THETA Poker - Texas Hold 'Em app for iPhone and iPad
4.3 (
7993 ratings )
Games
Card
Casino
Developer:
Robert Jen
2.99 USD
Current version:
1.9.11, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 26 Sep 2008
App size: 2.59 Mb
"Theta Poker is the best Texas Hold’em game available for the iPhone OS, hands down." -- 148Apps
"This poker program on the iPhone is really good." "Gameplay, two thumbs up!" -- Rob Walch, Today in iPhone Podcast
"[Takes] computerised poker to new levels of artificial intelligence" -- Spanner Spencer, Pocket Gamer UK
*** FOR OLDER DEVICES ONLY!!! ***
THETA Poker Pro is coming soon! THETA Poker will remain available solely to support iOS 3.x and 4.x. Please wait for the new app if you are running iOS 5.x or 6.x. [If you have purchased THETA Poker for a newer device since November 2012, please use the contact link so we can help you.]
Play No-Limit Texas Hold Em and improve your skills against strategies used by the top poker pros, a uniquely efficient betting mechanism, a sharp interface, and lots of configurable options.
Tap the deck to fold. Tap your cards to check or call. Tap your chips then tap to select one of the preconfigured standard bets. If only defeating THETAs computer opponents were this easy. But you can shake off that bad beat by shaking your device to start a new game!
FEATURES:
• Save your eyes with large, readable cards and your choice of playing card designs
• Pick your preferences: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, or Expert AI; landscape or portrait; 2 to 10 players per table; knockout tournament, shootout, or ring game, and much more
• Enjoy your own music and real gaming sounds
• Compete against computer opponents who evaluate hand strength, position, and opponent styles to execute blind steals, slowplays, checkraises, continuation bets, short-stack handling, and bluffs
• View or e-mail your hand history: with optional Rabbit Hunting to show what could have been (you can even see your opponents hole cards in Practice games)
Pros and cons of THETA Poker - Texas Hold 'Em app for iPhone and iPad
THETA Poker - Texas Hold 'Em app good for
No one pays attention to this because of its appearance... Dont judge a book by its cover: this app rules. Some solid AI delivers the best holdem exprience!
With career mode planned in version 2.0, it will be even better.
A must-buy for any holdem player.
The good:
-Awesome AI
-Solid gameplay
-Glossary, etc. nice additions
-Listen to your own tunes
-Saves progress when you close app
-Different difficulties
-Keeps stats
-Customisable
The bad
-Ugly (but dont judge a book by its cover)
-Stock sounds
Buy if you want authentic holdem on iPhone!
Excellent game. I like the customization of the tournaments. Also, the opponents are very good at the expert level. The button could be clearer , but otherwise an excellent tool to hone your game. The iTunes stores is not testing me rate this correctly - I want to give it 5 stars!
Love this app. Lots of fun and very real. Wish the raises werent 5x though. A bit silly when youre deep in the Tourny
I finally found a Holdem app that has artificial intelligence to match my play. I cant win tournaments everytime like other apps. If u want a simulation like live play then buy this app.
This is the best "Hold em" game Ive played on any platform. (Not pretending Ive played them all.) The graphics are simple but clean and there is no attempt to give your opponents a "personality"--no photos, witty comments, etc. which Ive found to be tiresome in other games. If you want to play cards (and improve your play) this is your game.
I really love Apples Hold-Em game; but this one is really so much more enjoyable in the long run. It lets you concentrate more on the game and less on the graphics ... probably because there really arent any fancy ones. I like this a lot. Now, dont get me wrong; the original Hold-Em game is very slick; but I think this is the one Ill be using most of the time.
Some bad moments
On advanced setting, the computer players bluff a lot while overbetting. So taking their money is childs play.
I like to play low stakes online poker. I have little patience and always lose. Yet in this game I am unbeatable.
The AI is a joke. Example; with 4 people left the AI will go all in with a 5h and 8c then catch a set with the 5 on the flop. This happenes ALL this time! The computer gets stupid unrealalistic cards and bets accordingly. If u want to practice against a rigged game this is for you but if you r looking for a real poker game take a pass on this
Not happy!
If Id seen it first, would not have spent the $5.
Hope the 2.0 is better!
After reading the reviews for most of the poker games available here, this one seemed to have the best reviews and was rated pretty well. The other poker games were criticized for the AI being too predictable or unrealistic, so I bought this version.
Although I do enjoy the simplicity of the layout of the game, the AI are absolutely horrendous. You can literally buy the pot every hand and the computer NEVER bluffs. It is so easy to tell what the computers hands are that I was able to win literally every hand that I went in for. If this game had held my attention for more than 5 minutes, I would have been able to easily beat the tourney.
I have been playing Red Dead Redemption for PS3 which has brilliant AIs for the poker game and this game is just a piece of trash comparatively. My faith in iTouch poker is running short.
Dont buy this game unless you are a poker newb who goes all in all of the time or are in middle school.
Calling anything to do with this game AI is a serious overstatement. Predictable betting patterns and poor card distribution make this one of my worst purchases.
