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PLAYING TEXAS HOLD’ EM ON THE IPOD

April 15, 2008

If you want to hone your Texas Hold ‘Em skills, there are many outlets to practice the game. One of them is playing the game on your iPod. The game is available to download onto your iPod and play whenever the mood strikes you.

The game is simple enough, you just try to win tournament and build up your pot so you can enter higher and higher stakes events. The bigger the tournaments, the harder the game becomes.

The controls of game are pretty simple. You choose to check, bet or fold. The game pits you against computer players. You win the game on the iPod if you go through and the rest of the players have folded or the final card is dealt on the flop.

You need to be careful however with the control of the game. If you want to speed things up, especially when the computer is playing, you can use the select button. But press it too many times and you will make the wrong input for yourself. Unfortunately, there is no undo command, so you’re stuck with your move.

The game is unrealistic in another part, too, in that you are only playing against a maximum of six players. In real life games, you are usually playing against eight or 10, which changes the strategy.

Of course, your ability to practice real strategy is always going to be a little off when you are playing on the iPod, because you are going up against a computer’s decision making. That means you won’t get the same reaction to bluffing or betting that you would get from an actually opponent. You will be able to go through the game and take advantage of that weakness.

And if you are new to playing the game and trying to learn the rules, there really is no tutorial. You can’t ask the game if you are doing the right thing or if you are using the right strategy.

All in all, playing Texas Hold ‘Em, let alone trying to learn the game, isn’t much of a success. In many ways, the game isn’t much better than one of those electronic handheld games that are sold for a few bucks.

If you are looking for a computer-based way to play Texas Hold ‘Em, it’s better to try one of the many online web sites where you can actually interact with players who are making real-time decisions. That will be a real challenge to how you learn the game.