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Poker without the casino: Texas Hold'em in your browser, play money only, open source. Here we write up what broke while building it, and how we fixed it.

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A poker night with friends, online, with nothing to settle up

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Oct 19

How often both your cards play in Hold’em

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Five-Card Draw: what the number of cards gives away

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Oct 19

Your cards stay on the server

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Oct 19

A beginner beat our hardest table by betting

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Why a flush beats a full house in Short Deck

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Omaha’s exactly-two rule, in five hands

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What Google and Apple tell us when you sign in

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Oct 19

Pot odds when you can’t cover the bet

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Oct 19

Deal me in dealt you a menu

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Pip has a membership now

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Oct 19

The mock-ups on your landing page are untested claims

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Oct 19

Your Cloudflare Pages site is on Google twice

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Oct 19

A route missing from your sitemap is not noindexed

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Oct 19

How accurate is a poker equity calculator? We checked ours against an answer we could count

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Oct 19

August: what shipped

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Oct 19

Five things pokersolver does that its README does not mention

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Oct 19

Everything we have published that was wrong

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Oct 19

Verify today’s deal yourself

#coding #javascript #programming

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Oct 19

Two devices, two chip counts

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Oct 19

Pip, for readers who aren’t people

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Oct 19

Launch week: what shipped

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Oct 19

Pip is live, and it’s open source

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A poker night with friends, online, with nothing to settle up

How often both your cards play in Hold’em

Five-Card Draw: what the number of cards gives away

Your cards stay on the server

A beginner beat our hardest table by betting

Why a flush beats a full house in Short Deck

Omaha’s exactly-two rule, in five hands

What Google and Apple tell us when you sign in

Pot odds when you can’t cover the bet

Deal me in dealt you a menu

Pip has a membership now

The mock-ups on your landing page are untested claims

Your Cloudflare Pages site is on Google twice

A route missing from your sitemap is not noindexed

How accurate is a poker equity calculator? We checked ours against an answer we could count

August: what shipped

Five things pokersolver does that its README does not mention

Everything we have published that was wrong

Verify today’s deal yourself

Two devices, two chip counts

Pip, for readers who aren’t people

Launch week: what shipped

Pip is live, and it’s open source