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Worst Poker game
I was looking forward to play poker on 360. Everything everybody has mentioned above is true. Also the game is so slow. They "try" to make it realistic timing but that failed. There are times when i'm pressing bet, bet or fold, fold but my player whats to take 5 more seconds to think about it before acting on my command.

Horrible poker game.

An arcade game, not a poker game
I was given this game as a gift. I play poker competitively as well as for fun and do use software to practice (such as DD Poker) but the person who gave it to me had no experience of poker and just thought this would be fun for me and my new 360.

Fair enough, I'll give it a go. I was a bit taken aback that the introduction was both simplistic and time-consuming, but I'll try anything once. I set up a career and entered a tournament. Sat out a couple of hands, blinds at 5/10, in the cutoff, player under the gun makes a raise. Person next to him also raises. Then the entire table calls. I'm baffled at this point (early raise means power, re-raise of a power hand means a monster, so everyone else should have folded, not called), but of course I've now been given great odds so I'll play whatever I have. I look down at AA. Nice. So I bet the pot to clear most people out. And everyone else instead follows me in... and of course my As get cracked.

I'm not sure who this game is aimed at. The betting makes no sense, the AI will play any two cards, the BB ALWAYS calls if no-one else does making it impossible to steal the blinds - in other words it's all hugely unrealistic and won't teach you anything about poker. I think that it is, as the title says, an arcade game for those who want to dabble and pretend that it's the real thing without wanting to take it so far as to understand poker strategy and tactics.

As a final aside, I was very disappointed in the graphics and sound - 360 is all about the visual and auditory experience, and this game takes no advantage of that.

Overall, avoid this game.

fun, but...
the game is fun and helps your game out a bit, but it is very repetitive... you can... no you will get sick of the catch phrases that the characters say... dont get me wrong though, you can always turn down the sound to the tv, turn on your stereo or head phones and it is just like your in the game...

If I hear that sneeze one more time!
I was so looking foward to this Xbox360 version of the WSP, but I must say
I am disapointed, with the overall gameplay. The AI is a step up from the old xbox version but the game can be very tedious. Plus I have to play with the game background off due to the same old lame comments and background noises (sneeze ect)

Poker is still fun - but the Presentation , etc. is poor
Buying this game for a 360 is kinda like driving all the way to Las Vegas and finding out that pinball is the only game in town. It is disappointing - much like Halle Berry as Catwoman. We still like her, but the movie (presentation) was......well, you know. So, as much as I love to play poker, the Xbox 360 WSOP presentation on a very capable machine could have been much, much better.