Fun game once you get past the first few cities.

I made it through all the cities and beat the governor. It took awhile, but was worth it, as winning the cities and challenges made it an interesting game and challenging game. I have to say that there is a bit of a pattern and it rewards aggressive play. SPOILER: You can beat a lot of the challenges by going all in frequently and at the first bet. If your challenger meets or exceeds your bet more than twice (at the turn and river), you can be pretty sure they have a better hand. SPOILER: An Ace with a low card rarely if ever is a good hand. A high card with a middle card (like Queen and 7) or a pair of 5s, for example, is often a really good hand. If you play enough, you’ll start picking out patterns like low straights happen often. Play too aggressively, and on most every hand, you’ll lose consistently.

The first few cities are pretty tough, but once you get going it plays well. You may have to start fresh over a couple times before you accumulate enough money to keep going to finish the game.

As far as the ‘wrong’ hands winning, I had no such problem. There is a box next to the dealer that you can click and it will show you the winning hand and why it is the winning hand. The game takes all the highest cards so that may include all the cards on the table plus your card (versus just using your cards and adding from whats on the table to it - hope that made sense). Again, click on the box next to the dealer and it will show you how it made the winning hand and who had it.

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