Thursday October 13, 2005

GBA Texas Hold'EM Poker There are a fair number of poker games you can play on your hand held. This has to be one of the worse. The game play is painful. You keep flipping back and forth between a table view and an individual hand view. The effect is one of constantly moving and not being really sure where one is. This is really not needed. You know you have between 2 and 9 opponents, each has two cards, some number of chips, and can do a limited set of actions. That information can be easily represented with a fixed display. The game played appears to be NLHE. You are allowed to raise yourself all in. But it also appears that you can raise less then the previous bet or raise. Once, when the blinds were 5-10, I raised to 45 and had another player raise me to 50. Standard poker rules are that if you raise you either have to go all-in or rise at least as much as the last person. In some card room the open is considered the bet in others its considered a raise. But in either case my opponent (who wasn't all in) couldn't raise 5 off of my bet. Everytime I jammed all of my opponents called. That created the following situation in which the computer misread the hands. The hands outs were Ac4s (me, I jammed), 6d8d, Ah9s, Js4d, Qs7d. The final board was 8h 5s Ad Ks Qh. The third players hand ended up being Ah Ad Ks Qh 9s. My handed ended up being Ah Ad Ks Qh 8h. Note that the third players hand is better then mine by a single card. But the computer split the pot. I'm not sure how gamespot gave this a 5.7 out of 10. I wouldn't call this mediocre but just bad. Don't waste your time. ( Oct 13 2005, 07:08:45 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]