Governor Of Poker - Featured Game Review

Governor of Poker is different to every other poker game you’ve played. Rather than simply sitting at a table to play poker, your aim is to build up your reputation and wealth by playing multiple tournaments and cash games.

You begin the game in a small Texas town, with just your own home and a few hundred dollars.  At first all you can do is play tournament poker, where you buy-in and win money for 1st, 2nd or 3rd place.  As you win tournaments you increase your wealth and can start buying houses.  Your reputation will also increase, and then you start getting invited to private cash games in other people’s houses.  In these games the stakes are high, and you can wager any houses you own, in addition to the cash on the table.

Buy all the houses in the town and you can wager on a horse to move to the next town along and continue to increase your fortune!

The “career” style gameplay makes for a more in-depth game than most of the other free offerings on the Internet.  The graphics, audio and interface are superb, and even without the career style gameplay Governor of Poker would still be great, even just as a plain poker game.

Texas Hold’em

As you might expect, the poker played in GOP is Texas Hold’em.  Up to 8 players sit around the table, with a dealer.  The players are all animated, and the in-game voices are very professionally done.  In fact, it’s one of the only poker games I’ve played where I didn’t mute the audio instantly, but if you choose to there are a host of options available from the menus.  The game auto-saves when you quit, which is a nice touch allowing you to come back and pick up where you left off.  There are some other nice features which make a big difference to gameplay, such as being able to skip hands where you fold, and go right to the showdown, which keeps the game moving at a nice pace.

All in all, Governor of Poker is by far the best Flash poker game on the Internet, and one of the best player vs computer card games I’ve ever played, hands down.  Whether you’re a card shark, or a newbie to the world of poker you’ll find this game to be a lot of fun, which is why it’s the Kwikgames featured game of the week!  [play game]