World Series of Poker: Full House Pro

I love sitting down for a good old fashioned game of poker. There's a lot of strategy involved, and turning over a better hand than your adversary feels so good it should be illegal. So obviously, Game companies see gold when they think of creating a poker game for people to play on their Xbox 360.

Full House Pro puts you in the shoes of a poker star at the WSOP, hoping to score a big payday on a few good hands. There are hundreds others, some of which just enjoy playing the game, but others are sharks who want to be the biggest fish in the pond. Will you be the great white that annihilates the competition or will you be lucky to leave the tournament with cab fare?

(Review Updated on December 18th, 2014)

Unfortunately, it has been announced that the servers for this game will be (Or have already been, depending on when you're reading this) shut down on March 4th, 2015. Because of this, the game has gone down in rating from 6 out of 10 to 1 out of 10.

Why?

I have been reading comments left by the game's loyal players on the game's website and pretty much every single one of them is not happy, as they have spent money on in-game gold and chips (Including me, but i haven't spent more than what some people have admitted to have spent) And now with the servers going down, some people have even suggested filing suits to get their money back, some people even admitting to have spent 400$ and more.

The game's flow has not gotten better, it has actually gotten much worse (I played the game for the first time a few moments ago, and the game is very skippy and laggy) so obviously, Micosoft games hasn't even tried to fix it.

The game is off the marketplace now, so there's no way anyone else can download it and play it, and the gold purchasing feature is gone too, so that's the end of that.

So to sum this one up, this poker game was basically like every other, except every other one was better. That's really all I have to say.

1/10

Wow. Just thinking about this game has unlocked a long forgotten memory of me binge playing this in a weekend because the servers were getting shut down.

When I checked this game out, it was back in 2014. During this time, I played my Xbox 360 quite often, but wasn't really into card games or anything like it. The only reason I remember actually downloading this game and playing it a bunch is because I seen something on my dashboard stating the game was going offline soon. I decided to check it out, figuring I would probably hate it, but surprisingly, I kinda dug it. Playing online against people was neat, although at this point in my life, I had no idea how to play poker. Finally getting the feel of things, I started doing well, but in the end, it was just a poker game that you played using you Xbox 360 avatar. Fun in the moment, but eventually lost steam, and by time the game went offline, I already forgot about it.