Motion Sensored Poker

The Wii was just recently released a world series of poker for their system, and that’s freaking awesome. Of course nothing goes better with a game of poker than a black eye. I do like the Wii but I just wish it would have better graphics, I kind of want to see a legit looking Doyal Brunson and not a bubble headed Mii version of him. But this is seriously cool, maybe they’ll allow for some online gambling for it, maybe this will qualify as a game of skill depending on how you move the Wii remote maybe you’ll play better. At least I will, as a U.S. citizen, have something to do when they completely ban me from playing online poker.
What sounds pretty cool to me is the story mode, where you can start out as a noob in the series and work your way up to poker god! This game has some serious potential for the future, every corporation has tried one way or another to get kids interested in their product for the future by starting them out as kids. There were candy cigarettes, McDonald’s video games, even bible video games at one point. It has always been clear that getting kids interested in something will lead them to like that same something when they are older, and you know loads of kids will be learning at a young age how to be a good poker player.
I know when I was 8 I had no idea what poker was, especially not Texas hold’em. But if I would have had a chance to get into it when I was so young I probably would have started playing in tournaments when I was 18, and that would have been damn cool. All of my favorites will be there which is nice, I remember some earlier attempts at video poker have left out so many, but the Wii has their pros locked down pretty tight.