Welcome to the GraphicalPokerClient help.



The graphical poker client is designed to work with the benchmark server, which at present is available only to past competitors from last year. For more information about last year's competition, see the web site.

In order to run this code, one must have a bot that works with the AAAI Computer Poker Competition protocol. This code allows bots on a local machine to play bots on the benchmark server for those who have an account.

There are three steps to making this connection:
  1. Create bots
  2. Login
  3. Create matches

Creating Bots

Bots may be created from the "Manage Local Bots" dialog. These bots will run locally given a pointer to a startme.bat file.

What is a Bot?

For the purposes of this application, a bot is a name and a directory. The bot name will appear in all log files returned by the server, so it is highly recommended to give different versions of the same bot different names! The directory is specified by clicking on a particular