Multi-player poker on SSH
ssh cli.poker
Details
- External ID
- 48917196
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Multi-player poker on SSH
- Website domain
- cli.poker
- Launched
- July 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2873357228195938
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
my motivation - i was looking for some CLI games to play when the agent is working and this idea came into my head. this was when fable was available for 3 days, so seemed like a good use of tokens to try and build this out. spent some time polishing to finally get this out.the public matchmaking connects you on a first come first serve basis to anyone else in the world. there is a bot that will connect in-case a match is not found for 45 seconds. games last about 5-10 minutes (tournament style fast paced). and each game impacts your rating (glicko-2). so they're quite nice for idle time when the agents are running :)some other ideas in my head... - add a 1v1 mode where you can play against a co-worker/friend - company/college specific leaderboardswould love feedback / advice please!
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent games and chess tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- multiplayer poker over ssh
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes cli.poker is an SSH-accessible terminal application with Texas Hold'em game logic, Glicko-2 ratings, and terminal UI formatting (e.g., via Bubble Tea / Wish in Go), which LLMs excel at generating.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Service availability/downtime issues, Window resizing causes loss of hand results output, Names truncated in name field
Feature requests: Save bot on/off preferences, Replay/rematch functionality with countdown timer, Show opponent ranking, Longer hand resolution time for viewing both hands, Move chat to left side to avoid overlap with hand results
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Launched 257 days after the earliest competitor.
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