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Nothing tough here: connect your PDA to your PC, fire up the self-installer, and off you go.
SETUP
PROGRAM FEATURES
Pocket Rockets Pro has three basic modes: Career, Tournament and Multiplayer. Career mode starts you off with $100 and lets you go from there. Hopefully you’ll make it big. But if you end up loosing all $100 real fast don’t worry, there is an out (no, you can’t bet your dad’s car, sorry): simply hit the ‘restart’ button in the upper right at viola! Instant money.
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Tournament mode again starts you off with some base cash: $1000 to be exact. The table starts with $15/$30 tournament rules. As each ten hands goes by, the limits are raised until only one person (or PDA) is left standing.
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Multiplayer Mode allows you and some buddies to hook up via infra-red ports and play against each other. Players can define chipset, starting cash and ending rules…winner buys dinner. But be careful not to break the tenuous IR connection during gameplay or all bets are off.
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The help section of Pocket Rockets Pro is a short 8-page introduction to the game of Texas Hold’Em. This should be all you need to get going.
HELP SUPPORT
Pocket Rockets Pro will run on any Pocket PC and Windows CE system that has enough storage room for the program files. The game runs exclusively in portrait orientation.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
First, feel free to leave your poker face at home (unless of course you’re playing multiplayer); Neither you nor your PDA will have any way of reading the other except for inferences made on betting behavior. This takes some of poker’s challenge out of the game. Also, while Texas Hold’Em has become the poker world’s benchmark, the option of a quick game of 5-card stud would be refreshing. Finally, if multiplayer games could be carried out via Blue Tooth, WiFi or even over the internet, it would be a great improvement over IR.
BUGS AND WISHES
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Pocket Rockets Pro can be purchased from BigSlickSoftware.com’s Website for $9.95.
PURCHASING
PROS
Fun to play
Great Interface
Intelligent poker AI
CONS
Multiplayer connection is touchy
Offers only Texas Hold’Em
Pocket Rockets Pro is a good piece of software; BigSlick set out to make a Texas Hold’Em game for the masses and their product is refined both in interface and in AI programming. They even offer a more advanced title that allows you to analyze your playing history and pick out what, statistically, you do wrong. Of the admittedly few PDA card games I’ve played and could recommend to the public, Pocket Rockets Pro’s Texas Hold’em would get my vo
OVERALL
IMPRESSION
In short, BigSlick’s Pocket Rockets is a solid program as it is. If the programming house goes ahead and adds a few extra features like Blue Tooth & WiFi multiplayer support, everything will come up Aces.
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