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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Poker lexicon:
- BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- OPENER - The player who opens the betting, especially in draw poker. A hand may have no openers, in which case it is PASSED OUT, i.e., new hands are dealt.
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
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