Get some Texas Hold’em for free right now
First it was going to be released for free half a year ago. Then it was delayed for ages, spawning thousands of frustrated comments on every Xbox website in the world. Then it was rumored that it wouldn’t be free at all. But right now, after a minor gap of a week, the Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays continue as Texas Hold’em hits the Arcade, 48 hours for free as promised.
If you pop onto Marketplace right now all Silver and Gold members of the Xbox Live service will find the long awaited game in their downloads list, offering only one download option: the free one that’ll be lasting about 47 hours still as I write this article. A mere 26.39MB of downloading later, the game is yours for eternity. Enjoy the game, and feel free to spam the comments below with “Ah, there is the free Texas Hold’em” for a refreshing change!
Playing it now, but everyone is going all in at the moment
Get used to it.
We’re organising an Xboxic private tournament for 9pm CET tonight if you fancy a fun, sensible game
so how we doing it stud?
we all just gonna be online at 8.50? and you’re gonna round us up?
That’s the idea - once someone confirms you can actually create private tournaments! - I’ll just invite everyone into the game.
Don’t forget: it’s 8pm UK time, 9pm CET
nice GMT .
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Weird Al ftw
i cant create a private room so dont think its possible. I have just treid to set up a private room
You may not be able to set up a private room but can you kick if you are hosting or can you just send out invites? Max of 8 players a table is it?
Wow, that’s pretty rubbish. There’s definitely no way of doing any sort of Custom Game, and setting it to “Friends Only”?
Good job this game’s free.
you can create tournaments but im not online atm so dont know how it works.¬_¬
Bah, I’ll be at work til 10pm
Private rooms/tounaments are possible.
You can use either a standard game and set up a room or a tournament and set up a room. It will ask how many players and on the next screen you simply move the public player to private player or computer. So you can invite up to 7 friends or have a mixture of freinds, public or computer players.
This works in standard games and tournament (player match) games.
Nice one sire!
right I’m going online now.
Stud msg me or msg u when I’m on.
Headsets work?
It’s not bad…
Ah, there is the free Texas Hold’em
Thnx
I’m at work and I haven’t paid my broadband connection yet, arrrgghhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Need to get shit sorted for getting home, how long is it taking to download?
TalkTalk upgraded my broadband line to 6 meg download yesterday, wooooooo!
Shouldn’t think it takes long to download at all, it’s only 26MB, so even if it’s slow then it might only be ten minutes
Took 5 minutes for me to download!!
26MB, so couple of minutes here at 8Mbit
im on 8Mbit aswell but its the microsoft servers which are running slow!!
Took me 1 minute. I have a 10mb connection
Shame it can’t help you finish work any earlier
tell me about it
I could finish now but it would just mean working later tomorrow.
getting it now !!!
w00t!
The girl has just been phoned and got told to pay that phonebill, should be cool for me getting home from work.
Got me weed, got me drink just need to get me poker and green visor then you will all get owned.
I’m gonna miss the 48-hour window. Gee thanks Red Lights of Death.
Complain. And get it free.
take ur hdd to a mates house?!
My 360 is going in for repair today so I would have missed out on it but a mate has taken my hard drive to DL it for me
It’s a conspiracy
That’s a bitch. I’d bitchslap the support guys and force them to give you 800MP.
Actually it’s mainly my fault, I waited until after vacation to contact Best Buy for the warranty
Ah, there is the free Texas Hold’em.
Ah, there ISN’T the Madden Demo.
You’re right; it IS refreshing.
Ah Madden Shmaddin, ain’t even real football.
It’s a girls game.
madden sucks, but actually playing american football IRL is extremely fun.
I had it THE very minute it came out, then lost all my money and got kicked out of the table. i went to bed after that.
They need to implement some sort of remote download service so I can download future releases from work. Then you can just…
1. Go to xbox.com and download pick what you want to download either free or paid content
2. Xbox.com would send a wakeup packet to your 360 (may require some port forwarding and boot to dash enabled)
3. The download would begin
4. Download completes/turns 360 off/e-mails you and lets you know process is done…
THAT! Would be badass
That would be okay if I could select my downloads off there and then when I switch my Xbox on it will download them automatically. It will take you points when you select the downloads.
Yeah … I’ve thought the same thing (kinda like Tivo does it) …
Of course, given where I work, I can’t get to Xbox.com either. So I need a site that remotely attaches to xbox.com, which then remotely initiates downloads from my 3 6 0 .
Ah, there is the free Texas Hold’em. I’m looking forward to all the tournaments. Even though i still have to learn the rules…..
KBJ FTW eh studley
this game is ace
What happened to the Xboxic game then?
It happened, but there were only four of us, and ten seconds ago I realised that maybe I’ve not added you to my friends list
Will probably try again tonight!
The Glovner with no _ for the gamertag.
Played with a couple of All in whores last night but it really didn’t pay off. One guy kept going all in before the flop came so everyone just folded, when I questioned him about his dubious tactics he informed me he had just bluffed my ass to win the pot (which was at that point $600) and I didn’t know what I was talking about. We then started the next hand he went all in I called (with a pair of aces) and I took £50000 off him straight away, then he left.
What happens when you lose all of your moneys? Do you have to play free tables forever, or do you eventually get more $? Just wondering, since my friends and I play like a bunch of crazies, and I’m down to my last few thousand.