allenfrostline/poker

Poker: A Simple Poker GUI in Python

Poker

This is a simple Texas Hold 'em game running on MacOS. All scripts are written in pure Python. The main GUI is written using the Python module PySimpleGUI, and hand evaluation is done by refering to a hand value table pre-calculated together with Monte Carlo simulation. See here for detailed explanation of hand evaluation. Together with the GUI version, I also include here a primitive commmandline version with ColorPrint support, which you may download and include from this repo. The two versions are supposed to work identically.

Usage

You don't need any Python or module dependencies installed on your Mac in order to just play the game. The app itself is standalone with everything packed inside it already. There're just two steps:

1. Download the app from here.
2. Double click it.

Or rather, if you'd like to pack it yourself:

1. Download this repo.
2. Pack it using PyInstaller in --onefile mode.
3. Double click the app you just generated.

To-Do's

There're several things to work on in plan:

• Fix bugs (please, don't again).

• Write up AI agents of different strategies (in progress):

  • Expected hand value optimization (Greedy);
  • Game theory optimal (GTO);
  • Evolutionary algorithm (EA);
  • Deep Q-Learning (DQN).

• Build a server-based version so multiple people can play on different divices.

• Build an Android version (proposed by author of PySimpleGUI, MikeTheWatchGuy).

• Fix GUI problems:

  • Resolution of image is extremely low and it looks ugly on Retina screens.
  • Button styles and other design-related issues.

Known Bugs

Here are some bugs I'm trying to fix:

• Side pot. It's tricky and I havn't found a way to implement it simple.
• Side pot. It's tricky and I havn't found a way to implement it simple.
• Freeze at start. The app starts and then freezes for a sec. This is because Python is openning the hand value table. Perhaps I should try threading for this particular task (no need for the rest of the game). I'll also try to compress the table in a better way (like functionize it). Working on the animated Popup element in PySimpleGUI.

Acknowledgement

I appreciate suggestions and encourage from anyone throughout the development (which may still continue for a long time, considering the considerable time I spent just on writing this primitive game). Special thanks to my friends who ever tried to play the game and found bugs starting from the commmandline version. Also, credit for MikeTheWatchGuy who wrote the PySimpleGUI module and helped me fix several bugs. Also, credit to Freepik from www.flaticon.com, who made this fantastic icon. Finally, I wanna give credit to myself for the nights I stayed up after lectures. There is nothing more fulfilling than realizing an impulse right away.

poker's Issues

[Enhancement] Proving user feedback during the "Freeze" portion

Mentioned in the readme was:

Freeze at start. The app starts and then freezes for a sec. This is because Python is openning the hand value table. Perhaps I should try threading for this particular task (no need for the rest of the game). I'll also try to compress the table in a better way (like functionize it).

There are a couple of things you can do so that it doesn't look like it's frozen.

1. Show a progress bar while it's loading, providing an update on when it'll finish
2. Show an animated "loading" GIF while loading

Both require you to make periodic calls into PySimpleGUI while you're doing your lengthy operation, so it will require some integrating of this part of your code with the GUI module.

Both methods can be done with a single line of code added to your code. If you your the animated Popup call then you only need that one line and you can use the Single Line Progress Meter call for a progress meter.

Of course you can do your own fancier stuff too.

Requesting requirements.txt file

Hi,

I'm quite interested in your project, would you mind uploading the requirements.txt file? That would be a huge help.

Thanks in advance

Game config screen cutoff or fields missing?

On this screen, it looks like something is being cut off:

There is also no way to "exit" that screen (by closing window or an Exit button).

Crash when starting....

When running poker_gui.py, the file I assume you run to start playing, it crashes with this traceback:

C:\Python\Anaconda3\python.exe C:/Python/PycharmProjects/GitHub/Poker/poker_gui.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python/PycharmProjects/GitHub/Poker/poker_gui.py", line 523, in <module>
    g = Game(n_players=9, buy_in=10, seed='random')
  File "C:/Python/PycharmProjects/GitHub/Poker/poker_gui.py", line 42, in __init__
    self.__welcome()
  File "C:/Python/PycharmProjects/GitHub/Poker/poker_gui.py", line 68, in __welcome
    with absOpen('hv.json', 'r') as f: self.__hv = json.load(f)
  File "C:\Python\PycharmProjects\GitHub\Poker\misc.py", line 331, in absOpen
    return open(absPath(name), mode=mode, buffering=1)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Python\\PycharmProjects\\GitHub\\Poker\\hv.json'

Windows 10 + Conda = Issue

I looked at sources, and tried to uninstall and re-install matplotlib with conda, but it still did not work.

I am simply going to use Linux for now, but this is an issue that should be fixed. Maybe this belongs in Anaconda + MatPlotLib as well.

(base) PS C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\Poker-master\Poker-master> python poker_gui.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\tkagg.py", line 27, in blit
dataptr, colormode, bboxptr)
_tkinter.TclError: invalid command name "PyAggImagePhoto"

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "poker_gui.py", line 523, in
g = Game(n_players=9, buy_in=10, seed='random')
File "poker_gui.py", line 44, in init
self.__newGame()
File "poker_gui.py", line 191, in __newGame
self.__newRound(blind=True)
File "poker_gui.py", line 295, in __newRound
bet = self.__bet(i, n_round, blind)
File "poker_gui.py", line 441, in __bet
_ = drawFigure(window.FindElement('CANVAS').TKCanvas, fig)
File "C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\Poker-master\Poker-master\misc.py", line 478, in drawFigure
tkagg.blit(photo, figure_canvas_agg.get_renderer()._renderer, colormode=2)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\tkagg.py", line 28, in blit
except tk.TclError:
AttributeError: '_tkinter.tkapp' object has no attribute 'TclError'

Missing Window Icon + not sure how to play

When I see the window, I see the default tkinter icon.

After I see this screen, I don't seem to be able to do anything, at least nothing I click seems to do anything. I'll read through the code a bit and see what I'm missing.