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Texas Hold 'Em Stats

I wish I were that good of a Hold ‘Em player, but the truth is that the iPod app’s AI has some serious issues that are too easy to capitalize on. Here are a few of the ones that bother me most.

• Too much pre-flop activity. The AI players bet far too much and far too often pre-flop. This means that if I’m holding pocket aces, I can pretty much slow raise the pot to several thousand dollars before the flop.
• Pushing all in too frequently. Actually, this is a problem in real life tournaments also… but the AI pushing all in pre-flop with 9-10 off suit? Give me a break.
• Poor heads-up performance. The AI is too liberal in their heads up bets. It’s easy to slow play the AI heads up because they push in several thousand dollar pre-flop bets.

Aside from those AI issues, I also hate the way it deals with multi-table tournaments… it is basically “Win a 10 person tournament, then go to another 10 person tournament” instead of the constantly balancing tables in a real tournament.

There are other issues as well, but it’s still a nice, uh, “restroom break” game.