Show HN: Multi-player poker on SSH – ssh cli.poker (cli.poker)

2 points by animeshjain ↗ HN
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 leaderboards

would love feedback / advice please!

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would change the check/call to two different keys, otherwise ace!
Is it down? Got a few games in earlier and can't play it anymore suddenly.
Suggestions - Add 1-2 more seconds for hand resolution so that we can look at both hands

- Move chat to the left hand side so that it doesn't get overrun by hand results

- Ability to print hands in a log

- Ranking update after every game (+40 pts. You moved up X rankings and are now ranked Y)

- Tweaks to TUI setup: I resized the window temporarily and lost the hand results/output section until I restarted the ssh cnxn

thanks for the feedback! by ability to print hands in a log - you mean to be able to download the logs locally ?
Yeah, something to share w/ an LLM maybe. Some more feedback:

- Save bot on/off preferences

- When the game is over, `r` to replay against the same user. Maybe a 3-5s countdown for rematches instead of booting back to lobby

- Names are truncated in the main name field

- Underneath the name field, show the ranking of your opponent

good points. will address some of these in the next release soon!