Wontom Poker Multiplayer Bluetooth Edition for Windows Mobile

5.0 stars

"Blew me away... Bluetooth Multiplayer is really AWESOME!"

May 13, 2006  |   By pdiddyg

Version: Wontom Poker Multiplayer Bluetooth Edition 1

Pros

Install is quick and easy, gameplay was intuitive, multi-player mode across bluetooth with 8 friends is simply AMAZING!

Single-player is pretty difficult. I played 5 times, and came 2nd, 1st, 5th, 8th and 7th! AI players have distinct personalities too, which is nice.

Multiplayer mode blew me away. Never ever played a multi-player game on my i-mate before. Certainly never played a multi-player game across Bluetooth ever. I beamed it to 4 other frieds while we were in this 2 hour boring presentation this morning at work. The 5 of us played head-to-head for 2 hours, one of us was over 20 metres away on the other side of the room.

Games were fast, there was no shuffling of cards, waiting for card dealing, mucking around with chips. We just played fast Texas Holdem Poker and we could still look at each other in the EYE! Was really awesome.

Before this I tried Multiplayer poker across GPRS, but GPRS is expensive and it is real slow compared to this.

Just playing this makes me think of the amazing possibilities of multiplayer gaming with PDAs/Smartphones/PocketPC's across Bluetooth. This is a killer app for PDAs/Smartphones.

Cons

Trial version only allows 15 hands per game before you need to re-start the game. Having said that, I don't always last 15 games anyway! And they can't give it away for free I guess.

Bluetooth Multiplayer mode only allows 8 players in one game. I would prefer 12 players per game, but I guess the screen would get cluttered.

AI needs to have variable difficulty in single-player mode. I've been playing poker for almost 10 years, and I was finding it difficult to beat as the AI begins to learn about my playig style. There needs to be an Easy, Medium, Advanced mode.

You need to have a Bluetooth-enabled PDA/Smartphone/PocketPC to be able to play. Not all of my friends have a WindowsCE based system to be able to play the game. They need to do some kind of deal with Dell or HP for $20 PDA's. At the moment, the cheapest PDAs from Dell and HP still cost $100.

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