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Stacked with Daniel Negreanu | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy Used: $7.98
You Save: $22.01 (73%)
Used (9) from $7.98
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 22140
Platform: Sony Psp
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Sony PSP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 00007
Model: 7
UPC: 180951000073
EAN: 0180951000073
ASIN: B000BCDF6S
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Exclusively licensed Artificial Intelligence system that adapts to your playing style in real-time, developed from over ten years of university research in game theory, machine learning, and opponent modeling | | • | Daniel Negreanu's Poker School provides the player with expert instruction on all aspects of Hold 'em, through full-motion video, voiceovers, and scripted in-game sequences | | • | Accurately modeled environments and characters based on real casinos and licensed professionals | | • | Professional broadcast design recreates the spectacle and drama of televised poker | | • | Sanctioned online tournaments, league ladders, and in-depth statistical tracking systems will generate limitless hours of competitive excitement in the STACKED League |
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Product Description
Based on the MTV game show, STACKED with Daniel Negreanu is the first video game to bring next-generation gameplay and broadcast quality production to Texas Hold ?em Poker. It's the closest thing to being at a genuine poker table. Get online and it's virtually real. Communicate during online play with text messaging, voice communication, and character mannerisms using contact sensitive action buttons
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| Customer Reviews:
 Real Texas Holdem Poker January 18, 2007
Completely realistic poker. You have to fold a lot of hands to win. Really fun when you can get a full house and stick it to em...
 Definite Disappointment November 2, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This much-anticipated title promised to deliver a genuine casino experience, and promised to make better poker players out of those who played this game, by introducing Daniel Negreanu's coaching and "Poker School," and by pitting the player against the much-touted "Poki" artificial intelligence system.
While I admit that the computer-controlled oppontents of STACKED play a tougher game than in other poker titles I've played (World Series of Poker for PSP, and World Championship Poker for X-Box), everything else about this game seems shoddy and half-baked at its best, and insultingly dumb at its worst.
Here are my observations:
- The interface is clumsy. Important functions, such as looking at your hole cards, are only accessible through an unnecessary slide-out menu. Why the game doesn't simply show you your cards at all times is a mystery to me.
- Information is poorly organized. Your opponents' bets and stack sizes are printed on difficult to read, floating placards that swim around the screen and change text randomly. Stack sizes for opponents who have folded are completely unavailable. Other poker titles have solved this problem very easily, by printing actions and stack sizes around the table, next to each player's name. Why did STACKED decide to do away with this convention?
- The pop-out menu is cluttered with absolutely useless functions: "smile" and "frown." Umm... please don't tell me that these are supposed to simulate "tells" in real poker. That's just insulting. Wake up, folks. This is a COMPUTER GAME. Computer-generated models DON'T HAVE TELLS! Get over it!
- It is difficult to place bets. The "betting stack" that you use to control the size of your bet tends to jump in larger increments, the longer you hold it down, so it's tedious to select an exact amount.
- The amount of your bet is misleading. Other titles make it clear how much money you are putting into the pot from your stack. STACKED, on the other hand, only tells you the amount of your raise (it doesn't include your calling amount), so unless you are paying close attention, you can easilty bet more money than you anticipated.
- The games are mislabeled. In real casinos, "4/8 Limit" Holdem means a $4 big blind (and a $2 small blind), a $4 bet preflop and on the flop, and $8 bet on the turn and river. In STACKED, the bet sizes are doubled, meaning a "4/8" game is ACTUALLY an "8/16" game. It's hard to believe that a game with Daniel Negreanu's name on it can make such an elementary error, but it does.
- The animations are tedious, and they cannot be turned off. That means that even when you've folded a hand, you have to wait for the stupid animations of the dealer and the other players, ON EVERY CARD, before you get to see the next hand. Again, other poker titles have solved this problem by giving us the option to skip the damn animations. It's a shame that STACKED takes us backwards.
- The tournament environments are completely unrealistic. For example, in a single table limit tournament, the blinds increase EVERY ONE TO TWO HANDS. In a real tournament, the blinds will take 25 to 50 TIMES as long to increase. This means that you cannot have any patience at all. You cannot wait for good hands; you are forced almost from the beginning to play like a maniac and hope to get lucky.
So, does STACKED deliver on its promise to make you a better poker player? Here are my observations:
- Negreanu's "Poker School" of videotaped poker lessons are useful for novices, but provide little information of use to even moderately experienced poker players. His advice on reading poker tells is absolutely useless in the context of a computer game, though it might be a little bit useful when you decide to throw away your copy of STACKED and go to a casino instead.
- Negreanu's "Poker Advice," available on every hand (at least on the lower levels), while somewhat helpful in No-Limit hands, is atrocious in Limit games, especially considering the novice-level poker player this game seems aimed towards. His advice has you playing FAR TOO MANY opening hands ("loose," as the poker pros would describe it), and tends to lead the player into dangerous and expensive situations, without explaining how to survive those dangerous situations. If you like losing money, then sure, follow his advice. If you want to win, ignore his advice and buy a good Poker book.
- When asking for Daniel's advice, very little information is given as to WHY he's recommending a particular move. Again, I believe that's because many of his recommendations are BAD ones.
- The computer-controlled AI seems to be better than the average poker title. I say that because I tend to win less often against these players than I do against the AI opponents in other titles. Could this be due to the "Poki" engine? Perhaps.
Final note:
If you're an experienced poker player, you might enjoy this title just for the AI opponents alone. You'll have to put up with a lot of flaws, though, so unless you have a lot of patience, it's probably not worth it.
If you're a novice hoping to improve your game, don't buy this title. It will teach you bad habits that will lose you a lot of money in any real casino, online or otherwise.
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