Texas Hold 'Em released on Xbox Live

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Texas Hold 'Em has just been released on Xbox Live Arcade and is available to download for free over the next 48 hours. After this, the game will cost 800 points, so make sure you get online in the next couple of days.

The game includes unlockable achievements as well as single player and online multiplayer modes. Those wishing to gamble with real Gamerscore points are out of luck, although the game does use a persistent bank roll system, which keeps things interesting.

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17 Comments

Dave_L

5 years ago

Cool! I'll have to remember to grab this tonight at home - don't wanna miss out. Thanks for the heads up.

wobbler

5 years ago

If only it has a Kenny Rogers sound track.

Zarnoss

5 years ago

So lets get this right....
It's free...but only in the next 2 days.
So my downloaded version will work forever because I downloaded it in those 2 days.
OR
Is it after those two days i'm gonna have to "unlock" it.
Man if it's free totally in those two days and unlocked forever...wow! awesome stuff!!
(well i'll find out soon enough)

Chris-Leigh

5 years ago

The first one, Xcs:sIVE - you get it forever.

I think it's up to eight-player as well, so anyone here up for a PALGN get-together?

(Incidentally, how good would this be with camera functionality? You could watch your opponents for bluffing

)

Zarnoss

5 years ago

Awesome!! to the MAXXX!!11!!

Ta dude!

Had a couple of goes earlier and liked it heaps, people were chatting and cracking jokes...stuff that makes these types of games work.
I could imagine all the mums n dads pushing their kids off the 360 now to play this.

We should have a PALGN high roller club tournament

That would rock.
And everyone on here with a 360 can play!

Chris-Leigh

5 years ago

Xcs:sIVE wrote

We should have a PALGN high roller club tournament

That would rock.
And everyone on here with a 360 can play!

Me and you in so far then, chap - perhaps I'll take this to the Gaming Board, though. Dave and Luke and anyone else who's downloaded it: you should get on there as well.

ugh the boot

5 years ago

I'm gonna download it just because it's free. Is it some sort of card game? I just don't really play games where I can do said activity fairly easily in real life (driving, sports, cards etc).

Deus Sceleris

5 years ago

Texas Hol'em M*** F***

Only checked out the single player, the AIs are pretty easy, but they gave me the absolute sh***s sometimes. Everyone would fold if i had an Ace/King hand, like they could see it... They also back the hell down everytime you bet high.

I wouldn't pay 800 points for it though, just like i wouldn't've paid 1200 for billiards, even if the graphics and features are better than Uno...

Tristan

5 years ago

Wow cards. Yay..... Not! Are they in HD?

Should be free forever.

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

I'd rather buy a deck of cards get a bunch of mates over and spend a night drinking beer and having a laugh. But then again, this is what the next generation is all about apparantly, selling incredibly simplistic games every week while offering an actual "next-gen" title once every few months.

Yay for progress.

ugh the boot

5 years ago

^ Yay!

Next-Gen = Retro Relived!

I'm not interested in this Xbox Arcade crap either!

Chris-Leigh

5 years ago

ugh the boot wrote

I'm not interested in this Xbox Arcade crap either!

I've been pretty disappointed with most XBLA titles, but I've honestly played Geometry Wars twice as much as my 'real' games combined.

Dave_L

5 years ago

I was lying in bed last night and thought - 'Crap! Forgot to get Texas Hold 'Em!!'
I made sure i grabbed it this morning before work though.

wobbler

5 years ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

I'd rather buy a deck of cards get a bunch of mates over and spend a night drinking beer and having a laugh.

So would I but if anyone is into poker this free game will allow them to play people all around the world at any time of the day. Its a sad day when we start to complain about free stuff.

ugh the boot

5 years ago

Chris-Leigh wrote

ugh the boot wrote

I'm not interested in this Xbox Arcade crap either!

I've been pretty disappointed with most XBLA titles, but I've honestly played Geometry Wars twice as much as my 'real' games combined.

That is an awesome game along with Mutant Storm Reloaded.

I just wish they had some better games.....how about Wonderboy II: In Monster Land? Smash T.V and Street Fighter are ok....but I wish they would offer up some more story based stuff instead of the quick romps/arcadey stuff.

Any of the capcom stuff would be excellent but obviously they're restricted to capcom's own collections.

Atleast they're bringing out Symphony of the Night and Ultimate Mortal Kombat.

Zarnoss

5 years ago

I would sell my favourite grandmother for a version of Wonderboy in monsterland on the 360 arcade.

And I hope that midnight resistance gets an Xbox arcade release,that'd work real well with the dual analogue sticks and triggers and rocks 2 player.

Also I love the Texas hold 'em poker.
It's all about the ballsy moves and cyber bluffing.
The cyber bluffing is actually the best part,you hear people "faking" excitement and then saying"Oh, my mics still on , whoops"...yeah right

Love winning huge hands on the cyber bluff.
I won a $2000+ pot with an Ace high because of the power of the bluff.
hehehehe

Heard alot of classic one liners like ,"Anybody want to buy a slightly bashed Xbox 360?"
or
People that think they have an awesome hand and go all in trying to bully the lower cashed players, bragging all the way, then get trounced by a 4 of a kind and heckled as they leave the table because they lost all their money.

Free just sweetens the deal.
Had one network crash though but i hear that is pretty rare.

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

wobbler wrote

Sin Ogaris wrote

I'd rather buy a deck of cards get a bunch of mates over and spend a night drinking beer and having a laugh.

So would I but if anyone is into poker this free game will allow them to play people all around the world at any time of the day. Its a sad day when we start to complain about free stuff.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=free+online+poker&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

They're not hard to find. Plus most of these aren't free for only two days.

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