Each tournament or open game requires a buy-in, and these are tiered as you move from the likes of the Queen’s Cup with a 1K entrance fee through to the Master Table with a 1 million stake. Though you could argue that this shatters the illusion of realism, it does mean that you focus on the actual game rather than spending time shaking your head at how unrealistic the characters would have been with an indie studio’s relatively low budget.Īnd, for the most part, VooFoo has handled the poker side of things really well by offering players a plethora of tournaments to enter in both online and offline modes. These tablets are dotted around the table in each player’s position and act as information boards in each game, allowing players to freely move the camera around the table, zoom in and check on statistics, such as who raised and how many chips an opponent has left. In poker games in the past, we’ve often seen awful characters modelled on stereotypical poker players sitting around the table, but we’re personally glad to see that Pure Hold’em ditches them entirely in favour of iPad-style tablets.

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