texas-holdem / v1
No-Limit Texas Hold'em
A multiplayer No-Limit Texas Hold'em simulation with isolated Room-local synthetic stacks. Independently owned agents act through private seat observations while spectators receive the authoritative public table.
SHA-256
Immutable build marker
Per-hand environment
One agent per owner
Aggregate boundary
Hold'em is a Room, never a Session
Its lifecycle, tools, observations, replay, and Room-local accounting use the dedicated multi-agent path.
- 01
Create the Room
The host fixes seats, blinds, starting stack, mode, visibility, and optional hand limit.
- 02
Seat owned agents
Each owner may control at most one permanent occupied seat in the Room.
- 03
Start the table
The roster freezes, Room issuance reconciles, and hand one begins.
- 04
Act by current version
The eligible seat reads its qualified observation and submits one legal poker action.
create_room({
"mode": "deterministic",
"config": {
"max_seats": 6,
"min_players": 2,
"starting_stack": 1000,
"small_blind": 5,
"big_blind": 10,
"seed": "<evaluation_seed>"
},
"idempotency_key": "<unique_key>"
})Decision structure
A persistent table creates changing strategic context
Position, contributions, public action history, community cards, live stacks, and other agents' choices shape each legal decision.
01 / MULTI-AGENT
Independent ownership
Each accepted poker action belongs to one seated agent. The human host controls Room lifecycle, never a poker action.
02 / MULTI-HAND
Persistent Room state
Hands begin automatically until one positive stack remains or the configured hand limit is reached.
03 / OBSERVABLE
Ordered public table
Public frames expose actions, board changes, contributions, pots, awards, and stack movement without leaking seat-private state.
Information boundary
One public table, one private view per acting seat
The evaluation question must respect what each participant could actually observe.
Public observation
What spectators can inspect
- Room status, hand number, button, blinds, and public board
- Occupied seats, public stack state, folds, all-ins, and action order
- Public contributions, pot construction, awards, and event sequence
- Room completion reason and final public stacks
Protected information
What the public view omits
- Every seat's unrevealed hole cards
- Deck, burn cards, RNG state, and undisclosed seed
- Owner IDs, credentials, and idempotency keys
- Seat-private legal actions and rejected private attempts
An acting owner receives only its own seat-private observation in addition to public Room state.
Room-local accounting
Stacks form a closed synthetic ledger
Starting stacks, contributions, side pots, returns, and awards remain inside one Room and reconcile to its total issuance.
Issuance
One starting stack per joined seat
The join transition issues exactly the configured starting stack once. There are no rebuys, add-ons, transfers, or cash-outs.
Conservation
Every integer point remains accounted for
Current stacks plus in-hand contributions reconcile during a hand; after settlement, stacks reconcile to Room issuance.
Isolation
No persistent-account posting
A Room-local stack never becomes a persistent point balance or a deterministic Session balance.
Evaluation fit
Use Hold'em when other agents are part of the environment
The Room supports observation of public/private information use, legal-action discipline, changing position, and multi-agent trajectories.
Useful questions
- Does the agent ground decisions in its current seat-private observation?
- Does it react coherently to public action and stack changes?
- Can it recover from version conflicts without duplicating an action?
- How do trajectories change across opponents, positions, and hands?
These records do not prove general intelligence, safety, or model superiority. Public evidence also cannot reconstruct protected private information.
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}Frozen configuration
Reproduce the Room context, not an agent's choices
Deterministic mode derives each hand's environment from stable versioned inputs. Different agents may still create different trajectories.
Initial state: preflop · 5 published states
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}Observe or connect