No-Limit Texas Hold’em

Your move.

“In many ways, the poker game we always deserved.”

The game

Poker night. Your rules.

Create a private table for 2 to 10 players, or fill the open seats with bots. One player hosts and the others connect directly to their table. Set the blinds, buy-ins and rebuys, then save the setup for next time.

Pure P2P. No accounts or central servers.

No-Limit Hold’em table with the board, chip stacks and betting controls — In-game screenshotNo-Limit Hold’em

Mental Poker

Everyone shuffles. Everyone verifies.

At a physical table, you can watch the dealer shuffle. In CoronaPoker, every human player helps shuffle and protect the deck, including the host. Everyone can check the deal while other players’ cards stay private. That’s Mental Poker.

How Mental Poker worksIllustration with three players

Shuffle and lock

Alice hosts the game and starts with a deck in a known order. She locks and secretly rearranges all 52 cards. Bob receives a deck that’s already encrypted, so he can move the cards without reading them. He adds his own lock to each card. You repeat the process with both layers still in place.

What if the host leaves the deck in its original order?

The host knows the starting order. Once even one other player secretly shuffles the encrypted cards, the host loses track of where they went. Starting the shuffle gives the host no way to predict the final order.

AliceHost
Bob
You

52 face-down cards

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Alice starts with the 52 cards in a known order. The demo shows them face down.
Bob receives 52 cards with Alice’s lock already on each one.
You receive 52 cards with both Alice and Bob’s locks on them.
The deck returns to the host. All 52 cards now have three locks, and no single player knows the final order.

Check the shuffle

Each player’s computer verifies a mathematical proof that every shuffle kept the same 52 cards exactly once. The proof keeps the new order secret. If verification fails, the community cards stay sealed.

Same 52 cards
No copies or substitutions
Order stays secret

Each player checks the proof

Alice Bob You

Reveal at the right time

Your private cards keep their original locks. Before the deal, each player replaces their locks on the community cards with a separate set. As betting progresses, all three players help unlock just the cards that are due to turn over.

Your cardsOnly you can see these

Community cards

Flop

Turn

River

Your two cards start face down, with a lock from Alice, Bob and you. The community cards have their own set of locks.
Alice removes her layer of encryption. Your cards are still sealed by Bob’s lock and yours.
Bob removes his layer. Your cards reach your computer with only your own lock left.
Your computer opens the last lock locally. Only you can see the ace and queen of spades.
Preflop betting is over. Alice, Bob and you release your locks on the flop. Those three cards are now public. The turn and river stay locked.
Flop betting is over. All three players release their locks on the turn. The river still has all three locks.
Turn betting is over. All three players release their locks on the river. Everyone can now see all five community cards.

Under the hood

CoronaPoker implements commutative SRA encryption over Ristretto255, Bayer–Groth zero-knowledge proofs for the shuffle and chained DLEQ proofs for the deal. The host coordinates the game. Players verify the proofs independently.

Read the security specification

Configurable opponents

A different read on every seat.

Fill the table with opponents that play tight, call often or put you under pressure. Choose Easy, Normal or Hard for each custom bot and give it a name, a face and a style of its own.

NIT: Tight
STATION: Call-heavy
TAG: Tight-aggressive
LAG: Loose-aggressive

Explore the bot engine

Bot catalogue with difficulty, playing style and rebuy settings — In-game screenshotBot manager

Features

Make it your poker night.

Fine-tune the rules, play with friends and study your sessions. The game interface is available in 30 languages.

Table rules

Set the pace.

Blinds and buy-ins: Set your blind schedule, starting stacks and rebuys. Save the setup as a preset for the next game.
Antes and straddles: Add an ante or let the first player to act post a voluntary straddle before seeing their cards.
Run it twice: On an all-in with several players, the players involved can agree to deal the remaining board twice and split the pots between the two boards.
Side pots and split pots: Players can win the pots they contributed to. If a split leaves an odd cent, it rolls over into the next hand.
Rabbit Hunting and hand rankings: See which community cards would have come next when a hand ends early, or use the hand generator to learn poker rankings.

Poker rules

A completed hand at a large table with pot and showdown results — In-game screenshotShowdown

Stats and history

Revisit the hand.

Hand history: Review the cards, positions, actions and showdown results of recorded hands.
Session analysis: Compare players and sessions, follow your chip balance and explore starting-hand and position heatmaps.
Offline dashboard: Filter by game, player or date, and exclude bot results when you want to focus on human play.
Live log and local history: See actions and pot amounts as the hand plays out. Completed hands are stored locally so you can review them later.
Optional sharing: Exchange completed games directly with other players. Sharing and receiving are both off by default.

See the statistics guide

Chip balance over time

Illustration with sample data

Look and controls

Make the table feel right.

Cards and felt: Choose the deck, card backs, felt and table lighting.
Sound and controls: Adjust game sounds, mute voices or remap the controls you use at the table.
MOD packs: Use a custom pack to replace decks, sounds or all-in animations.
Display and effects: Play in a window or fullscreen. Dim the table for late sessions and choose which animations and effects to show.
Fast decisions: Queue a check or fold, cap an automatic call, or ask for confirmation before committing to a move.

MOD packs

Appearance options for felt, card backs and table lighting — In-game screenshotTable appearance

Poker videos

Watch at the table.

YouTube and Shorts: Open the poker video player from the main menu, the waiting room or the live table.
Carousel and favorites: Browse regular videos or Shorts and save your favorites from both formats.
A window you can move: Resize the player, set its opacity or minimize it while you play.

See the video player guide

The waiting room with the poker video player open in the lower-right corner — In-game screenshotPoker video player

30 languages

Play in your language.

30 interface languages: Choose your language in the main menu. CoronaPoker remembers it for next time and uses your system language on first launch when supported.
More than the menus: The statistics dashboard, image and GIF gallery, video player messages and PDF viewer controls follow the selected language.
Poker rules in English and Spanish: Open Robert’s Rules of Poker in either language. Both versions are included with the game.

Game interface languages

Around the table

Open a screenshot to see the game at full size.

Waiting room with chat, game settings and the player list — Waiting room

Zero-Trust dialog reporting conflicting hand verification — Hand verification

Free and open source

Deal yourself in.

Pick your platform. The Windows installer, portable builds and checksums are on GitHub Releases.

Windowsx64Setup includes Java. A portable JAR is also available.Latest release macOSApple Silicon / IntelDownload the JAR for your Mac and run it with Java 17 or newer.Latest release Linuxx64 / ARM64Download the JAR for your architecture and run it with Java 17 or newer.Latest release

GPL v3

Open source since 2020.

Created by tonikelope for poker nights with friends. Read how it works, build it yourself or contribute. The game is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.

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