Stacked With Daniel Negreanu.

We're definitely inching toward respectability with poker games lately. Each of the most recent crop of games seems to take a step forward in at least one area...though usually at the cost of a half-step back in another.

Stacked is a particularly powerful example of this. The most impressive thing about the game is the opponent AI. The developers really nailed the right balance of aggression and timidity--so much so that this is the first game where I've gotten the feeling I can actually read my opponents' hands simply by the way they bet.

It's clear the devs put a great deal of time into getting the competition just right. And that's sort of the problem. It …