Right at the beginning it offers a remarkably malleable character creator. While WPT frequently descends into farce, it can occasionally surprise here and there. World Poker Tour is certainly an effective step forward in replicating the pursuit on a console, but unfortunately the previous step was flipping miles off. I'm not brilliant, but I can hold my own. I go to a 40-player tournament twice a week, and often find myself wiling away a quiet hour with some online play at a safely priced 5/10c table. The continuing international phenomenon of Texas Hold 'Em (such that you can't turn on Rich Man's Telly without at least one channel showing a game, any time of day) means that everyone's trying to find ways to make a buck (so long as it doesn't involve actually playing Texas Hold 'Em) before the fad fades away.ĭon't get me wrong - I've fully embraced the fad. We do seem to be rather lacking a decent poker game. Second, if you want to play online poker, there are ridiculous numbers of far easier ways to do it, with infinitely more appropriate interfaces, making the online options of WPT entirely defunct from the off.) First, I played it on PS2 and I'm not a witch. (From the start, it's probably best to establish that this is a single-player review of World Poker Tour, despite its online capabilities.
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