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The Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament was a series of no limit Texas hold 'em poker tournaments. The first season is available on NTSC DVD. It airs on Fox Sports Net in the United States, Rogers Sportsnet in Canada and Ftn in the United Kingdom.
The first series grand finale aired in February 2005 on the same day as Super Bowl XXXIX. Fox carried the Super Bowl that year, so instead of the series' usual home on FSN, NBC carried the finale instead. It was hosted by Matt Vasgersian, with support from poker professional Erick Lindgren. Backstage interviews were conducted by poker player Evelyn Ng.
You've been invited back for Season 2! Poker Superstars II raises the stakes with more superstars, a bigger tournament and a brand new poker AI. Import your own photo into the game and become a Poker Superstar. Then get ready to battle through an exciting new tournament structure against 15 of poker's top players powered by a 'first of its kind' artificial intelligence system that has learned to win by playing millions of simulated tournaments! The Superstars are ready to win, are you?
For in-depth Texas Hold 'em action there are not many games better than Poker Superstars III. You will be able to face off against some of pokers biggest superstars in tournament style play or single games. You can try beating all the challenges or earning all the awards for certain hands or eliminating players. With four modes of play and a variety of players to compete against you will get all the Texas Hold 'em action you can handle.
Being able to play against the poker superstars like Todd Brunson and Jennifer Tilly makes this a unique game. The computer will play based on the represented individual's style of play. An example would be an aggressive player that raises constantly or a bluffer who is good at making you think they have a hand they don't. If you are a poker fanatic this is a great way to improve your skills.
The graphics are fairly standard for a poker style game. The games are played on a table and a picture representing the other players is placed next to their cards. There is no animation other than cards dealing. If you are looking for a game that has a lot of animation for your opponents, this game might not be for you. If you just like to play poker then this game brings you straight poker action without all the frills. Sound is also fairly limited: a dealer will announce, when you bet chips will make noise and the cards make noise when they are dealt. The sound and graphics don't do anything to add to the game, but they do a great job of making a pure poker game.
There is only one factor that limits this game: only offering Texas Hold 'em can become boring. The game has several ways to play, but you can still only play the one game. The addition of some extra forms of poker really would have made this a great game.
If playing against some of the legends of poker is a dream of yours then it doesn't get much closer than this without sitting at a table with them. Several different modes of Texas Hold 'em give the game some variety that it lacks in different poker games. The simplistic style does a good job of bringing you a poker game without all the frills of other games. With variable difficulty poker players of any age and skill level can play this great game.
This is one of the factors that makes Poker Superstars II so easy to recommend to the novice. In addition to plenty of explanation of the rules, and even occasional strategy tips, the game can really help to improve your game of poker.
Poker Superstars is yet another failure in a long line of licensed poker game failures. This one is based on Fox Sports' Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament, which you've probably seen an awful lot of on TV lately. Unsurprisingly, publisher Funkitron has trotted out a number of pro poker players to endorse the product and appear on the box and in the game, though the actual extent of their in-game involvement was to let the developer put static images of them into the interface as opponents, and nothing else. Also perhaps unsurprisingly, the game features a bargain-basement design and interface that seems like it could have easily been downloaded in a hundred-megabyte client from just about anywhere...and for free at that. However, there's one absolutely shocking thing about Poker Superstars, and it's one that also makes this the most tragic poker game to date. Namely, it's the first in a long line of budget-priced poker games to actually get opponent artificial intelligence right. When you play against any of Poker Superstars' computer-controlled opponents, you feel like you're playing against someone who actually knows what the hell he or she is doing. If that isn't a feat in and of itself in this day of slapdash, stump-dumb poker games, then nothing is. It's just too bad this solid gameplay engine is wrapped in such a shallow, ugly package.
