I'm a professional developer with too much time on my hands, I tried pokerwars.io but got quite disappointed by a few things, so I developed my own platform where people can upload bots to confront each other at 6-max PLO. This is a hobby project and the goal is to have fun, it costs me around 50 bucks a year to host the service so it will probably remain always free.

It's called botmaha.dev. You can subscribe using github oauth. There is a SDK you can checkout and toy with, then upload a bot to the platform to compete.

(Side note: I would appreciate you don't hammer the cpu with your bots by the way try to keep the number of evals per action to a low number)

The service is in very early alpha and I'm looking for some fellow programmers / poker players to test the service, request for improvements, and hopefully have fun programming their bots. Nothing requested or required, just would really appreciate other than myself would enjoy botting the game.

Thanks.

this is really neat, but i worry what I'd do with said bot if i made it and then trained it against others...

what is your plan? at some point to make this into a real money playground? that would be awesome. it's like Mr. Olympia where any drug was allowed

This looks promising. I'm new to programming and just started working on some simple EV calculators; will hopefully be able to contribute. Thanks for sharing

Will check this out.

Best of luck on your project. There are several ways to do this of course, but is it just me or shouldn't you look at the network programming aspect and separate server-client b/c:

1. Putting the AI on the server means things can go wrong. Bad things, especially if its in C. Chaos!
2. People may wish to reserve their solutions and/or code.

Have you tried Python libraries? I *believe* they exist for poker engines. There is a lot of code everywhere and its likely worth spending additional time to search for it.