I'm looking for tablets that can run decently the mentioned games. So far I believe Surface Pro and Dell Venue 11 as options. Are there any other options I can consider at reasonable prices.
I play poker professionally. This means that I spend a lot of time just sitting in the casino. I would love to have some proper games to play in the meantime between hands. Also, I recently built a beast of a pc for gaming but sold it shortly afterwards as I realized I was only playing civ5 and xcom and had little to no interest in newer games.
The best Windows 8 tablet you're going to get for gaming is probably a Surface Pro or Acer Iconia W700. Both have i5 processors. Normally I would recommend you a computer with an AMD APU, but the only tablet with one is a gigantic 12" Vizio tablet.