At first I enjoyed this game. It was a fun enough time-waster that satisfied my craving for poker, but the cracks started showing real soon.

The biggest issue with the game, as many others have pointed out, is that the AI is rigged to a ridiculous degree. They will raise you pre-flop with completely unreasonable amounts with hands they should have folded instantly. And on top of that they more often than not get the exact river card they needed.

This goes the other way around as well. Something I've learned while playing this game is that you should fold instantly if you have a pocket pair. There's something seriously wrong with the game's coding because you never ever win with good hands, while something like 7/2 off-suit would have given you a full house on the river. Basically, the game encourages you to fold hands no player in real life would while playing hands that have very low odds of winning. And while yes, luck is a part of poker as well, but not to the extent this game takes it. I don't think I've won a single hand with pocket aces. Whenever I've had that hand, the flop is always something like 2 fives, and wouldn't you know it, somebody raised pre-flop with 3/5 off-suit.

This game has very little to do with skill, and is more of a guessing game as to when the computer is kind enough to let you win a hand. I still plan on finishing the game, but it's gonna get uninstalled the second I do.

Before getting this game I read several reviews that said something like, "Even though I don't like poker, I loved playing this game."

I enjoy playing poker. I find this game tedious and boring. You travel city to city playing poker and buying properties, which isn't bad; but in many of the poker tournaments you are forced to play are against ~50 or so opponents (as other players lose, they get replaced with new players). A single tournament can last 6-8+ hours. Then you move to the next city and repeat. The AI you play against is varied -- some players will bluff, some will fold unless they have a pair or better -- this makes for enjoyable and realistic play.

Only buy this game if you love this tournament style of poker playing.

I think people will have different experiences depending what you look for in a game. For me this game was awful. Well I should say the poker part was awful. If you are even semi serious about poker then this game isn't for you. Throw the idea of using odds to win out the window.
At one point I lost 6 hands in a row that I was 85%+ to win and on 3 of those occasions there was only 2 cards that could win it for them and they got them on the river. In fact out of those 6 wins they beat me 5 times with odds greatly against them and won on the river.
That was only an example of 6 hands. This happened multiple times to a point where logic and odds were pointless and just playing with "Click call and hope to win" was the only tactic left.
Others may have an better experience with this game but for me I would suggest staying away from it if you want anything remotely realistic in your poker.

Well if you like getting zero cards when going head to head or getting beat by a 2-6 off suit that over bets by 500% on no cards played yet....than this game is for you. No one in their right mind -- unless they are just in a game to give away money to the poor would bet on 80% of these hands (which they will win..because they hardly deal cards to your character.
Played now for about 20 hours--non pro setting -- which may be the problem.

Lets say the lay out cards are 8, Q, 10, 4, 9 / and you have A, J hold cards....they will win with a pr of 4's...the lowest cards possible - and I raised on the flop...hoping for a straight or high pair. They stayed in with 4 and 7 off suited. ...WOW...who in their right mind unless they are card counters, cheats or getting signals from the dealer at the table.

Software needs refinement...way too stupid - pure chance on any hand you get what so ever...high bets or no bets do nothing better. I will get a streak of 10 hands in a row, but win on a high card Ace....which I was just trying different things - blinds were 50/100...just over betting to see what they did. Showed cards, etc., whomever wrote the software has no clue about a real hand at a real poker table...just playing pure luck of anything.
On the train - played over 200 hands against 4 players. When down to the last one...I was up $5000. Blinds 200/400 If I would bet low on a good hand - he would fold. He would try and bully the hand - raise before flop. With my guy hardly getting even suited cards ...much less anything else to play -- for about 15 hands. He just took control..playing hard without anything. Could not win against him no matter what.

The resolution of the game is very small and for 4:3 monitors, there is a full screen option for 16:9 monitors but it keeps the native resolution and just stretches everything making is blurry, this for me is a game breaker, would it kill you to add more resolution options to your game?!

The gameplay itself from what i've experianced is alright for a single player poker game, do not buy it at retail though.

Looking at my time played you would guess this is an awesome game. It really could be, but the poker engine is so flawed at it's core that I find myself playing terrible poker to compete with terrible AI. So much so that my RL game suffered.

It's extremely addicting though, right up to the point where you just can't play it anymore without screaming in frustration. Good thing I got it on sale, as I'd be REALLY annoyed had I dropped 20 bucks on it.

you can choose windowed or full screen under options. Full screen is same tiny size just with a big black border. Too small on my screen to play

This is an excellent approximation of what it would be like to play poker against a series of children with ADD and only a basic grasp of the rules. All-ins pre-flop are routinely called by the computer player holding 4-6 off. 2-7 off is a must raise hand. It's impossible to put your opponents on anything as they basically play mostly randomly. Don't buy this game if you like poker.

https://youtu.be/FCX2jsUkjVc

Digital poker just simply isn't very fun at this level of abstraction. Opponents lack any personality making the gameplay a slog through the numbers.

My save always gone, I don't understand.