
Addictive and Frustrating
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This was my first PSP poker game, and so I don't have any points of comparison to the graphics and gameplay. Both seem OK to me, although the cards are extremely tiny - sometimes difficult to tell the difference between a spade and a club.
I can say that load times in and out of games seem to be longer than they should be, and until I found you could hit the "X" button to move the in-game action along, it was "fold and nap". I like the career concept which works pretty well except for being forced at times to play a particular type of game that you would rather not. It does expose you to all sorts of varieties of poker - this is not simply another Texas Hold Em game. It does NOT teach you how to play properly, or give any worthwhile hints to the newbies.
I have encountered numerous frustrating lockups, both during the course of a tournament, and a couple times at the final table. The mfr knows about this bug, otherwise they wouldn't have a cheat to get you past it. Your player suffers as a result of using the "skip" cheat, as potential skill points are lost, as well as the "trinkets" that you would win had you finished and won the tourney.
For all it's flaws, I keep playing it anyway. If you are deciding between this title and another poker title, you might want to give the other a close look.
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