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World Series of Poker: Full House Pro for Xbox Live Arcade will be shut down on March 4, 2015, developer Pipeworks software has announced.

Following is a timeline of events leading up its closure:

• World Series of Poker: Full House Pro for the Xbox 360 was originally released to the public on September 3, 2013.
• World Series of Poker: Full House Pro for Windows 8 was released on April 9, 2014 that featured cross-platform play.
• New weekly events stopped occurring after the week of May 29, 2014.
• An announcement on June 3, 2014 from the developer’s website stated the development phase had ended and new content would be not created anymore for World Series of Poker: Full House Pro.
• An announcement on September 4, 2014 from the developer’s website stated that World Series of Poker: Full House Pro will close on March 4, 2015.

What does this mean to the players? Click ahead to find out for yourself.

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Full House Poker was developed by Microsoft Games Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios.  It was released March 15, 2011 for 800MSP. A copy of the game was provided by the publisher for review purposes.

Last year, 1 vs. 100 pushed boundaries for what the digital space could provide on consoles by engaging thousands of players at one time in a game show like format. This year, Microsoft is back at it again with a spiritual successor of sorts in the form of Full House Poker. Players fill the shoes of their own avatars as they play the prevalent form of Poker (Texas Hold ‘Em), while attempting to expand their own virtual bankrolls. But do the cards deserve you going all in?

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