World Championship Poker Deluxe Series

by Crave Entertainment

Product Features

• Twelve types of poker and card games including Texas Hold'em, Five Card Draw , Video Poker and Black Jack
• Interactive Poker tutorials for each game
• Wireless multiplayer for up to six players, featuring a smack talk system so you can taunt your opponents
• Quick Play for players who just want to play a quick tournament style card game
• Career mode that features four 3D themed casinos, poker tournaments, a Loan Shark and a Gift Shop

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007M228O
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: April 15, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,273 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #2 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Casino
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Can't scare up the cash for a road trip to Reno? Don't despair. World Championship Poker DS puts you in the fast and freewheeling world of high-stakes poker.

Features:

• 12 poker and card games: Texas Hold’em, Double Flop, Pineapple, Omaha Hold 'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Hi-Lo, Baseball, 5 Card Draw, Deuces Wild, Video Poker, and Blackjack
• Text-based tutorials for each game
• Wireless multiplayer for up to six players, featuring a "smack talk" system so you can taunt your opponents
• Quick Play for players who just want to play a quick tournament-style card game
• Career mode features four 3D-themed casinos, poker tournaments, a loan shark, and a gift shop
• Customize your character with bling as you rake in more pots
• You can create a character, choosing from various head and body types and fashion choices, or go with a default character. Then you head to the table to confront a menagerie of old guys, cowboys, mullet-heads, bikers, young studs, babes, and little old ladies. In short, your usual Tuesday 2 a.m. crowd in Vegas. CPU-controlled characters tend to violate the number-one rule of poker by showing more emotion than a soap-opera vixen.

Bottom line: Curious about the poker fad? World Championship Poker provides a good intro and a fun multiplayer mode for those times when you find yourself without chips and cards.

Product Description

World Championship Poker puts players in the fast and freewheelin' world of high-stakes poker. Players will soon be going all-in with "the pure nuts" and stealing pots left and right! Customize your character with bling as you rake in more pots

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for serious players, October 13, 2005

By 

MonacoM (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: World Championship Poker Deluxe Series (Video Game)

I recently purchased this game in the hopes of honing my skillset in reading hands and betting strategy. As a veteran of poker for almost 20 years, I'm always looking for new ways to practice. This game isn't up to par.

The AI is terrible. I have seen the computer go all-in on a 7 & 2 unsuited...and won. Likewise, any time that I have a descent hand, the computer folds like crazy. I'm almost afraid to get pocket aces as I am assured that no one will bet. The ability to purchase skillsets is interesting, but I don't see any advantage to it. All in all, the AI is not up to snuff, and leads me to bet understanding the betting patterns of the computer rather than on what an actual real life player would do.

The UI for the game is annoying to say the least. You automatically have to turn off animations as the game comes to a crawl. Likewise, every time a bet is made, the game rotates to view the player making the bet which takes forever. Walking the streets to me is time consuming and uninteresting.

The only thing good about this game is that it does expose the average player to many different poker varieties. Omaha, Stud, Hold-em. If you want to learn poker games, this could be a good place to start (or just buy a poker book and you may be better off).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Muck It!, January 13, 2008

By 

M. McNally (Ketchikan, AK, USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: World Championship Poker Deluxe Series (Video Game)

Summary: Bafflingly bad interface and poor computer-player AI make this collection of poker games an unplayable mess.

Showing unmistakable signs of having been programmed by someone who has never played poker before, "World Championship Poker: Deluxe Series" suffers from so many flaws it's hard to know where to begin. It's hard to believe that anyone who knows poker was involved with this game at any stage -- certainly not with the game play, programming, or play-testing of the game.

Really, the game is a total mess. Play is slow. The character animations are repetitive and annoying (for example, virtually every hand played seems to end with the computer character pronouncing "Read 'em and weep!", even hands where, due to player folds, no cards are shown down. Weep indeed..) And critical information needed for understanding opponents' betting patterns is inexplicably absent (e.g.: fold a hand in hold'em or Omaha and the board cards are not displayed, only the resultant five-card hand formed by each remaining player. This latter behavior alone would be sufficient cause to reject the game but sadly it's just the tip of the iceberg.) Throw in a host of other bad interface decisions (e.g.: after every single hand the DS asks you whether you want to leave the game) and you will start to wonder whether the designers weren't just unfamiliar with the game of poker but were unfamiliar with the rudiments of game play in general. Seriously. It's THAT bad.

The computer's play is so awful I consider this game a potential hazard to beginning players trying to learn how to properly play the included poker variants. Habits which this game would reward would quickly bankrupt a player in a real-life card game.

I strongly recommend against purchasing this game. Not suitable even from the bargain bin. Choose another title instead.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A don't buy!!!!, November 19, 2008

By 

William W. Crane (Olympia, WA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: World Championship Poker Deluxe Series (Video Game)

I don't know what game Mr. M.D. Rutter was playing but, it couldn't have been this one. Not only are the graphics terrible, along with the above mentioned interface but, and this was the killer for me... on more than one hand, more than one player had the same cards. On one hand, three players, including myself, had 3 kings. This game is not for beginners, for intermediate, or for advanced players. This game isn't for anyone. If someone offers to pay you good money, to take this game off of their hands, DON'T DO IT!!!