Full House Poker
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Full House Poker is a video game  poker
Poker
Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

 variant Texas hold 'em
Texas hold 'em
Texas Hold 'em is a variation of the standard card game of poker. The game consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then five community cards being placed face-up by the dealer—a series of three then two additional single cards , with...

 developed and published by Microsoft Games Studios and was released for Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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 as an Xbox Live Arcade
Xbox Live Arcade
Xbox Live Arcade is a type of video game download distribution available primarily in a section of the Xbox Live Marketplace, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360, that focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent game developers...

 title and Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7
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 on March 16, 2011. The game is the spiritual successor to 1 vs. 100
1 vs. 100 (Xbox 360)
1 vs. 100 was a massively multiplayer online Xbox Live adaptation of the trivia game show of the same name.-Summary:There were two versions of the game, referred to as 1 vs. 100 Live and 1 vs. 100 Extended Play...

and features scheduled tournaments known as Texas Heat. Full House Poker also offers TV-style live poker events with season-long tournaments and more traditional Texas Hold Em' matchups with up to 30 human or computer controlled players.

Reception

Early reviews of the game were positive. TeamXbox gave the game a 7.7/10. Alex Keen of Crave Online praised the Avatar integration, but noted the lack of voice commentary and experienced a frozen table during a Texas Heat tournament. IGN
IGN
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gave the game an 8/10, praising the game's online mode, while comparing Texas Heat mode to 1 vs 100.
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