World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer Review [PSP Xbox PlayStation 2 PC]

World Championship Poker 2’s offline play is the best you’ll find amid this year’s competition, and the online play is still pretty engaging.

The Good: Smart artificial intelligence that plays any of the available poker variations quite well; 14 poker variations; fairly realistic character models and reaction animations; upgrade points give some intriguing boosts to your game; online across all platforms.

The Bad: Bluffing minigame is an interesting but flawed concept; commentary and soundtrack aren’t particularly listenable; character-customization feature is weaker than in last year’s game…

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Useful poker information:

FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
RAKE - Money taken from each pot and given to the house in return for hosting the game. Usually a percentage of the pot (5%-10%) up to some maximum amount.
ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.

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