Idea Info Name: Rounding to the Top Index: Primary Category: Sport Submitted: 2/22/2004 2:05:13 AM Written By: aces up

Rounding to the Top

By: Aces Up

Intro:

            As you probably know, poker is at its peak of its popularity, more and more people learn the game every day, and are instantly hooked on it.  Young, middle-aged, and old a like, poker is a very popular game.  Especially the poker games of 7 card stud, Omaha, and everyone’s favorite, Texas Hold ’em.

              In this game you are a young hustler looking to make it big in the poker world.  You have the skills, only problem is that you don’t have the bank roll yet.  It's time to start earning; it's time to become a rounder.

Summary:

The basis of the game is that you are a young poker player, living in the slums of Atlantic City, New Jersey, who has the skills to compete with the best, but doesn’t have the bank roll to do so yet. 

            You go from a zero to legend while winning in house games, local tournaments, and if you have enough money for the entry fees, you can play in calendar World Poker Tour tournaments.

            Manage your bankroll, get sponsorships, and go all the way to the World Series of Poker.

            While you compete in these events you will be put against poker legends like Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, and much more.

Features:

·        The game will feature a, create your own player that rivals the quality and attention to detail that Tiger Woods Golf 2004 had in it.  Because facial features and other body language plays a role in this game.

·        Manage your money as you register yourself to compete in major tournament events.

·        Try and read other players, as body language gives away tells, but every one is different.

·        Also compete online with friends and strangers in daily tournaments, and see if you can have a bigger bankroll than everyone else, as you try to take control of the number 1 rank spot.

Game play:

            You will be playing the computer who has a sophisticated a.i., if possible … That bluffs you and pushes you into tough decision, because it knows your hand and tries make you lay down the winning hand by bluffing, calls when you bet the right amount, it too lays down the winning hand when you bluff the right amount. While challenging you, “Rounding to the Top” makes you a better card player as well as it teaches you how to play the cards right. 

            Of course there will be different levels of difficulty, and like most games the further you get into this game the tougher the decisions you have to make.

            One interesting part of the game that I think is the part, which I want to be known as the stare down.  This is when the computer makes a big bet, and after the bet there is a sequence where the player looks at the computer’s character to see if he or she is giving off any tells.  Most of the character’s have tells, some of the same tells might mean different things for different players, the further in the game you go the trickier the player becomes in giving his or her tell away.  Tells can include; rapid blinking, heavy breathing, not moving, light breathing, no eye contact, fidgeting, talking, staring at the board, the way a player smokes his cigar or cigarette, looking at his cards, and all of these tells can go either way it just depends on the computer’s character.

            I love playing poker, and all of my friends do to, if there were a game out there like this I know that it would sell just as well as any other game, and if you guys don’t like my idea I hope a game is made like this just the same.  I really just want to play it.  The more I wrote the more excited I got about playing it.  I value your honest opinion and I thank you for taking a look at my idea.

-Mike