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| From: Crave Entertainment
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $23.00
You Save: $6.99 (23%)
New (7) Used (8) from $7.99
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 8846
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: Casino Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: 09901
Model: 6.50E+11
UPC: 650008099010
EAN: 0650008099010
ASIN: B0007M228O
Release Date: April 15, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-8 of 8
 If you love texas hold em' you just may hate this game February 2, 2007
J. Gregory (APO, AE United States)
I recently ordered this game to work on hold em when I dont have a chance to play with. This game is slow paced and frustrating. I wish that they used more buttons to help with options like all in and folding. It does have a wide variety of card games. But, overall I did not enjoy this game and it will collect dust on my shelf.
 Not for Texas hold em player March 24, 2007
J. D. Garcia (Abilene Texas)
If you want to play/practice not limit Texas hold em, this is not the game for you. This has other card games, and limit texas hold em, but you get bored in 10 minutes with its limited options.
Muck It! January 14, 2008
M. McNally (Ketchikan, AK, USA)
Summary: Bafflingly bad interface and poor computer-player AI make this collection of poker games an unplayable mess.
Showing unmistakable signs of having been programmed by someone who has never played poker before, "World Championship Poker: Deluxe Series" suffers from so many flaws it's hard to know where to begin. It's hard to believe that anyone who knows poker was involved with this game at any stage -- certainly not with the game play, programming, or play-testing of the game.
Really, the game is a total mess. Play is slow. The character animations are repetitive and annoying (for example, virtually every hand played seems to end with the computer character pronouncing "Read 'em and weep!", even hands where, due to player folds, no cards are shown down. Weep indeed..) And critical information needed for understanding opponents' betting patterns is inexplicably absent (e.g.: fold a hand in hold'em or Omaha and the board cards are not displayed, only the resultant five-card hand formed by each remaining player. This latter behavior alone would be sufficient cause to reject the game but sadly it's just the tip of the iceberg.) Throw in a host of other bad interface decisions (e.g.: after every single hand the DS asks you whether you want to leave the game) and you will start to wonder whether the designers weren't just unfamiliar with the game of poker but were unfamiliar with the rudiments of game play in general. Seriously. It's THAT bad.
The computer's play is so awful I consider this game a potential hazard to beginning players trying to learn how to properly play the included poker variants. Habits which this game would reward would quickly bankrupt a player in a real-life card game.
I strongly recommend against purchasing this game. Not suitable even from the bargain bin. Choose another title instead.
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