Tonopah - open source poker engine - looking for business partners

[limikael]

So, today is the day when I let my little creation see the light of day. It is a poker engine, and I have set up a test and demo page for it here:

https://tonopahpoker.com/

The main features:

- It supports deposits and withdrawals in Bitcoin and Lightning Network.
- Both cash games and tournaments are supported.
- It has a WordPress plugin, so administration and content creation for a poker site is easy and straight forward.

I'm a programmer and would love to continue focusing on this... Looking for fellow entrepreneurs who have experience with marketing, PR and such and would like to team up and get a poker site going!

[dkbit98]

Do you have any open source link on github or similar websites to confirm your claims, and is your Tonopah poker only working with Bitcoin Testnet at the moment?

I think that How to play section needs to be updated with some instructions because currently it only shows bla bla bla…  

[limikael]

Do you have any open source link on github or similar websites to confirm your claims, and is your Tonopah poker only working with Bitcoin Testnet at the moment?

I think that How to play section needs to be updated with some instructions because currently it only shows bla bla bla…  

The GihHub link is under download, here: https://tonopahpoker.com/downloads/ And here is the link directly to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/limikael/tonopah

Yeah, a lot needs to be updated! As you can see, the GitHub page says "Documentation and such should be here... It just needs to be written first... "... I'm not in my comfort zone when it comes to writing text for humans... I would rather write 1000 lines of programming code than one sentence of text to explain things...

The way that I have set up and installed things on tonopahpoker.com it only works with Testnet. This is mainly for legal reasons, since I'm developing this software under my own name and I don't have a gambling license. If I would accept real bitcoin there I would effectively be running a gambling site, which is not legal. Testnet coins have no value, so it should be legal. Tonopahpoker.com is NOT a poker site, it is a page to provide information about the software.

[dkbit98]

The GihHub link is under download, here: https://tonopahpoker.com/downloads/ And here is the link directly to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/limikael/tonopah

Yeah I see that now but maybe you should also add the link directly on main page.

I'm not in my comfort zone when it comes to writing text for humans... I would rather write 1000 lines of programming code than one sentence of text to explain things...

I totally understand you, and maybe you should hire someone to write everything you need and improve your website.

The way that I have set up and installed things on tonopahpoker.com it only works with Testnet. This is mainly for legal reasons, since I'm developing this software under my own name and I don't have a gambling license. If I would accept real bitcoin there I would effectively be running a gambling site, which is not legal. Testnet coins have no value, so it should be legal.

I understand.
So you are actually looking for investors and hoping that someone will support you and use your software on their gambling website?

[limikael]

So you are actually looking for investors and hoping that someone will support you and use your software on their gambling website?

Yep, exactly. I will be able to provide the service of customising, installing the software and keeping it running smoothly on their servers.

[AnoniX1]

I'm really a big poker fan since around 15 years with a lot of experience live and online. I like these projects, but to make a good and safe software is extrem complicated. Even if you have a smooth software, once real money goes over the tables, your biggest problem will be cheat software/bots.

[robelneo]

So, today is the day when I let my little creation see the light of day. It is a poker engine, and I have set up a test and demo page for it here:

https://tonopahpoker.com/

The main features:

- It supports deposits and withdrawals in Bitcoin and Lightning Network.
- Both cash games and tournaments are supported.
- It has a WordPress plugin, so administration and content creation for a poker site is easy and straight forward.

I'm a programmer and would love to continue focusing on this... Looking for fellow entrepreneurs who have experience with marketing, PR and such and would like to team up and get a poker site going!

Since it is created using a WordPress, you should hide or disable the login page to avoid intrusion, it's showing here
https://tonopahpoker.com/wp-login.php, the design is very bland there are thousands of themes there but if you are good in coding you can customize it, anyway good luck with your venture.

[limikael]

Hello hello!

Bumping this this thread because I want to announce my installation guide:

https://tonopahpoker.com/installation/

It explains how to set up the poker game on your WordPress site.

Would love some feedback!

Cheers!

[AnoniX1]

So you are actually looking for investors and hoping that someone will support you and use your software on their gambling website?

Yep, exactly. I will be able to provide the service of customising, installing the software and keeping it running smoothly on their servers.

Why not making an own pokerroom?

[limikael]

Why not making an own pokerroom?

Maybe I should! But there is a lot of work required in order to actually run a pokerroom, in terms of marketing, PR, copy writing, communication and such. This is not really my expertise. You can see, for example, that in the 12 years that I have been a member of this forum, I have made a total of 58 posts including this one. Other members have made thousands of posts, so I think that there are other people who are more passionate about communication than I am. Would prefer to team up with such a person. Do you know anyone?