Are you right to think‘OMG, the way that character played that hand was so sophisticated’? Or, perhaps more appropriately, was it just some straightforward algorithmic AI tomfoolery, and because the game is layered and realistic in other areas you convinced yourself a standard AI move was something it wasn’t? The tricky part is, however good a job Rockstar has done of crafting this immersive game of virtual poker, these are not real humans you’re playing against.Īs with lots of elements of an intelligent, deep game like Red Dead Redemption 2, sometimes you risk tricking yourself into thinking it’s a smarter game than it really is. OK, soooooo… how do you win? That’s both tricky and pretty simple.
Go learn the rules – we’ll wait.ĭone? Good. If you don’t know how to play poker… well, you have the internet at your disposal. It follows a pretty standard Texas Hold-’em format. Poker can be played at camp or in Valentine, Tumbleweed, Blackwater or Flat neck Station. Where you stand depends either on how far you like to push an open world in a game or how tense or mellow you like your poker. The counter-argument, of course, is that the chance to win big early on or lose everything in the later stages could really mess up how the game unfolds. It’s been argued that higher stakes would make for a more tense and interesting game. In the early game, the buy-in is $2.00 and the bigger pots run up to about 40 cents. One thing that’s a little contentious is the stakes.
