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  • Summary: Enter the fast and freewheeling world of high-stakes poker with World Championship Poker. From Texas Hold'em to Seven-Card Stud and Omaha High-Low, you can play more than 18 different poker games, each with in-game tutorials. Once you're ready, you can travel to six tournament locations, ranging from a TV studio to a Mississippi riverboat, to compete for the championship. Every good poker player needs a solid poker face; mold your character's look with more than 80 different options. Expand
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  1. Taking your talents onto Xbox Live is the real key. [March 2005, p.84]
  2. If you have an interest in poker and you have Xbox Live, you will certainly get more out of this budget title than someone who only plays it offline.
  3. Ultimately a decent effort, but only because of its online play. The offline component of the game is simply too pointless and spotty to hold anyone's attention.

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  1. MatC.
    4
    It's poker. It's ok, but the lack of camera choices is terrible. It's just spin-o-rama, and you get dizzy. That, along with how you could "act nervous" with a good hand... it could be so, so much better. That, along with preloading actions. They didn't do their homework on this one... Expand
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