Show HN: WebRTC Poker (opens in new tab)

I'm really interested in poker, HU specifically, and I'd be perfectly happy if I could play an AI that gave me a challenging game but the best I've found is Poker Academy Pro and that was pretty poor. I found the AI to be sort of ridiculous and quite exploitable. And I'm not a very good player, maybe a 10NL break-even player (without rake).

So if you know of a good AI that can crush microstakes, I'd love to know about it. Since I'm in it for the challenge and not the $$, I'd be happy to play a computer.

Heads-up play will prevent collusion based on sharing your known hole cards with others, but it of course can't prevent the "asking a friend sitting next to you their opinion on the hand"-type collusion. The webcam video feed would prevent that, though. =)

The AI for fixed limit is much better than that for no-limit (you can do more statistical math on the situation); I could have sworn it wasn't that great on heads-up but now you've got me doubting my memory.

The bitcoin script system only really allows by hashing. People have gotten very hyped up about the programmability of the scripting system in Bitcoin, but anything slightly interesting still requires trust in one or more arbitrators.

In a serious bitcoin/mental poker implementation you could let people put up a bond that's used to pay the other party if you do that. It's not exactly zero trust anymore but still better than the conventional model.

You might still want to post this to 2+2. Granted, 99% of the readers won't be interested in a play money site with virtually zero traffic but 1% will and 1% of 2+2 is a lot of people.

You might be intentionally keeping this on the downlow (so I won't go post it myself, obv) but if not, and you want eyeballs to work out the kinks, that's your place.

Are you looking at doing something like Ventrilo's PTT (Push-To-Talk) -- hotkey-based transmitting like 2-way radios?

Wow, that's a thorough article. Thanks for sharing!

anyway to get notified when you launch this?