Chinese Poker Showdown

Chinese Poker — arrange thirteen cards into three poker hands and play them against three AI opponents. The classic open-face split-hand game, polished for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Your 13 cards go into a back row (five cards, must be the strongest), a middle row (five), and a front row (three, must be the weakest). At showdown you score row-by-row against each opponent — one point per row you win, plus a scoop bonus for winning all three rows against the same player. A "fouled" arrangement loses every comparison automatically.

Three AI opponents with distinct personalities:

• Awesomo — plays the mathematically optimal expected-value line. Use him as the yardstick. • Bender — back-loading scoop chaser. Will sacrifice the front to stack a strong back and chase the +3 bonus. • HAL — cautious pair-in-front specialist. Plays it safe and waits for your mistakes.

The bots are powered by a trained neural network — a tiny ~66 KB MLP that captures the win probability of every legal hand from billions of simulated games. Same gameplay strength as the classical 10 MB lookup table, twenty-five times smaller, no perceptible difference at the table.

Track your skill against the optimal play. The Player page also breaks out your record against each bot individually: wins, losses, ties, and cumulative net.

Features: • Three distinct AI personalities, each producing visibly different play • Skill scoring against the EV-optimal benchmark • Per-opponent W/L/T history • Optional hint button (off by default — flip it on in Settings if you want a nudge) • Standard 1-6 + scoop scoring, with the scoop bonus adjustable from 0 to 10 • Four-color or two-color card mode

Privacy: No accounts. No analytics. No ads. No in-app purchases. No network calls of any kind. Nothing leaves your device.

Free, full game.

Sounds: Kenney's Casino Audio (CC0) and Pixabay contributors (Dragon Studio, freesound_community).