GameCube Advanced - World Championship Poker Game Ships

GameCube Advanced - GCAdvanced.com - 100% GCN and GBA Coverage: "World Championship Poker Ships " November 19, 2004 by: Larry McCormick Play a little Seven-Card Stud on the road alone or with friends courtesy of publisher Crave. Crave announced today that it has shipped World Championship Poker for the Game Boy Advance and PS2 with an Xbox release scheduled for the holiday season. "Poker has become the latest obsession," said Vincent Bitetti, president, Crave Entertainment Inc. "Type the word 'poker' in a search engine and more than 67 million websites emerge ready to inform, entertain, tutor or take ones money all in the name of poker. We’ve created World Championship Poker to satisfy this age-old drive to outsmart, outwit and out gamble one’s opponent." The GBA version of the game features link-up play so up to four gamers can compete against each other in one of twelve games. A few of the games available include Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hold'em, Seven-Card Stud, Five-Card Draw and Pineapple. The single player mode also features tournaments to play through in a Career Mode. World Championship Poker for the Game Boy Advance is available now, is rated E for Everyone and should retail for about $19.99 here