Would be quite a great offline poker game, but lack of quality removes most interest in it.

User Rating: 3.8 | World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer PC
The first hand experience with the game is quite pleasant. It provides an interesting offline gaming experience.

But being myself a professional software developer, I just cannot forgive the presence of a bug like the one that several game owners have reported. I just experienced it myself after a few hours of playing.

The bug? If you play large tourneys (> 200 players) you'll have a crash before completing the tournament . Minimal QA tests would have catch that before RTM.

In the realm of software development, if you can reproduce a bug, you can fix it.
Since this problem is also present on platforms such as PS2, it makes it even easier to reproduce and fix (no need to figure out a particular hardware config).

This bug alone removes most incentive to play the career mode.

If there was a rating for the game developers, I would give them a big zero.

WCP2 is still playable, as long as you avoid large tournaments, and because of that, I will probably play from time to time, but I would not recommend buying the game, until you see a downloadable patch for that easy-to-diagnose (and therefore, fix) bug.