Published: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
NEW STUFF FROM THWARTE POKER
Provider clinches solid distribution deals
All-skill poker provider ThwartPoker Inc., is busy this week with the launch of a PC downloadable version of the game, ThwartPoker's All-Skill Poker Tour, featuring the award-winning No Limit Hold'em Blitz and 6 Card Battle stud - poker games that award prizes and cash tied to gameplay.
Concurrently, the company has announced major distribution deals with Big Fish Games and Oberon Media.
ThwartPoker claims it made gaming history in 2004 when it introduced Hold'em Poker+ for Prizes on Infospace Mobile with patented technology that redefined poker by replacing chance with skill. ThwartPoker's mobile game was rated the number 1 mobile game by Infospace in 2005, and received an IGN Wireless Editors' Choice Award. Millions of mobile multiplayer tournament plays took place in 2005 the company says.
"It's an exciting time for ThwartPoker as we have forged distribution deals with some of the leading names in game distribution, while simultaneously releasing the much-anticipated PC version of our game," said Daniel Pfeiffer, co-founder of ThwartPoker. "We're finding that the concept of a strategy-based poker game is appealing to a lot of people - those new to poker as well as traditional poker enthusiasts."
Thwart says the PC version has all the excitement and groundbreaking features of the mobile game, but can now be downloaded and played on the desktop. While preserving the scoring rules, betting and bluffing aspects of traditional poker, the game has players select their own cards rather than being dealt them randomly by the house. Players pick from an open deck of cards and must strategise to achieve a winning hand, including blocking, or "thwarting," competitors. ThwartPoker's sophisticated artificial intelligence technology and innovative gameplay (U.S. patent 6,679,777, others pending) enables virtual opponents to judiciously select cards and bet and bluff with human-like subtlety.