't even complete one hand of poker before I took the game out of my computer and uninstalled it. There is no excuse for software gliches like that. Oh yeah, it took almost 30 minutes to download, what PC game takes 30 minutes to download?...Finally, the "create a character" mode only has about 4 different body types and 4 different faces....All of the faces look like 40 yr old axe murderers and old fat ladies. This GAME SUCKS...DON'T EVER BUY IT...I just left mine at the office depot customer service desk, I don't care what they do with it....Just don't buy it.

Moneymaker himself wouldn't play this game. Why? He'd be embarrassed getting knocked off the first table or repeatedly bluffed off hands when AI players call pot-sized bets for half their stack with nothing and will re-raise you with just a K.

I went to the web-site to see if I could download a patch as apparently this game shipped without any logic. I'm amazed that some sites give this product a 3.8/10 rating - based on what? Afraid to upset the poker community?

worst.game.ever

The beginning level players call trip all ins without a draw and catch more often than not, leaving you broke. Therefore it is almost impossible to get to the tournaments and frustrates players honing skills.

I have a freind who plays Texas Holdem all the time. I thought I should brush up on this game so I wouldn't go broke on poker night.Not ever playing this game with real people I was wanting something very realistic. All though the cards are pretty hard to see; unless your sitting right on top of your monitor. I slowly progressed up the ranks to season mode. Like your other reviewer stated. As long as You stay patient You can easily place/win money in the season modes. The closer You get to playing " Chris Moneymaker " the more your opponents cards are drawing trips and full houses almost back to back !! Good poker players always say that there is so much skill involved in texas holdem. But there really is quite a bit more luck involved than they would like to freely state.In this game You can get cash prizes for placing seventh in a table of ten? If You can't place seventh out of ten players,please don't play Texas Holdem for real money.Unless the buy-in is $5.00 Tim