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Chris Moneymaker’s World Poker Championship
Chris Moneymaker’s World Poker Championship is a Texas hold ‘em-focused
game that happens to feature a few other games like five-card draw,
seven-card stud, and Omaha hold ‘em.
The game boasts a few different modes, but they’re really all the
same mode structured differently. You can play in some
single-elimination games, tournaments, and a season, which is a series
of tournaments where you play head-to-head against Chris Moneymaker at
the end.
Chris Moneymaker’s World Poker Championship does, at the very least,
feature a decent poker interface that’s easy to use and manage. The game
itself isn’t much to look at, with just a top-down view of an
eight-player table that generally looks crusty and pixelated. The
players rarely move or emote, and despite the fact that the back of the
box boasts "10 exotic international casinos," the only time you see them
is when you’re choosing your game at the very beginning. There’s very
little audio, save for some annoying announcer chatter, some awful
music, and some generally unassuming shuffling of cards and chips. It’s
bare-bones stuff that’s probably best left turned off.
There’s a certain irony to be noted in the fact that Chris
Moneymaker, of all people, is the one hocking this half-baked poker
game. This is, after all, the same guy who acts as the spokesperson for
one of the better free poker sites on the Internet, one that
features a ton of people playing online at any given time and costs
absolutely nothing. Yet now he wants you to drop $20 on this slightly
functional, altogether bad game of poker that features nobody playing
online and atrocious computer opponents? I
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