This game is an affront to poker. It's one thing to find a mediocre Texas Holdem mini game within an open world game, there you will expect to see a game of this caliber. But when the whole focus is to create a Holdem simulator, those same minor faults become less forgivable. There is zero reason to want to play this game, you don't earn anything other than in game money that allows to to buy into bigger games, to play the same exact boring poker, literally the only thing that changes is the number of zeros and commas in the buy in. Every last gen poker game was far and away more entertaining than this. Even if it were free to play, I couldn't find myself enjoying it.
Do yourself a favor, if you want to play Holdem, buy Red Dead Redemption and just play the Holdem game in that, it's light years ahead of this.
Oh, and I play live poker quite a bit, and maybe this is a translation thing, but I have never EVER heard of a "shared win", chop pot, or split pot, but never shared win...
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Re: Review: Pure Hold'em (PS4)
This game is an affront to poker. It's one thing to find a mediocre Texas Holdem mini game within an open world game, there you will expect to see a game of this caliber. But when the whole focus is to create a Holdem simulator, those same minor faults become less forgivable. There is zero reason to want to play this game, you don't earn anything other than in game money that allows to to buy into bigger games, to play the same exact boring poker, literally the only thing that changes is the number of zeros and commas in the buy in. Every last gen poker game was far and away more entertaining than this. Even if it were free to play, I couldn't find myself enjoying it.
Do yourself a favor, if you want to play Holdem, buy Red Dead Redemption and just play the Holdem game in that, it's light years ahead of this.
Oh, and I play live poker quite a bit, and maybe this is a translation thing, but I have never EVER heard of a "shared win", chop pot, or split pot, but never shared win...