You can turn the chattiness all the way down and they don't say anything.
You probably should just play another poker game, there's likely a crap ton of them online for free. The humor and characters is the whole reason this game exists. I love it.

"You can turn the chattiness all the way down and they don't say anything. You probably should just play another poker game, there's likely a crap ton of them online for free. The humor and characters is the whole reason this game exists. I love it. "

Exactly as audiosnag put it, this game is all about the characters and the awesome chats they have. If you bought this game to play poker and only hear the occasional funny dialog when they go all in or lose all their cash, then you probably want to play something like PKR.

Humor with a U?! You BET I love it! 
Seriously, as long as it's actually funny, I'm completely ok with that. But I'm not really a big poker fan.

This was an impulse buy and I was shocked to discover it's a single player only poker game...what's the point? I played one game and I'll probably never touch it again, a waste of $5.

For hardcore poker players its maybe not the best buy in the world, for people who play it once in a blue moon (like myself) its perfect.

@MB said:

" This was an impulse buy and I was shocked to discover it's a single player only poker game...what's the point? I played one game and I'll probably never touch it again, a waste of $5. "

" @Jasta: It wouldn't be pointless at all - all of the commentary and witty banter could be there for single player, then simply have it and the unnecessarily long animations turned off for multiplayer. "

I DO like Humor! Sounds like this is the game for me! Haven't actually bought it yet, but I will next time I am running windows and have steam up. Doing lots of work now though, and that's all in linux. 

" This was an impulse buy and I was shocked to discover it's a single player only poker game...what's the point? I played one game and I'll probably never touch it again, a waste of $5. "

" @Jasta: It wouldn't be pointless at all - all of the commentary and witty banter could be there for single player, then simply have it and the unnecessarily long animations turned off for multiplayer. "

How much longer would it have taken them to add the online play? I reckon they wanted to concentrate on making it a unique single player experience, rather than make just another online poker game to compete with the fuck tons of other online poker games in existence. 

I have no idea of the cost / how many man-hours it would take to add multiplayer, but I'm guessing it wasint worth the trouble.

Meh, 5 bucks. Totally worth it in my opinion. Lots of funny dialogue. And it's perfect to play while listening to podcasts after turning the chattiness down.
 
Plus, Video Games Rodkin and Famous Vanaman worked on it, so I sort of had to buy it.

" @MB said:

" This was an impulse buy and I was shocked to discover it's a single player only poker game...what's the point? I played one game and I'll probably never touch it again, a waste of $5. "

When my friend told me there was no multiplayer, it just confirmed to me that this is yet another TF2 item farm and ploy to get people to spend money. "

I wish those guys would let me have it my way.  Damn you, Heavy, you know how to play cards.  You and your damn boyish charm, Heavy.

" @MB said:

" This was an impulse buy and I was shocked to discover it's a single player only poker game...what's the point? I played one game and I'll probably never touch it again, a waste of $5. "

When my friend told me there was no multiplayer, it just confirmed to me that this is yet another TF2 item farm and ploy to get people to spend money. "

Yes, like what other people have already said this game is more about the characters and their interaction with each other than it is about poker.  
 
 

the conversations can take place in the background, but keep the game fluid!

Humouuuuuuuur.

My biggest gripe is that it's too easy to bluff the CPU. 
 
Just keep raising and raising and then go all in, the CPU folds but you keep all the cash they put into the raises. 
 
Also, the 1v1 is boring as all hell.

Making this game more about poker would have been a very foolish thing to do.

"Making this game more about poker would have been a very foolish thing to do. "

Looks less like a poker game and more of a point and click Flash type thing.

" Oooo yes I see, humour is probably the canadian way of writting it lol. :p har har "

I don't understand why you would buy this game if you're just looking for a simple straightforward poker game...

" @mesklinite said:

" Oooo yes I see, humour is probably the canadian way of writting it lol. :p har har "

it's the british way doggers  also, it was developed by like 4 people; adding online would have taken too long. "

I have been playing it this morning, the writing and scripting is very good, its Poker and its incredibly cheap.  Well worth a purchase.

 how long before the jokes start repeating? 

"  how long before the jokes start repeating?  "

I really like it. Poker is fun, and the characters and dialouge is awesome. I really fell in love with Strongbad which I had never paid much attention to.

" @stinky said:

"  how long before the jokes start repeating?  "

I was wondering the same thing.  "

I've heard some repeats, but there's still a fair bit of material in there that I haven't heard yet so it's cool.

I love the Penny Arcade characters as well as the Heavy, but I'll go to the respective franchise if I want to hear clever banter. I wanted a fun and cool poker game I could play with my friends. 

Cannot edit posts on iPod, just want to chime in and say that it annoys me greatly to see colour with out a 'u'. Recently been getting used to it just becuase of autocomplete when writing CSS code.

" @Jasta: It wouldn't be pointless at all - all of the commentary and witty banter could be there for single player, then simply have it and the unnecessarily long animations turned off for multiplayer. "

" Cannot edit posts on iPod, just want to chime in and say that it annoys me greatly to see colour with out a 'u'. Recently been getting used to it just becuase of autocomplete when writing CSS code. "