Server Online for beta testing

PokDTC is not yet dead. The cash game server entered the beta testing step.
The server offers 2 tables: an Head up HE NL one you can play with through Flex Gui on chouprod.sourceforge.net/pokdtcFlex.html, a full ring one through a command line prog Windows/Cygwin/Linux support.

Feel free to trial it , I hope you will find an opponent. If you get interest into the command line version (office playing) or remarks/bugs, please send me a mail.

The next step wil be a free release of the cash game server , the support of omaha variant and tournament /admin features.

Enjoy the the game

PokDTC on the rails

You can test my bot online throught PokDTC Network and PokDTC Flex.
The server is not always online so don't get upset if nothing happen.
The flash application tries to connect on port 16003 or 16004 to establish a connection, check your proxy/router rules about that.
You can find it at
http://chouprod.sourceforge.net/pokdtcFlex.html
There is only a unique open table and the bot is waiting for you. The structure is NLH 5/10 starting with 1500. It is possible that the bot begins with a different amount if the former opponent abandon the game before bankrupt. If you or the bot wins, everybody will start with 1500 at next hand.


The bot is on its learning stage, yesterday it has learned to do gambling preflop all in from Jam bot Poker Academy Bot.

Post comments to make any cristism or ask questions about it

PokDTC Network Clients: line up

A lot of PokDTC Network clients are one the way. The server is ready but not bug-free, I currently working on clients side.
I should release at the end of the week the flash version playable from chouprod.sourceforge.net website and maybe from here. Here is a sum up of the work that still has to be done:

• PokDTC Flex: Flash 9 version 95% (Heads up) 70%(up to 10 players)
• PokDTC Office: Command line version to play at office undercover :o) 99% ( up to 10 players)
• PokDTC PSP: As the flash player of pokdtc is Flash version 6 limited, I am writting a special portage of pokdtc on PSP. I have already done an ugly UI but playable PSP poker game called PokDTC BP. I have to add the network feature on it. I hope I will be able to finish it before August 40% of work left.
• PokDTC Java is already written but the UI is a real shame, so I should magnificient it.
• PokDTC C# should be written very quikly but I prefer to buikd a plugin to PokDTC Stand alone (my old but fully featured poker game) to allow it to connect to Pokdtc Network.
• If I have some more time to waste I will try to build a DS portage but that not that sure (I don't own it and I don't know a stuff about wifi support on it).

Anyway, I have almost finished to build my own Heads up No limit poker bot. And that's why I build so many clients in order to test it against the more human players as I can. I hope that people will get access to it before the start of August.


Every client should be open source and I should publish soon a doc if you get interested by building your own bot/client.

How works PokDTC Universe?

Example of pokdtc architecture, several clients are playing together from different places

With PokDTC Universe , you can play against players from different platforms.
Clients are not to deal with poker rules, the server send them informations they need to know to play. (Stakes , amount of chips, cards...) throught the socket stream.

Clients with UI just need to display pics and button to allow human to act.
You can build your own client by following the framework and the current client sources.
Client side is so easy to deal with: one evening is enough to build one !

WTF is PokDTC ?

Pokdtc is a pack of several own made softwares allowing to play poker almost everywhere.
The first one is PokDTC (!!) written in C# .Net2 with lot of features:

• texas hold'em NL/POT/L up to 10 players.
• hosting mono table LAN/net games
  
• online chat
• benchmark of your skills
  
• editable sounds
• editable blinds structures/start chips
• blinds chronometer
  
• speaker (based on Microsoft voice)
  
• bots
• online high score
• several game modes ( survival, aggressiv)
• export game events
• free !!

This software was fun to develop but begun to be huge and messy. So, I decided to build a light poker TCP server and several clients. The server runs on Cygwin/Linux ( and all OS based on TCP posix and pthread features).

Features of the poker server:

• light/fast
• handles X multi tables from several type HU/SH/FR
  
• multithreaded
• L/NL/P Hold'em
  
• allow search table
  

Today clients are:

1. "PokDTC Shell" plays on text mode (on cygwin/linux) up to 10 players
   
2. "PokDTC Flex" plays with flash 9 technology (all web explorer with flash 9 codec) HU only
   
3. "PokDTC Java" Java version HU only for the moment

I expect to build "PokDTC C#", "PokDTC PSP" and "PokDTC DS" in the future.

Chouprod

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