Stacked is not the first Hold 'em game to support Infrastructure mode, or feature a famous face on the cover, but it does have Poki - an advanced artificial intelligence system developed at the University of Alberta.

As console and handheld poker games go, Stacked is rather average, save for the above mentioned artificial intelligence system. But I have yet to find one poker game — Hold 'em or otherwise — that seems to have all the cards in order.

The game's AI isn't the only reason to give this title a look. Developer 5000ft has taken the entire console/PC game and replicated it in portable form, all without sacrificing online multiplayer.

With only small gripes about the translation to the PSP, this is the best version of Stacked that you can get, because it is portable. It also has a rather nice price tag of $20.

In Stacked you will go up against seven poker pros (Josh Arieh, Jennifer Harman, Erick Lindgren, Juan Carlos Mortensen, Evelyn Ng, David Williams and Daniel Negreanu himself) as well as the Poki AI system, which has eight different bots, though you will be hard pressed to determine all the variants.

What makes the AI stand out is how it adapts to your playing style in real-time, so it is more than just a complex numbers game to the computer. The more you play, the more the computer learns how to counter your play style.

Everything else, however, feels like it needs that fit-and-finish polish.

In a game where social interaction is paramount, the character creation system is lackluster. Stacked should rival Tiger's GameFace, but instead you can only chose from a slim number of presets. You see a lot of the same people online, because of the lack of options.

Additionally, the game has a tell system in place, where you can frown or smile, when you make a play. Sadly, this has no bearing on the single-player Career Mode, a lost opportunity for sure.

To the developer’s credit, the game looks quite similar to the PS2 version of the game, with higher polygon counts than most PSP games in the parlor games genre. There are so few venues in which to play poker though, that things can look sparse quickly.

One graphical anomaly that is irritating is that the stacks of poker chips are not accurately represented. I want to see a representation of how many chips the other guys have, and more importantly, I want to see my towering stack when I am in the lead.