This way little money is risked, but the pace of the game keeps up for everyone else at the table. As you are, in essence, playing with real money, if you don't make a move then you'll automatically fold. You have a time limit on your moves, signified by a shrinking time bar. Ultimately, the goal is to clear out your opponents and you'll start winning chips that you can keep and add to your bank total, to buy into bigger games for more rewards. There's little hand holding, but I think it's a fair assumption that users will know what check and fold mean, how the betting works, and how the various permutations of the betting rounds and cards being dealt interact with each other. Controls are icon-based, with clear graphics showing the fold, check, raise, match bet and raise at the bottom of the screen. Once you select a table and 'buy in' for a set amount of chips, you'll be taken to a table with a number of other opponents, and you can start playing poker. To be honest, you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference with the small number of options available to the players - but you do notice it in the chat window if anyone decides to talk to the other players at the table. Because you're playing against human opponents around the world, this feels like a far more realistic AI. Which I suspect is where the developers are going to make their money, as this java-based client is a free download.

$7 will give you 150,000 chips in the game, and their are other multiples to get you buying in bulk. Or you can simply buy the chips, with some real money. Once these hit zero, what next? Well, there are various free chip offers, such as following the developers on Twitter (click on the banner in the game, and you'll get taken to the browser to sign in and follow them). For everyone else, it puts an immediate time limit on the game. If you're a good poker player, this pile of chips is going to rise as you play. You need to create this account as you'll start with a small amount of poker chips and these are tracked over multiple game sessions. As you first run the program you'll set up a profile for yourself, a username, password and email address on a single screen. there is someone else online, looking for a Poker game. Okay, it's poker on your smartphone, but the interesting bit is that this is 'Live' and against not an AI, i.e.

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