World Series of Poker (Jewel Case)

I should have read the reviews first. It says XP on the amazon site, but it really is a Windows 3.1 program and nothing more.

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Don't buy this or any other Masque product. If I could have given it 0 stars I would have.


BUYER BEWARE !!   March 23, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

When I read the product details and saw that the game was XP compatible, I thought it was a new game. I also noted there are NO other sellers offering this at a discounted price.

When I received the game I immeditately saw 'Windows 95' on the front, so looked at the date on back of case - 1998, ugh.

Folks, I could buy this game at the local store for $5. It's an old game, old graphics, and hokey startup - airplane ride, at the airport, at the hotel check-in.

Sure, all the elements of Texas Hold'em are there, but after three hands you kinda get tired of the smug dealer saying 'last card, and the same comments from other players.

Don't waste your money on this one.


"Bug" alert for Mac users   February 18, 2004
Maureen E Ellis (Burien, WA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Folks, this game is really quite well designed with cute chitchat among the A.I. players, good background sound effects, and reasonable on-screen presentation. It is a great teaching tool for neophyte players. Being a WSP fan, I play mostly the Texas Holdem game, but Blackjack is quite fun also. I have a G3-level iMac with OS 9.1 and 128 mB RAM. The Texas Holdem' game causes total computer freeze on occasion, and consequently, loses memory of whatever gains/loses you have for that particular session.

The crashes are hard to predict based on certain types of hands, eg., a player holding triple 6's may cause crash. Three contending players with 2 prs, a triple, and a higher valued hand resulted in a crash, I had folded in that game, and was watching the 3 A.I. players.

I tried playing a few hands at a 'table', cashing out, then going to a new table. This strategy did not preserve memory of cash totals if the program crashed. What I do now is simply quit the program every few min, then re-activate it. So far, I have been able to stay ahead of potential crashes. Perhaps, the programming maxes out a buffer, whatever, if you play too long in any continuous session.

Otherwise, it is a very fun program, and a good introduction to, especially, Texas Holdem' for poker hopefuls.


Works fine on XP   January 29, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is mostly a technical post. Although the package says Windows 3.1/Windows 95 on it, it will run just fine on Windows XP. I loaded it and have it running, no problem. The graphics are way cheesy, but do take me back to the old days of computer games. The computer AI though seems to be pretty good, at least for Hold 'em. It's way better than some of the newer Hoyle's games where the computer plays like an idiot.