Play against bots

A live table. The reader has one seat; pkcore's bots play the rest. When a hand ends, the next one is dealt. This one is The Hand's table at the broadcast's stakes, with the reader in Negreanu's seat.

What you need

• No hand history. The config says who sits where.
• A web server. The table does not run from a file:// page.

Step 1: load the element

Put this line in the page once. Every table on the page shares it.

<script type="module" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@imperialbower/bowery@0.3.0/bowery.js"></script>

To host it yourself, unpack bowery-vX.Y.Z.tar.gz from a release into a folder, for example bowery/, and load bowery/bowery.js instead. The element loads its wasm from the same folder.

Step 2: write the config

Save this as the-hand-play.yaml. It is the whole file.

# The Hand's table in play mode: the eight players at the broadcast's
# $300/$600 with a $100 ante, the reader in Negreanu's seat, seven bots.
mode: play
seat: 4
layout: ring
table: { seats: 8, button: 0, stakes: { small_blind: 300.0, big_blind: 600.0, ante: 100.0 } }
players:
  - { seat: 0, name: Doyle Brunson, stack: 100000, bot: tight_aggressive }
  - { seat: 1, name: Eli Elezra, stack: 100000, bot: loose_passive }
  - { seat: 2, name: Antonio Esfandiari, stack: 100000, bot: loose_aggressive }
  - { seat: 3, name: Gus Hansen, stack: 287100, bot: maniac }
  - { seat: 4, name: Daniel Negreanu, stack: 387100 }
  - { seat: 5, name: Cory Zeidman, stack: 100000, bot: tight_passive }
  - { seat: 6, name: Barry Greenstein, stack: 100000, bot: gto }
  - { seat: 7, name: Amnon Filippi, stack: 100000, bot: abc }
delay_ms: 500

• seat: 4 is the reader. Their player has no bot. Seats count from 0.
• table sets the chairs, the button and the stakes. Blinds and ante are whole chips.
• Each player has a seat, a stack and, but for the reader, a bot. The name is optional.
• delay_ms is the time between bot moves.

Step 3: put the table in the page

<bowery-table src="the-hand-play.yaml">
  <img src="the-hand-play.svg" alt="The table before the first hand.">
</bowery-table>

• src is the config file. It must be on the same site as the page.
• What you put inside the element is the fallback. The reader sees it until the table is ready, and keeps it if JavaScript is off.
• If you host the element yourself in another folder, add base="bowery/".

To make a still picture for the fallback, run this in a clone of bowery:

cargo run --example bowery-still -- the-hand-play.yaml --view all > the-hand-play.svg

Step 4: serve the page

python3 -m http.server 8000

The bots

A bot is one of pkcore's profiles:

abc, gto, loose_aggressive, loose_passive, maniac, short_stack_ninja, tight_aggressive, tight_passive.

A player with no bot who is not the reader is played by gto.

Win percents

% shows every live seat's win percent, and with two seats left and one card to come, the trailing seat's outs; it is only there when every card is up. Play mode starts with odds off: the bots run on a timer, and a nine-way preflop step is a second of Monte Carlo in the browser. The reader turns them on with %, which is there when the config says view: all. The preflop percent is sampled, so it may differ from the figure bowery-still --odds prints.

Settings you can change

Every field: Config on docs.rs.

Events

When a hand ends, the table sends bowery:hand-over:

document.addEventListener('bowery:hand-over', (event) => {
  console.log(event.target.id, 'hand over', event.detail.result);
});

This page's events: