Lengthy sometimes but great!

I was in a game for nearly 3 hours before I kept folding too much and eventually lost and got 2nd place. The very next game all players got eliminated in almost 10 minutes. I had eliminated everyone and gotten there by getting 2 Flushes in a row betting 3000 chips at a time to get everyone to go all in. I was left with one guy who had a measly 225 chips left haha. He got me with a pair of 10’s but then the next hand I got him eliminated with a pair. I got 1st place! That whole game took about a little over 10 minutes. It can be very fun once you start getting good hands. But can be aggravating when you get bad hand after bad hand and the other guy bets 800 chips for no reason even though he has bad cards. Good tactic to boot the other person out. Sparky is a little devil! Good ad free game and I will continue to play.

Worst Game Of All Time.

I don’t normally write reviews, especially not ones this lengthy, but this game has broken me to the point of submission. All of the other negative reviews are right, this game is absolute trash and undoubtedly the WORST mobile game I have EVER had the displeasure of playing; not because it’s bad or because I’m unskilled, the game is the worst because it has the potential to be the best. I LOVE Texas Hold’em, and this game is phenomenal in its gameplay, and there are no ads nor in-app purchases to be found. It is killed by the worst AI ever coded into a game, combined with stacked odds. Firstly, you are not given enough money when you buy in, so the first hand played often requires you to go all-in because the bots all just raise each other one after another. Secondly, the bots randomly go all-in themselves for no reason before the flop half the time, causing you to blindly match them or go all-in yourself based solely on your pocket. Thirdly, 95% of the hands you are dealt are absolute garbage and, to add insult to injury, on the RARE occasion that you DO get anything decent, the normally gung-ho bots will all fold the second you bet even the MINIMUM amount possible. I can confidently say that this game has worse odds than any casino I’ve ever been to, and I would happily pay a few dollars like $4.99 to purchase this game if they simply fixed those issues. It has the potential to be the greatest poker game on the app-store, but for now, it isn’t.

Fun Game. Needs More Levels. A Little Buggy

The game is fun and I suppose challenging enough to hold interest. The ability to swipe away and pick back up later is nice as I don’t regularly sit down for a long play of Poker but will try to win a few hands while on hold or something. I’m up to $9.3 million in winnings which is where it starts to get a little boring. I would have to go on a 93 game losing streak to get back to square one so there is no longer any risk. I’d like to see more levels or higher stakes as I can only play in Macau so many times before I want to do something else. It is a little buggy at times. The pot payouts routinely show much less than you actually won. Say you win $25k in a hand… the display may show $9800 but the $25k actually gets put into your chip stash. It can be confusing to see but at least the money all makes it in and you don’t lose your winnings. I have noticed that I have been dealt the same hand as many as three times in a row in a game indicating something off with the “shuffling”. Overall it’s a fun game that doesn’t take much effort to play and isn’t serious or overly competitive.

Stay Away!

Love the game play, the graphics, no ads. However the programming is horrendous. I’ve lost on the river card 63 times and won 7 times I’ve gone all in (it’s actually a lot more than that but I started keeping track after I saw how often it happened.) I’ve either got the worst luck in the world or there is some funky programming. To add to that, almost all of those have been losing to a much worse hand. The programming clearly is not random which takes away some of the fun of the game Note: After reading many other reviews I realized it’s not me. The bots are truly programmed against you in an unrealistic fashion. I guess the developers don’t read the reviews because clearly they have not fixed the issue Update: I finally had to delete the game after it became so ridiculous. Losing on the river 75 times and winning 7, consistently losing to much worse hands (last straw was losing three in a row, the last was pair Q to 8-4; two before that was pair K to 3-7 - hit flush on river card), and when suited flopped entirely opposite color 85% of the time. Edit - I downloaded this again to see if the problem had been fixed. Nope my first game I got beat on the river three times in a row.

25% Fun, 75% Ridiculous unrealistic Bot hands!

This app could be a lot more fun if it wasn’t for the Botched programming! Really? I guess their trying to be like Vegas House? In real poker, u’ll never see as many 4 of a kinds, full houses, flushes, Etc etc! Bots betting with a 2 & 5 going all in against a pair of Aces & guess who pulls a straight every time… not me! 2 Kings-forget it, they’ll pull 2 Aces🤷‍♀️With this app, the Bots get them nearly Every hand. Bots tend to kno ur hand before u do! Most of the time I’ve gotta Lose up to 10 games before I'm allowed to win that’s how bad it gets. Has potential if it’s reprogrammed in a realistic manner. Graphics are really nice, table setting & avatars are cool too. Except for the unrealistic ridiculously So called Luck the bots have? overall a very nice programmed app. Has potential to be a 5 star app! I would NOT recommend this app for someone learning or a beginner. Way too Frustrating & jaw dropping with “Bot” Plays! Just read/see ALL the critical reviews. Or not & see for ur self. Again, app has potential to be One of the Better poker apps available if fixed accordingly!

Good game. Few glitches

I am 100% blind, and the fact that this game is fully accessible is really awesome! The only problem is there is a few glitches. For example, when I first start the game and play for a few minutes or so the game plays really good. I get nice random hands that I can play off of. After a while of playing it seems like it stops giving me random hands, and it starts giving me one high card and one low card every time. I tested this by folding every time, and it happened at least 18 times in a row before I just quit. Another glitch seems to be when I actually do win, the game simply won't let me collect my earnings or continue to the next screen. Sometimes it will literally kick me out of the game completely. Other times it will keep my same cards, it will let me bet, then it tells me who wins. Then it just repeats. I have played this game in both Portrait, and landscape mode. I have an iPhone 13 that's only one year old, so I doubt it's my phone. Thank you for reading my review.

Same ol poker

Every poker game I download seems like the computer knows the cards before they flip. At first I thought I was being paranoid. But then I paid close attention. The first 3 cards were 2,4,7 and the computer went all in. And I was puzzled because it wasn’t a flush and I had a pair of kings. Then the flop and river flipped and it was a 3 and a 6. The computer had a 5 and a jack. The next time the cards were 3♠️ , k♦️, 9♠️and I had a pair of queens. The computer went all in for a total of $3,000+. The flop and river were a 2♠️ and k♠️ computer ends with a flush having a 5♠️ and a 7❤️. When I first got to the cruise ship the first 5 hands were last card flushes whenever I had the winning pair going into the flop. It’s an entertaining game, but when you start going to different levels your cards are horrible. The skill of the computer doesn’t grow. They just give them high cards constantly. Or will bait you in knowing the other players know what’s coming next. The logic should be to keep the cards random and have the computer learn how to manage their cards better as you go on. It’s not a complete deal breaker as i stated before, all poker games do this. Even some spades games also. Aside from this - the game is solid. you can tell the developers wanted to produce a great game. Once/if this gets fixed I will return and upgrade to 5 stars.

Bad Tilt

This rating is based on the single player mode, going up against AI bots. The game is great as far as a very clean interface, smooth flow, easy to read - and no ads. The bug is in the programming - whereas, in an all-in showdown, an AI opponent will beat you on the river 19 out of 20 times; regardless of how strong your starting hand is - or how weak theirs is. In one game, with all other opponents already eliminated - the lone remaining bot beat me on the river on 3 separate occasions. I had a huge chip lead - he was all-in on each of these occasions with 2-4 unsuited, ultimately pulling a back door straight; including the last one that took me out. These are not just random bad beats ; it needs to be fixed. It’s totally unrealistic. It wasn’t always like this; and perhaps it’s only the room I’m in (Paris). When I first started I quickly progressed through the lower level rooms; and even in Paris I was winning my fair share - for some reason though, at some point it just tilts this way - and once it does - there’s nothing you can do. It’s pointless.

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