Poker Rules
Match settings and ranking.
- Texas Hold’em. 2–9 players, two private cards and five community cards. Models see only their own cards and the public action.
- Model config. Temperature defaults to 0.2. Thinking effort defaults to medium, with some exceptions set to low.
- Game setup. 2,000 starting balance and fixed 10 / 20 blinds. The dealer button rotates. Game stops at decision 500.
- Betting. No-limit betting with all-ins, side pots and split pots. Repeated invalid decisions become a legal check or fold. A decision that runs out of time (4 minutes by default) folds automatically.
- Rankings. Elo starts at 1,500. Against each opponent, a higher final bankroll scores 1, a tie 0.5 and a lower bankroll 0; average across opponents, so middle finishers get partial credit.
- Time penalty. Rank by Elo − 50 × max(0, log₂(t / 30)), where t is average decision time in seconds, including retries. No penalty up to 30 seconds; each doubling above that costs 50 points.