No Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament Edition 2006

by Encore

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000BO8CHS
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 21, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,118 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

DD No Limit Texas Hold’em Tournament Edition is one of the first titles to combine tournament practice with tournament management software. You can select from a list of tournaments, customize them, or design one from scratch. The game lets you specify the buy-in amount, blind structure, level time limit and payout amounts so that the DD Poker tournament matches whatever tournament you are practicing. Try to make it to the final table and win it all! DD Poker creates challenging computer opponents that track how you play. The computer players have excellent memories. You'll swear the computer is picking up on your tells.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Feelings, May 15, 2006

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F. Presson "Freeman" (Birmingham, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: No Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament Edition 2006 (CD-ROM)

I bought this title because it didn't cost as much as some of the other options and because I didn't figure Phil Gordon would endorse anything that wasn't useful.

The poker calculator and tournament timer are great features, although the calculator is painfully slow compared to pokerstove, which is free. The home game I play in uses the tournament timer, although that's all the use I personally have for it at present.

I have not tried playing online through this program, since I play online all the time anyway, so I am not evaluating that feature.

However, the much-vaunted "AI" opponents are just not very good, and one could form some really bad habits by practicing against them. In particular, they check and call too much, and lay down to any bet or raise any time the flop misses them, so you can pile up chips with impunity, and you know as soon as they even call a raise that they have a hand and you can let that one go. You encounter a few players like this in real tournaments, but they usually aren't the ones with lots of chips, and like bank robber Willie Sutton, you need to go where the chips are.

The graphics are mildly irritating, and if the colors are customizable, I didn't find those options.

This might be OK for a beginner to use for a while, but if you're even close to becoming a strong player, I wouldn't expect too much help here.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great way to sharpen your Texas Hold'em skills, April 14, 2006

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G. Wenger - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: No Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament Edition 2006 (CD-ROM)

"No Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament Edition 2006" aka "DD Poker 2" is a fun way to improve your poker skills. Although the retail name starts with "No Limit", that's really due to the tremendous popularity of "no limit" these days - the game also supports limit and pot limit.

Free updates to the game have improved the AI of computer opponents. Playing against the computer in "Practice" mode is now quite challenging.

Of course the best way to practice poker is against other people, and DD Poker 2 provides multiple ways to do that too. Online games can be private games against friends, co-workers, and family (either via a LAN or over the Internet) or public Internet games that other DD Poker 2 owners host. All such games are for free - what's at stake is your pride (and your ranking on DD's Leaderboard when you play in public games). That said, you could in theory play private games for money and settle up separately (DD Poker obviously does nothing to facilitate this).

The level of play in public games varies from fast and furious games where play is wild and unsophisticated (very similar to some of the free online poker sites) to expert play in invitationals (great practice for late stage or final table play in money tournaments). If your primary goal is to improve your poker skills, then play well, be polite, and post on the forums and you'll soon be able to play in some very challenging high skill online games.

The game also features great analysis of your play hand by hand (it keeps extensive records of how you've played), a poker clock that you can use to remind you of the current blinds if you host a home game, and a poker calculator/simulator that lets you figure out what the odds are in almost any conceivable situation.

What's missing in this version? Well there aren't any cutesy animated graphics of your fellow poker players, but personally I don't mind that. The game focuses solidly on useful and fun ways to improve your poker skills while enjoying yourself.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for online play, November 16, 2005

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Cindy K. - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: No Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament Edition 2006 (CD-ROM)

DD Poker 2 is great for playing online over the internet. The public games are fun and the online community is very friendly. I love the stats that they keep on their website (for free). The best part about playing online is you can fill empty seats with DD Poker's computer players (AI). It's much tougher than in version 1.0. Another fun thing is playing with a private group of friends over the LAN. Overall, a great revision to an good original.