PokerTH

The open source Texas Hold'em engine — play against the computer or against other people over the internet. The project has been around since 2006, is licensed under the AGPLv3 , and carries no ads, no real-money gambling and no tracking. Features Texas Hold'em, 2–10 players — single player against bots, local network or internet play Tournament-style games — start money, blind levels raised by hand count or by minutes, manual blind orders, action timeouts and configurable GUI speed Public, registered-only, invite-only and ranking games , with optional spectators Lobby with player list, game list, chat, emoji reactions and private messages that persist per account Chat translation on demand (opt-in, see docs/third party services.md) Looks — 20 table themes, 11 card decks, several card backsides, import/export of themes as ZIP 29 languages , with the full UI translated Cross platform — Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS Own server — a dedicated server binary you can run anywhere (docs/server setup howto.txt) The ready-made packages for every platform are linked from pokerth.net/download . Depending on your system: Linux Flatpak ( net.pokerth.PokerTH ), Snap ( pokerth ), AppImage, .deb , portable ZIP Windows Installer (contains both clients) macOS DMG (contains both clients) Android APK from the PokerTH F-Droid repo: iOS see build ios qml.sh — no App Store build yet pokerth qml-client Qt Quick / QML (src/gui/qt6-qml) current client, all platforms, scales from phone to desktop pokerth client Qt Widgets (src/gui/qt) the classic desktop client; 2.1.9 is its final release Server side there are two server binaries: pokerth dedicated server for everybody who wants to host games, and pokerth official server , which adds the user database used by pokerth.net. Requirements Qt ≥ 6.7.0 (6.9.2 LTS recommended) Boost ≥ 1.83 — thread, filesystem, date time, program options, iostreams, asio, regex, random, uuid Protocol Buffers ≥ 2.3.0 ( protoc at build time, libprotobuf at runtime) OpenSSL CMake ≥ 3.15, a C++23 compiler, Ninja recommended For a clean build including the test certificate and the data directory inside build/ , run bash clean build.sh first. See INSTALL for details. Windows docker/windows (MinGW cross build) Android docker/android, build android qml.sh macOS / iOS build macos combined.sh, build ios qml.sh AppImage / deb / ZIP / Snap / Flatpak docker/linux src/engine poker engine — hands, betting rounds, bot logic (local and network variant) src/net client and server networking (Boost.Asio, TLS, WebSocket for the browser client) src/db, src/dbofficial server database interface and the asynchronous MySQL backend of the official server src/gui/qt Qt Widgets client src/gui/qt6-qml QML client ( pages/ , components/ , C++ backend in cpp/ , translations in i18n/ ) src/core, src/config logging, crypto, avatar handling, configuration files src/chatcleaner chat filter service used by the official server pokerth.proto the network protocol — the single source of truth for client and server data graphics, sounds, fonts, themes, card decks docs server setup, styling howto, keyboard shortcuts, third-party services tools, preview server log analysis, screenshot and theme preview automation tests protocol test suite (Java) driving a running server The server reads its settings from the PokerTH config file and writes its log next to it. The complete walkthrough — ports, firewall, TLS certificate, server list entry — is in docs/server setup howto.txt. Helper tools around the server: pokerth bot — headless client for load and protocol tests pokerth globalnotice — sends a notice to everyone on a server tools/analyze server log.py — renders a server log as SVG Game table, card deck and card back are three separate style categories, and all of them are pure data — an XML file plus its graphics, no code. The QML client ships 20 table themes, 11 card decks and 16 card backs in data/gfx/qml; the Qt Widgets client has its own sets in data