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### 1 - Is Poker Now open source?
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I love the idea of open source and I have a lot of OSS projects (https://github.com/samuelsimoes), but hardly Poker Now will be open source because of the value of it. Companies/People with money could easily get the code, rebrand it, and gather all the results of hours and hours coding at this.
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### 2 - When Poker Now started?
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The first version of Poker Now was deployed at 17/9/2017.
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### 3 - How many people are in the Poker Now development team?
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At this moment just me, @samuelsimoes
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### 4 - Poker Now will always be free?
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My main goal is offer Poker Now as a free product, without ads, directly on the browser and always without sign up process (except where I need sign up, like tournaments). You may ask about how I will cover the costs, I'm always focused to keep the app the more performant as possible to use cheap infrastructures, of course I think in monetize Poker Now, but I will try to do this most cleanly. Donations and this kind of things could help too and I will do more details about this in a second moment.
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### 5 - How well Poker Now shuffle the cards?
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We use the Mersenne Twister algorithm with a sequence of random seeds. Each game deck is a result of a shuffle of the last shuffled deck in Poker Now. When a card is placed on the table, the remaining deck is shuffled again. You can check the current shuffle logic in this example snippet https://repl.it/@samuelsimoes22/Shuffling-Statistics
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You can check the real current implementation used in the app here: https://gist.github.com/samuelsimoes/3234f552d732888c6b0e2f483de084f9
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You can read more about poker probabilities at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_probability#Frequency_of_5-card_poker_hands
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and you can read about the perception of the RNG algorithms and analysis sample:
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https://www.cardschat.com/f13/how-random-a-rng-96709/
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https://www.quora.com/Would-a-random-number-generator-be-more-or-less-random-than-me-just-randomly-saying-numbers-Why-or-why-not
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oNtmJaADQ-3zeZlcQLwvU0n7xpyPF5BLPG6LLWlsBPw
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:warning: **Please, if you "feel" that Poker Now is rigged, I want three things of you:**
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1 - Bring some quality data that bases what you are claiming, and please, 100 hands isn't a good window to analyze anything. If you don't have any data and just "feel", please don't waste the time that I don't have.
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2 - I am a solo developer here that does the code, the design, the support, keep the servers running and keep this comunity. It is a lot of work and I struggle to delivers all the features that a lot of people want. Do you really think that I will develop a sophisticated mechanism to help certain players without totally screw my reputation and the game?
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3 - If you really want to point something wrong at the logic YOU NEED TO INFORM THE ROOM LINK where you noticed something wrong, and you agree that you game log WILL BE EXPOSED TO ANYONE, or your post will be deleted in 10 minutes.
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### 6 - There is any way to do a donation to Poker Now?
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Absolutely. Just become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/poker_now (you can become a patron by just one month if you want). This money will be 100% reverted in infrastructure payments and in the case of we raise more money than costs, it will become money prizes in tournaments.
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You also can "buy me a coffee" at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pokernow
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### 7 - What is Stellar Lumens (XLM) and how I get it?
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Stellar Lumens (XLM) is a cryptocurrency like bitcoin, but much more simple and with very low transaction fees. Poker Now gives you the ability to play betting stellar lumens, like betting with real money. The Stellar network site is https://www.stellar.org/ You can buy Stellar Lumens like buying bitcoins. You can buy it in exchanges like https://www.coinbase.com, https://www.binance.com, and other exchanges.
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### 8 - Do I need Stellar Lumens (XLM) to play even for fun games?
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:point_right: Absolutely no. Just set the "chip price" to 0 xlm and you don't need any lumens on your account.
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### 9 - There's some place to follow the Poker Now roadmap/development?
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https://trello.com/b/m4sZ3pJ8/poker-now-development
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### 10 - When Poker Now will have the option to play with real money with other players in open lobbies?
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No time soon because host real cash games involving a lot of bureaucracy, and I don't have resources to endorse this right now (lawyers, open a company, etc)
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### 11 - Can I share my Discord Server/App/Site here in Poker Now Discord server?
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Please, ask me before through PM. Posting without talking with me, would lead to link deletion.
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### 12 - Can I change my https://network.pokernow.club/ (a.k.a tournaments) username?
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At this moment we don't allow change the username because players can exploit this, unless it has some typo. In this case you must send me a message asking fo the change.
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### 13 - Has Poker Now a mobile app?
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Currently we don't have, the only way to access is through the web browser and it is part of the DNA of Poker Now that is to make super easy to play, without need registering or downloads. I tried my best to make Poker Now looks a "regular" app at the browser window.
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Some people ask me if I will create an app, and I generally answer: why?
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### 14 - How works the Sit & Go tournament point system?
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At this document you can check how the current point system works https://gist.github.com/samuelsimoes/e77e9e377d95850d76c08c7c504086fd
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If you think the Poker Now should have a regular app, I want to listen to why your desire for a regular app.
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### 15 - How a table expires?
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When a table is inactive for 40 minutes, it expires. This is needed because I need to control the app load, because without it, the load is totally unpredictable.
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### 16 - I WANT TO PAY YOU A LOT OF MONEY FOR A TABLE, CAN YOU GET ME ONE?
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I am developing Poker Now and it can break, I don't want buyers at my ears trying to sue me when things go wrong. So I am not selling any kind of private access at this moment.
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### 17 - What is the Poker Now stack?
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Front-end just uses React.js. And in the back-end I use Node.js with Express and Socket.io.
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### 18 - How many players can sit at a table?
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10 players can sit at a table at a time! Although, you can have as many guests watching in the room at any time
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### 19 - How can I transfer ownership of my table?
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Tap the three lines at the top left of your screen (The Settings). Select players. Click edit on the desired player. Then select "Transfer Game Ownership". |
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