# TGL Poker (No-Limit Texas Hold'em)

> A free, no-install, browser-based 6-handed solo NLHE cash game. Buy in
> for $1,000 at $5/$10 blinds against five distinct AI bot personalities
> (TAG, Calling Station, LAG, Maniac, Rock). Play hands until you cash
> out, bust, or hit the hand cap. Replay-validated with full action +
> millisecond timing logs. No real money.

Tagline: Read The Table. Play Your Game. Own Every Hand.

Site: https://tglgames.com/
Play: https://tglgames.com/poker/
About: https://tglgames.com/poker/about/
Design doc: https://tglgames.com/docs/poker.md

## What it is

No-Limit Texas Hold'em, cash-game style. You sit at seat 0 of a 6-handed
table; five deterministic AI bots fill seats 1–5. Each bot uses one of
five distinct strategy archetypes (one of each per run). Free, no real
money, no purchases.

## Rules

- 6 seats; you're seat 0.
- $5/$10 blinds, $1,000 starting stack each seat. No ante, no straddle.
- Standard NLHE betting (check, call, bet, raise, fold).
- Dealer button rotates clockwise each hand; SB / BB are next two
  clockwise.
- Heads-up: SB-on-button.
- Standard hand ranking; ace high or low for the wheel; ties split with
  odd-chip going to the seat first clockwise from the button.
- Busted seats sit out and the table plays short (no rebuy in v1).
- Player cannot rebuy; $0 ends the run.

## End conditions

- `cashout` — voluntary stop. Final stack = leaderboard score.
- `busted` — stack hit zero.
- `max_hands` — 100-hand cap.
- `chip_cap` — $100,000 chip cap (capped at submit).
- `table_dead` — all bots busted; you win by attrition.

## AI personalities

Five distinct archetypes, one of each per run:

| name              | call_thresh | raise_thresh | open_thresh | bluff_freq |
| ----------------- | ----------- | ------------ | ----------- | ---------- |
| Tight Reg         | high        | high         | high        | low        |
| Calling Station   | very low    | high         | medium      | none       |
| LAG (loose-agg)   | medium      | low          | low         | high       |
| Maniac            | very low    | very low     | very low    | very high  |
| Solid Pro         | balanced    | balanced     | balanced    | low        |

Bot order is randomised per run; bot personalities are recorded on the
run row so replay analysis can group by opponent type.

## Scoring

`score = max(0, min(MAX_CHIPS, stack_at_end))`. Cap is $100,000; tie-
broken by `duration_ms` ascending.

## Determinism + replay

- Mulberry32 PRNG, identical JS / PHP, drives the deck order + every AI
  decision.
- The full move log captures every action by every player, every deal,
  and the millisecond timing of each action. The server replays the
  entire run from `(seed, move_log)` byte-for-byte and rejects any
  mismatch.
- AI version is stamped on the run so old runs still validate after AI
  tuning.

## Controls

- **Mouse / touch**: click action buttons (Check / Call / Bet / Raise /
  Fold). Bet sizing via a chip slider with preset chips (½, ¾, pot,
  all-in).
- **Keyboard**: C = check / call, F = fold, B = bet / raise (then digits
  to set amount, Enter to confirm), A = all-in. Cash Out button always
  available between hands.

## Known v1 limitations

Side-pots are simplified — an all-in short-stack receives only what
they contributed × callers, but pot calculation collapses to a single
main pot to keep replay tractable. Run-it-twice, insurance, rabbit
hunt, straddles, ante, bomb pots, mid-run rebuy, rake, and chat are
deferred for v2.

## Privacy / signup

- No account required; guests get a username on first visit.
- No real money. No payment processor anywhere on the site.
- No tracking pixels, no analytics SDK, no third-party scripts.

## Genre / keywords

texas hold'em, no-limit hold'em, NLHE, online poker, free poker, browser
poker, html5 poker, 6-handed poker, cash game poker, poker vs ai,
poker simulator, mobile poker, leaderboard poker, mgwalk, tglgames.com

## Author

mgwalk — https://tglgames.com/