Let's start with the good that Poker Superstars has to offer, which begins and ends with the gameplay. The developer behind this game has finally managed to create an AI engine that makes some kind of sense, without being overly predictable. AI opponents will slow-play hands, bully you with large chip stacks, back off if they get the impressions that their hands aren't worth the bet, and even throw in some bona fide bluffs from time to time. You can't call the AI overly challenging either, but overall, the competition is thoroughly decent. However, as a pure learning tool, Poker Superstars probably isn't your best bet, if only because the rigidity of the AI is such that you don't really get a sense of the unpredictability that makes poker such a great game. Sure, there's a degree of randomness to it, but it almost feels algorithmic in nature rather than genuinely random. Still, it's fun AI to play against, just perhaps not the most educationally beneficial AI to play against.
Though the game features eight real-life names from the poker world, including Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein, TJ Cloutier, Gus Hansen, Howard Lederer, Chip Reese, and Johnny Chan, none of the opponents really seem to play much differently from one another. Maybe you'll notice some subtle differences in betting philosophy, but it's so subtle that you probably won't. Then again, considering none of the opponent characters animate, emote, or, really, do much of anything, it might have been too hard to really get too deeply into the nuances of each player's style, since you wouldn't be able to get any kind of reads off of them whatsoever. The engine is certainly great, but the one supremely obnoxious thing that Poker Superstars' gameplay interface does--and subsequently is dragged down because of--is show you the winning hand, no matter what, every single time. If a guy goes all in on the flop and nobody bets against him, the game still tells you what he has, which is a big no-no in the real poker world. Maybe this was done for instructional purposes, or maybe just to keep people from throwing away fortunes just to know whether their opponents had top pair. However, it isn't realistic.
Apart from the season mode, there's a cash-game option with bet limits, a single-round mode where, you guessed it, you play a single round, and that's the full extent of the package. There's no multiplayer feature, online or otherwise, and there isn't even an opportunity to play any other kinds of poker other than Texas hold 'em. For as good as the gameplay engine is, it isn't enough by itself to sustain you beyond a few plays through the season mode. Ultimately, the game just becomes tediously dull.
What inevitably ends up bringing down Poker Superstars is the same thing that's brought down most every PC poker game released to date. Better options exist for free on the Internet, thus making a $20 product like Poker Superstars completely irrelevant. Yes, the fact that the game's artificially intelligent players actually play like real opponents would is a welcome change of pace. But why would you need to pay for fake players that play like real players when you can just go find real players for free online just about any time you like? Hopefully, you wouldn't. And you won't in the case of Poker Superstars.
In the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament 1, there were only eight players invited to play. Along with Johnny Chan, the other legendary poker players that were invited to compete included, Doyle Brunson, T. J. Cloutier, Barry Greenstein, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Howard Ledderer, and David "Chip" Reese. Each of these players paid $400,000 to enter into the tournament. The grand final winner would walk away with $1 million in prize money just for that game alone. Johnny Chan, placed second in this tournament, losing to Gus Hansen in February 2005.
The Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament 3 took place in February 2007. This year each poker player that entered paid $50,000 to play. The players included Johnny Chan, Todd Brunson, Freddy Deeb, Eli Elzera, Antonio Esfandiari, Chris Fergusson, Ted Forrest, Barry Greenstein, Joe Hachem, Gus Hansen, Jennifer Harman, Phil Helmuth Jr., Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow, Chris Moneymaker, Carlos Mortensen, Danielle Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Mike Sexton, Jeff Shulman, Jennifer Tilly, Mimi Tran, and Cyndy Violette. Johnny once again made it to the semi finals, where he was defeated by Todd Brunson who that year won the grand finals.
"Superstars of Poker" charts Jennifer Harman's rise as an iconic figure in the male-dominated world of poker through grit, skill, and unwavering determination. Read on to find out how Jackie Alyson pulls that off...
You've been invited back for Season 2! Poker Superstars II raises the stakes with more superstars, a bigger tournament and a brand new poker AI. Import your own photo into the game and become a Poker Superstar.
Take on the masters of the game in this high quality No Limit Texas Hold Em game based on the Poker Superstars Invitation Tournament TV Show. Helpful tips for beginners, challenging computer opponents for experts, and great fun for everyone! Play against Doyle Brunson, Howard Lederer, Johnny Chan, Gus Hansen, TJ Cloutier, Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein and Chip Reese! Can you go up against these 8 poker champions and beat them at their own game?
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