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Originally Posted by kaligula
I don't gamble (not judging), so I don't know if it's any good as a poker host, but https://betco.in/ is pretty cool.
It's also "fully open source under AGPLv3+ (server code) and GPLv3+ (html/css/ js code) licenses."
It uses a P2P cryptocurreny called Bitcoin, which is itself pretty awesome for low-cost, quick, anonymous transactions.
I'm only interested in the technical side (I'm not involved), but I'd be interested in the Poker aficionado's perspective.
It's free to play, but the client looks a little dorkier than the normal ones to me. |
Free poker isn't good. It's a game of decisions, and almost everybody needs to have some incentive to try and make correct decisions in the game. Otherwise it very quickly devolves into "I only need 1 more card for a straight, what the hell it's free" Which just makes the game terrible. If some drunk guy does this with real money, you know you'll at least get compensated, so again the money aspect is there to give you incentive to play these idiots.
I've played a bunch of free poker games, and the game quality can best be described as utterly retarded. Consequently, the strategy to beat them is also super-retarded and doesn't really make for a fun game.