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Re:How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better a... by potench on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:48AM (#24590375)
An anecdote: I play a “home” online poker game with friends every Friday since quarantine started. It has been a great way to have some weekend fun and hangout (we zoom while we play). I love the “all-in” moments when you see the odds displayed for each hand and there’s still at least a turn/river left to watch. Watching the odds play out and seeing the occasional 3% chance win is so fun. I’d love to see odds annotations on more things, maybe it would be a cool AR feature.
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Re:How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better a... by gregorymichael on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:17AM (#24590689)
i think we all want to know what software you're using. Pokerrrrrrrrrrrrr 2 seems to be the default, and it's fine, but there has to be something better.
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Re:How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better a... by Pick-A-Hill2019 on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:05PM (#24591242)
Have you tried PokerTH? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PokerTH
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Re:How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better a... by potench on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:57AM (#24662628)
More detail in other comment below but we use pokerstars.bet.
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Re:How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better a... by ManuelKiessling on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:56AM (#24590468)
What software do you use for the actual poker game?
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Re:How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better a... by potench on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:55AM (#24662616)
We use pokerstars.bet which has an option to obtain free tokens and to host a “home” game. You share your “club id” so your friends can register for and join your game. Some friends observe the game without playing. Separately, we join a zoom while playing. $20 buy in and the software allows optional buy-backs for a period.

It scales automatically to number of players so we’ve had multiple tables going at once in a game that collapse down as players are eliminated.

Pokerstars is a beast, it opens a million windows, but I gotta admit, it’s also got a million features - though once it did incorrectly decide the winning hang which left all of us scratching our heads and 1 person very upset.

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Re:How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better a... by petesamrogers on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:17AM (#24590691)
Discovered via the doc below, I've used lipoker.io and blockchain.poker. Both decent and accounts/logins not required https://docs.google.com/document/d/10iOD7Wy_YU4NmkPU7ZH7YTrq...
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Re:How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better a... by ryandrake on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:30AM (#24590853)
There are so many different software platforms for poker in 2020 it's not even funny. So much competition and innovation. I have about half a dozen poker groups that play regularly (some daily) together, and while most of them settled on PokerStars and PokerBros, others are using Poker Mavens (self hosted), PokerNow, Pokerrrr, etc. I thought COVID-19 would kill poker but it really seems to be going through a revitalization with everyone bored at home.
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Re:How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better a... by bmitch2112 on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:55AM (#24590460)
What do you use to play?
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