Texas Hold’em 17+

I can’t believe it’s back! This is my favourite poker game ever. I’ve tried a few poker games since but have always missed this one! I used to play this on my ipod nearly 10 years ago! Was just having a coffee and randomly thought i’d search the app store to try and find a decent poker game and found this!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍 can’t believe it! I would happily pay for this game!

BUG FIX NEEDED.
Before I get into my review, if you’re a VoiceOver user there is a small bug that if you choose fold at the end of a round it’ll crash the app, for some reason the option for fold is still available even at the end of a round.

Review:
A fantastic, little addictive, great little time waster when you got a spare few minutes you can knock out a few rounds and over time you’ll amass a fortune - if you’re lucky.

I love how Apple have designed this app in such a way that you can use it with VoiceOver without making a special navigation method just for screen reader users which is my biggest complaint about “blind games” which don’t close the gap between sighted and blind players, this app does exactly what’s needed, and I’m very curious in the technologies used to make it accessible if Apple would be willing to reply and let me know - I’d love to spend some time in Xcode and learn how to make something myself.

Great set of locations each with their own visuals and sound, all the AI players have their own little quirks and I’ve still not figured any one of them out yet, sometimes the rolls are a little crazy, but you are against AI instead of real players.

Would love a Game Center multiplayer mode.

Looks fantastic on the iPhone XS MAx and it’s certainly going to to stay installed on my phone. Thanks a massive bunch for a great litle game.

- No ads, decent UI/UX, ai which isn’t braindead but isn’t impossible to beat. Good overall.

- UI issues:
- Double tap the table to check: when skipping animations, or trying to read the size of the pot, I have fumbled check more than once. This can be fixed by adding a toggle to this control.
- When betting, it’s very difficult to click the pot (to read it) without closing the betting menu. (has led to the above sometimes)

Other issues:
- The bots aren’t that great? Either I’m a genius, and have a 33% first place rate in a tournament of 18 or 27 only a month after starting to play poker, or very lucky; or the bots are not GTO, are hardcoded, and are very exploitable. My ego isn’t big enough to bet on the first hypothesis.
- the game had two (not one, two) royal flushes within about 200 hands. I estimated the chance of this for a random set of hands to be 10^-11. Is the game rigged? Is the deck “badly shuffled”? Bayesian probability strongly indicates so; or is it the human bias towards noticing low entropy? I can’t answer for certain.

Overall, I’m having a lot of fun playing so far. Thanks for updating this great app :)