About a month ago I exercised my “new every two” option and picked up a brand new LG VX8700 phone from Verizon. As customer service rep transferred my contacts from the old handset to the shiny new VX8700 I found out that downloaded applications do not get transferred and you have to Buy/Download them again. Not that I had too many of those, but there was one which I used to use a lot - Downtown Texas Hold’em. It was a challenging application until I discovered a huge weakness in the bot’s (robot’s) algorithm - once a bot makes a call, it gets pot-committed. You can immediately re-raise (even go all-in) and no matter how bad the bots cards are, it will make the call. So, once I figured it out, the entire game went down to exploiting that weakness.

This time I decided to get VZW Texas Hold’em instead (VZW Exclusive Texas Hold’em). The first thing I did was I switched Front view to Top (Front was just too annoying with constant scrolling thru all the players), then I switched the rest of the options to Off and entered a championship. I must admit, the logic/algorithm of the VZW Texas Hold’em is far more superior to Downtown’s. Bots are constantly “shifting gears” (or at least it feels that way) - some are playing pretty tight, while others are constantly bluffing. I’ve been playing for two weeks now, and so far - the game keeps me on my toes :) Overall, application’s user interface is very nice. I also like the fact that you can speed up the game significantly by constantly pressing “Skip” button (especially if/when you’ve folded). So, the bottom line - I definitely recommend this game to any Texas Hold’em fan :-)

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