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  • Summary: Starting at the Jokers table on the floor of the vibrant casino work your way up to the esteemed Aces and Masters tables in the VIP penthouse. Buy your way into a game with earned credits, play your blinds, or go all in - whatever it takes to steal the pot and win the game. If Lady Luck isStarting at the Jokers table on the floor of the vibrant casino work your way up to the esteemed Aces and Masters tables in the VIP penthouse. Buy your way into a game with earned credits, play your blinds, or go all in - whatever it takes to steal the pot and win the game. If Lady Luck is on your side, you could win big and get the chance to enter a higher level table. The higher you go, the higher the stakes and the bigger the pot. With full online multiplayer support - you can choose to create a tournament with up to 7 friends or join an open table with other players looking for a quick poker fix. Are you all in? Expand
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  1. A well-made and exceptionally pretty poker game, but we're not entirely convinced Pure Hold'em's show-stopping looks justify the price of entry alone.
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  1. Aug 26, 2015
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    a) cards are dealt wrong

    b) your chips are stacked wrong and sloppy d)there are no BURN cards..which is why I feel the whole game is
    a) cards are dealt wrong

    b) your chips are stacked wrong and sloppy

    d)there are no BURN cards..which is why I feel the whole game is rigged poker..that and all the rigged hands I see with your AI players...seriously i've gotten trips on the flop NUMEROUS times only to be immediately put all in by one of your ai players with a little higher trips and only a very limited time to decide if my trips are high enough. VERY rigged!- a human player that didnt know what you had would bet a little to keep you in the pot, a computer player that knew you had trips too would go all in because they knew you'd call because who folds flopped trips?The rigged ai who runs off with real players chips should be removed- its pretty criminal to have it imo.

    e)when players go all in their cards should be flipped over immediately so everybody can see what they went all in with...thats the rules of poker...I dont think the developers know the rules of poker or care about them honestly.

    F) cards are too blurry/table view really sucks, half the time you cant see what other players had, or will hurt your eyes because it goes by to fast and is too blurry/the table view is TERRIBLE.

    G)did I mention the time to act is way to short like you want people making irrational decisions in a short amount of time with alot of chips on the line? Insane setup if you ask me

    H) Why does the open table jump from 100k to 1mil buy in? why is there NOTHING in between? where are the 200k, 250k, 300k, 400k, 500k...etc etc..? seems your filtering people to break them faster in my opinion.

    I)My game has crashed on me a handful of times, each time I play..if im in the middle of a pot, POOF all those chips i had in the pot are GONE..never to be seen again. All support will tell you is "sorry you have no proof". LOL except the multiple reports on your forums? the developers are pretty much criminal here guys! I can almost assure you of this! I can have 10k or 50k in there, doesnt matter...luckily whatever im sitting at with at the table is still there when I reload, but still. I wont even play tourney's because I made it heads up and the game crashed and lost my buy-in and had chip lead and didnt even give me the win, nor my buy in back!

    J)I cant say this too often, AI -NON human players needs REMOVED-they only serve the purpose of ROBBING players of chips, i see it left and right on every table I play at..all they do is fold fold fold and setup players by giving them trips and flushes then putting them all in only to reveal higher trips/ or quads/fullhouse on your flush. Then they're replaced with a human player and POOF all those chips are gone and out of play.

    So ya, its poker, but a very rigged and broken version of it designed to keep you having to purchase their chip packages if your dumb enough to. Everybody I see thats purchased their 1mil or 20 mil chip packages has been losing due to this rigged version of poker their introducing here. Stay away from the computer all ins at all costs! and keep writing the developers demanding they change the format to fix my above mentioned rules of poker to be more in line with them and get rid of these crooked ai players they introduced! We dont need ai players..they serve us no purpose here!
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  2. Aug 28, 2015
    2
    2 Rating for trying.
    Basic functions(pre betting, calling, checking, folding) are impossible to do when game is lagging. Are you thinking the
    2 Rating for trying.
    Basic functions(pre betting, calling, checking, folding) are impossible to do when game is lagging. Are you thinking the same thing? How could a poker game lag. Well guess what? I found a poker game that does.
    Also it comes with 2 fixed views of the table making it impossible to angle the camera from the very top angle to get a full view of the cards. Also betting is not smooth when you hold the stick up to bet it does not run the bet up. You have to keep tapping the Left stick up wasting more of your time when betting.
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  3. Aug 24, 2015
    2
    This is a horrible Holdem game. There are a couple minor annoyances like mismatched achievement awards but there are MAJOR problems. Mainly,This is a horrible Holdem game. There are a couple minor annoyances like mismatched achievement awards but there are MAJOR problems. Mainly, they don't follow poker protocol. The game doesn't burn cards before laying out the community cards AND it deals the cards in the wrong order. Anyone who's played holdem knows the small blind is dealt the first card, dealer always gets the last. This game deals the leftmost player first, regardless of where the button is. I regret spending $20 on it. Expand
  4. Aug 24, 2015
    1
    The game has all the basic options from Tournament play on several levels depending on how much you wish to wager of course dependant on theThe game has all the basic options from Tournament play on several levels depending on how much you wish to wager of course dependant on the bankroll you have and if you can actually find a game without sitting there for half an hour waiting for someone else to join, it also seems a bit odd that only the tournament winner gets a payout while second walks away with nothing.

    The game and format although it is in need of some tweaking in places is fairly solid and could make for a very enjoyable game BUT and you knew there would be a BUT the game is unstable and flawed, often you will join a game, play a few hands only to find you have lost connection but worst of all also lost your stake, now I had been putting up with that and writing off the odd 1000 credits every 4 or 5 games but after playing for a while and accumulating 6000 credits (no big deal I know but I was pleased) I lost in the final of a tournament only to return to the main screen and find all my credit has been wiped out.

    My verdict is they need to sort out the bugs and flaws very quickly or it will die
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  5. Jun 25, 2016
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    Do not waste your money!!! This game looks nice but makes me so angry, it is possibly the most blatantly rigged game you will play. Your handDo not waste your money!!! This game looks nice but makes me so angry, it is possibly the most blatantly rigged game you will play. Your hand will be beaten no matter what you do, be it full house, flush and even 4 of a kind!! Mind blown. Also it is full of money stealing bots that will take your money and simply dissapear. The game is also incredibly biased towards a handfull of players some having over a billion chips and simply never loose a hand. Feel so ripped off by the garbage. Gave it one point because it looks ok. Stay away from pure holdem Expand