Rating: :: RECOMMENDED
Apple's Texas Hold'em Poker game is the best mobile poker game ever but suffers from amateur AI.

If you are looking to play Texas holdem poker anytime and anywhere, then here’s the app for you. This poker app can be played offline to meet your Texas holdem needs. There are various levels of play to encourage beginners and aid in their development. The computer opponents are intriguing with stunning high definition graphics. The App Store opened for business 11 years ago this week and to mark the anniversary of its app marketplace, Apple is reviving its old iOS poker game. The redesigned Texas Hold 'em app has a new. Apple’s only official iOS game, titled simply “Texas Hold’em,” was recently removed from the Apple OS store. Debuting in the App Store in 2008, the play-money poker game that pitted you against simple AI opponents was advanced for its time and fueled speculation that Apple was looking to dominate the mobile gaming space.

Apple’s Texas Hold’em is back! To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the App Store, we’ve brought back one of its first games, a popular classic. Originally created for iPod, then brought to iPhone, fans will love the polished redesign, featuring new characters, more challenging gameplay, and stunning graphics for the newest iPhone and iPod touch. In a surprise move tied to the App Store's 10th anniversary last year, Apple has revived its classic 'Texas Hold'Em' game for iPhone. As noted by 9to5Mac, version 2.0 of the game was released on.

Developer: AppleArcade

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Price: $4.99
Date Listed in App Store: 7/6/2008
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Version Reviewed: 1.0

Texas Hold'em was released by Apple at the launch of the App Store. That got some developers that were in the process of developing their own Texas Hold'em poker games a little upset. It's not surprising that Apple released this, a nearly identical version has been available for the iPod for a while now. But it is interesting that it was one of the two iPhone OS applications that Apple had available at launch.

I'm no Hold'em expert, but the ability of the players in this game doesn't seem to be the best. The problem I've found is that they seem to rely too much on the community cards -- the AI seems to ignore that all players have those cards. So, I'll see an opponent go all in with a pair of Kings in the community cards while holding a 3-8 off suit in their hand. Don't get me wrong, this just helps my winning percentage. n00bs!

The game can be played in either portrait or landscape mode -- landscape mode is the best by far. The portrait mode includes way too much animation and slows the game down. Your mother may like that mode.

Even with the bad AI, this is the best mobile poker game ever, I think. It improves on the iPod version as the touch controls (flick to fold, drag your chips in the pot to go all-in, double tap to check, etc.) make it easier and more intuitive to use.

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Can't give it 4 becuase the AI just isn't there. Still, until a better games comes along, it's an easy win for $5.

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