Try PokerAlpha
Start with the three demos below. They run on this site with nothing to install. The research explorers show precomputed engine output, and a few tools need the engine on your own machine.
Watch a solver learn
Run counterfactual regret minimization on Kuhn poker and watch exploitability fall as the strategy improves.
Real CFR computation, checked against the Python reference. Not an animation.
Run the solver →
Play the Arena
Play heads-up Kuhn poker against the trained CFR policy, then see the exact exploitability of how you played.
A small-game sandbox. It does not use the Hold'em release strategy.
Play a hand →
Explore Phase II results
Abstraction refinement, the native speedup, a resolving time-budget slider, translation costs and the ideas that failed.
Precomputed exact results from reduced games, with their controls.
Open the results →Look inside the trained strategy
Precomputed output of the real engine, stamped with the commit that produced it. These run on the public site.
| Decision surface | 81 engine analyses over bet size and stack depth, showing where the recommendation flips. |
| Trust map | 169 preflop hands × 3 nodes with gate verdicts, visits and cross-seed disagreement. |
| Solver microscope | One information set followed across training checkpoints and seeds. |
| Policy atlas | 6,000 stored policies projected to two dimensions. |
| Red team | Automated search for fragile states, with an independent confirmation run. |
| Hand replay | One decision with the modelled opponent range, street by street. |
| Agent arena | Seat-swapped agent tournaments with confidence intervals. |
| Game lab | Kuhn, Leduc and an auction duel on the same solver stack, with exact exploitability. |
Tools that need the engine on your machine
Live analysis requires the PokerAlpha engine running locally (python -m poker_alpha.api), and it only accepts requests from a copy of this site served on your own machine. On the public site these pages show what is listed in the last column, not live analysis. How to run it locally.
| tool | with the local engine | on this site |
|---|---|---|
| Analyzer | Runs your own hand state through the full decision pipeline. | bundled example spots |
| Strategy explorer | Browses the release strategy's preflop matrix node by node. | bundled preflop nodes |
| Session review | Reviews an uploaded hand history after the session. | a notice; uploads need the engine |
| Trainer | Asks you to play a spot and grades you against the engine's mix. | bundled demo spots |
What the application looks like
Captures of the current pages and the desktop overlay, not mockups.
New here? The ten-step tour walks through the project in order.