Ok, all the cable poker championships have gotten to me. When it's not poker night with the buddies, it's online poker at work...

Does anyone know of a program that has a version of Texas Hold 'Em I can run on my x3?

Don't know much about it, but...

http://www.aisoftware.spb.ru/

Later,
James

  

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Nice! I'm trying out the trials for all three in a minute. Thanks, guys

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Let us know what you like and why.

Later,
James

  

ya, i am interested in which one you like the best

    

I have the Hold 'em habit also and have it on my PC and play online. If I get the PocketPC version I can play 24 hours a day :-)

A bad day in the motorhome is
better than a good day at work.

I was out all day today Christmas shopping , but I've put all 3 trials on my Axim. I'll be playing tomorrow at work when I should probably be working...

Report tomorrow night! I need my fix!

Ok, I was able to sit down and test these 3 games for a decent amount of time when I should have been working. Needless to say the interns got plenty of on-the-job experience today

Anyway, I'm far from a professional reviewer, and the liquor in my system may skew my judgement a little , but here goes...

Texas Hold'Em (AI Software)

Graphically, this was the least attractive of the three. Apparently, you are playing on a white table mat, and the cards appear to have smeared jam or something on them. There is no sound, and unfortunately, the demo version is locked on "amateur" difficulty level... I was able to bluff almost every game . I wasn't enjoying myself at this point, and I decided to try...

Pocket Rockets Pro (BigSlick Software Inc.)

Wow, the title alone brought a smile to my face! I started it up and was immediately impressed by the graphics. One of the coolest things I read at the website was the fact that you can hook up with some buddies via infrared and go at it! Then I thought, "Gee, not all of my friends have a pda, and will the ones that own one want to spend $15 on a poker game to play virtual Texas Hold'Em?" I figure... if my friends and I were actually hanging out, we could play the real thing with a 2 dollar deck of cards. Part of the fun of this game is the interaction and looking into your drunk friend's eyes to try to figure out if he's bluffing or not. The infrared thing didn't seem so cool any more

So on the gameplay side of it - it's just you and Big Philly in a high stakes game of virtual poker! I suppose this big baller with 10k in his sock is willing to play you (you start with $99 big ones) to help your career going. I would prefer more opponents myself - even AI ones. Well, Big Philly didn't fall for all my bluffs, so it was a little more fun. The interface, however, is attractive as with big buttons for calling, raising and folding and big blue word balloons to indicate such.

It has a few different modes (career and tournament) that didn't seem to differ a whole heck of a lot. Another slight caveat I had was how slow things move... the menu screens move in slow, the cards are dealt slow. This started to wear on me after a while

So except for the nice graphics and very nice help screens (a tutorial), I figured I'd hold onto my $14.95 and move onto...

Crazy Bird's PokerHand (Birdsoft)

The website has a screenshot with a picture of a dog who appears to be wearing a bathrobe. "My kind of humor!", I thought. Upon closer inspection, it just appears to be a dog draped on a couch or something (can someone please clarify?).

To my dismay, the demo only contained 1 version of poker (Omaha?) and no Texas Hold 'Em , but the full version has 11 different Poker games. The graphics were simple, and it had pings and beeps which were enough for me, so I decided to re-visit the website for a little more info. There I saw...

Card Backs, including new custom card backs (make your own)
Player Names
Table and Text Colors
Custom Background Images - Use Today Theme Images!

I'm a graphics designer, so this seemed extremely cool to me... I could make the background an actual game table! Put pictures of me on the card backs! Use a profane player name when I'm feeling particularly juvenile! And the greatest thing I saw at the website...

Only $8.50

I could put the money I save toward a new sd card...

So, I decided to buy Crazy Bird's PokerHand. It'll serve its purpose and kill time when I'm not physically with my buddies playing Texas Hold 'Em... and I don't need fancy graphics and infrared when I'm playing a little poker-to-go. Ultimately, the few dollars I save can go into my Axim Accessory Fund (512, here I come!).

Nice reviews of these titles, Rorschach. Also, I think the dog is laying with it's front half on a man's leg....looks like a man wearing a red shirt and khaki/white slacks.

I'm considering trying out PokerHand myself.

Jordan M. Wigley
Aximsite.com
Email: jordan AT aximsite.com

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I downloaded the AI Poker, white mat ugly cards. I bluffed every pot and they all stayed in. After 9 hands my demo was over and the AI was uninstalled.

I tried The one with Big Philly and it did suck. Sorry but my review will be short since Rorschach did such an amazing job.

Crazy Birds was ok, but I was looking for something more. I wished to save my pot after exit and it does not do that. I'll live. CrazyBird's it is. I bought it the day I tried it because I want Hold Em.

I play poker weekly and online often. I watch it all of the time. People thought I was crazy, but then it became popular and I wasn't looked on as though I had a gambling problem as much when people began to see how fun it was.

I think if I could improve CrazyBirds I would, just save my pots on exit.

my sock monkey can beat
your sock monkey's ass.

Saving pots would be nice... I hadn't even thought of that. Kind of like those little handhelds.

Man, I didn't see the big deal with Hold 'Em myself until my friend made me sit down and watch it at his place one night. Now instead of bar-hopping on Fridays, we all gather at his house for poker night. Guys-night-out is now guys-night-in

Incidentally, fux, I happen to work in Orange County Right there in Santa Ana off the 55 at a small advertising firm.

Ubergamer

Glad that PokerHand was the overwhelming choice!!


I am now working on something that should be out in the next week or two that will feel more like the online games(and your home games), and will have even better Hold'Em Specific AI, and play like real tourneys.....

Yes, I have the Bug too, got the WPT on DVDs for Xmas!!! woo hoo!!




Brian
Birdsoft

About the Dog:
My wife thinks its so Great that our Dog is Famous!! Yes,
Mocha was sprawled over my dad's knee... Too bad she couldnt
stay that small!!