World Championship Poker

by SVG Distribution

Product Features

• Genre: Casino Gaming
• Mission: Compete your way into the World Championship Poker tournament
• 4 different poker games, bonus casino games, multiple tournaments
• Learn the rules through easy-to-follow tutorials

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002IBE0U
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 5 x 0.8 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: May 18, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,336 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Game Boy Advance

World Championship Poker takes the popularity of TV poker and brings it to your Gamy Boy Advance! Players will soon be going all-in with "the pure nuts" and stealing pots left and right.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great cartoon poker game, November 19, 2004

By 

Crankypage (California, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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

Far from a simulation, this is cartoon poker with four-person tables. The computer starts out easy to beat but does get more somewhat more difficult as you progress through the "career mode." The noises made by the "personalities" at the table - grunts and sighs, mostly - quickly reach the point of annoyance. If anyone else is within earshot, turn the sound off! The interface is clean and generally usable for poker, although the blackjack and video poker games are not nearly as well thought out (no re-bet button, for example, so you have to re-enter your bet each time.) It's whimsical and fun for what it is, but with this, Ultimate Card Games poker section, and the Texas Hold 'Em cart all having shortcomings, we're still waiting for the great hardcore poker game for the GBA.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun to pass the time, but not for a serious player, December 28, 2004

By 

Chris Uzdavinis (Charleston, SC USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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

Overall, I call this game mediocre. It's sort of fun, but there are several really annoying things about it.

The music is repeative, and the sound effects from your opponents (yells, coughs, screams, etc) are really, really dumb. I haven't found a way to turn them off yet, either, and am not sure that there is one other than the volume slider.

Second, the opponents are truly morons. They bet and bet heavily, rarely folding even with obviously losing hands. It's nearly impossible to bluff, as they almost always call. You can still lose quickly to them, but only because they make the stakes high and you may be dealt bad cards. If you fold when your cards stink, and wait for a good hand, in no time you will wipe them out.

I am a poor poker player, and just got this game 2 days ago, and have already won the World Championship and am up about 3.5 million dollars. Just to put things in perspective. It's high stakes against idiots. If you can get over that, the game is entertaining, unless you're good.

Third, while Hold'em is pretty well done, there are some oversights that make some of the other games unplayable. For example, draw poker and seven card stud are absolutely worthless. You have opponents that continue raising and betting, but you do not see how many cards they draw, and in the stud game there are no visible cards of your opponent. Maybe there's a trick into getting them shown, but I have left those tables and not been back, it is just not fun. It's playing in the dark, and just bad.

Another minor nit I have to pick is when you leave a table, the "map" of the casino always jumps back to the beginning, rather than remaining at the table you are at. So if you lose a round and want to return for another game, you have to navigate to the table again and again. It grows tiring for me to do repeative things, even when it's just 5 seconds or so.

Overall, the betting is unrealistic, the opponents are morons, the sound effects are tiring, but in a cartoonish sort of way it is still fun enough to play, at least as a kill-time until a better poker game comes out.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Portable Fun, May 6, 2005

By 

Reuben Gathright "rgathright" (United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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

This is a good game if you want to kill 30 minutes.

You must play the Texas Hold'em tables until you are eligible for World Championship poker. Then save the code. Once you have the code you can play with the "advanced" level of AI and have a more realistic version of poker.

The game is not perfect, but the ability to see the other players make it the most realistic version of poker out there.

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