3. Game Screen

1. Game Menu Screen

Pressing the Game button on the menu screen displays the following screen.

This application allows you to select the following items when playing the game.

1. Rule Configuration: Game rules such as poker hand ranking criteria and number of cards dealt
2. Economics Configuration: Rules concerning chips and betting methods, such as whether it’s a Ring Game or Tournament (S&G), and stack and ante amounts
3. Player Configuration: Settings for what kind of NPCs you play against
4. Play Log Recording: Select whether to save your play history for AI learning (In this game, you can play against an algorithm (AI) that has learned from your own play history as an opponent.)

In this game, users can freely configure each item, but they can also use the settings prepared by the system (default). Here, we briefly explain the various default settings. Games with widely known rules are registered as defaults, allowing play without detailed user configuration.

2. Rule Configuration

The default rule configurations provided are as follows. Rule explanations for each game are available on the official website. You can also check the rule settings for each game from the Game Settings screen.

Texas Hold’em	Short Deck Hold’em	Omaha Hold’em
7 Cards Stud	Super Hold’em	Omaha HiLo
7 Cards Stud HiLo	Fix Limit Hold’em	Pot Limit Omaha
PL Omaha HiLo	6 Card Omaha	Lowball
Joker as a Bug	Joker Wild	Flop Start Texas Hold’em
Turn Start Texas Hold’em	3 Card Poker

​Additionally, as a special feature unique to this game, you can play games where the rules are randomly generated, preventing players from knowing the rules beforehand. You can enjoy highly challenging games where you must deduce the rules themselves through several rounds of play. Three game types are available, differing in the degree of randomness.

1. Random Mild: Compared to standard poker rules, 2 to 4 elements are randomly modified. Changes may involve the number of cards dealt, hand composition rules, hand strength rankings, or designating specific cards as wild cards. On average, these games tend to follow poker rules, resulting in slightly modified gameplay.
2. Random Moderate: Compared to standard poker rules, multiple elements undergo random rule changes. Guessing the rules becomes significantly harder, often resulting in rules that seem unrecognizable as poker. On average, the game tends to remain one where inferences from poker rules are useful, though accurately grasping the exact rules might sometimes be difficult.
3. Random Chaos: Almost all rules undergo random changes. Rules are often adopted that bear little resemblance to poker’s original rules. This means rule changes like a combination of cards that looks like nothing but high cards being judged as a straight flush are possible, making it an extremely difficult game to predict the rules.

Because rules are generated randomly, they may seem nonsensical, but all games are generated within the scope of rules definable by this app. Refer to Chapter 5 and beyond for how users can define games. The number of possible rule combinations generated at each level is as follows:

1. Random Mild: Approximately 10,000 combinations
2. Random Moderate: Approximately 100 million combinations
3. Random Chaos: Approximately 1 trillion combinations

3. Economics Configuration

Poker games like Texas Hold’em can be broadly categorized into the following three types:

1. Ring Game
2. Sit & Go (Single Table Tournament)
3. MTT (Multi Table Tournament)

Ring Games are standard poker games where players compete purely to win more chips from other players, aiming to accumulate the largest stack. In this application, there is a cap on the amount of chips that can be won, making the goal to reach the cap faster (it is also possible to play almost limitlessly by setting a larger cap). Optimal strategies in poker vary significantly based on stack size and Ante, but you can play games with various settings.

Sit & Go is a game where the objective is to survive the longest without losing chips. Unlike Ring Games, the Blind values gradually increase over time. Consequently, the amount of chips you must compulsorily put in gradually increases, making survival progressively harder. The winner is determined when the last player remains, ending the game.

MTT involves running multiple Sit & Go tables simultaneously. As the number of surviving players decreases, tables merge to continue the game, repeating this process until the last player remains. Participation can range from dozens to thousands of players, making it a large-scale tournament-like game. This application only supports MTT in Multi Play mode; you cannot play MTT games from the Game button.

4. All-in or Fold (AOF)

This game features a distinctive rule: you can play All-in or Fold (AOF), where your choices are limited to either going All-in or folding. In All-in or Fold, losing once means losing all chips, so it’s typically a game format that doesn’t allow continuous play like a tournament. However, this game incorporates rule modifications to enable repeated play in an AOF format, similar to a tournament.

Specifically, it introduces the concept of a Bankroll alongside the Stack, allowing players to separate the Stack contributed to the AOF from the chips kept on hand. That is,

Bankroll = Stack in the table + Chips on hand

This represents the distinction between the Stack invested in a single AOF and the chips retained on hand. For example, in a tournament, losing an AOF and having your Stack reach 0 does not result in elimination; elimination occurs only when your Bankroll reaches 0. This allows for a format where repeated play is possible even in AOF. In AOF, the Bankroll is displayed as the player’s total chips instead of the Stack.

5. Player Configuration

Configure NPC opponents. You can specify table size and opponent tendencies (Loose or Tight, Aggressive or Passive). NPC tendencies can also be randomized to make their actions harder to predict, and you can specify information like NPC composition ratios. The main options are as follows:

1. Fix 6 TAG: Play against 6 Tight Aggressive (TAG) players.
2. Fix 6 LPA: Play against 6 Loose Passive (LPA) players.
3. Fix 9 Mixed: Play against 9 NPCs randomly assigned from 4 patterns: TAG, LAG, LPA, TPA.
4. Fix 6 Caller: Play against 6 opponents who always choose to Call.
5. Float Mixed: NPCs randomly leave and join, making the player count variable. NPCs of the four patterns (TAG, LAG, LPA, TPA) are randomly placed.

The game settings screen allows you to specify various configurations, such as changing the number of players joining the table or altering NPC behavior patterns. Refer to Chapter 5 and Chapter 7 for specific configuration methods.

6. Game Screen

When the game starts, the following screen appears.

Basic operation involves selecting one of the Action buttons on the right to proceed with the game. Action buttons can be selected from the Config screen. Pressing the Config button displays the following screen.

The Game Language setting allows you to configure the language displayed within the game screen (this can be set independently from the app’s overall language). Raise and Bet buttons can be selected and placed with different sizes. Up to 7 buttons can be selected. Settings are automatically saved when the screen is closed.

Pressing the Leave button ends the game and returns you to the menu screen. In a standard game, this immediately ends the game. In Multi Play mode, the connection to the server is terminated after one hand is completed, so please wait until the current hand ends.