Going All-In with PokerTH | Linux Today

Going All-In with PokerTH

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 30, 2007

“According to Wikipedia, Texas Hold’em is ‘the most popular
poker variant played in casinos in the United States.’ With the
GPL-licensed multiplatform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X) PokerTH, you
can play Texas Hold’em against up to six computer opponents on your
desktop, or you can join an Internet server and play against other
real players.

“If PokerTH is not available as a package for your distro, you
can download either the source or executable version of game from
the project page on SourceForge.net. While still pre-1.0, PokerTH
is far enough along in development to be included as a standard
offering in openSUSE, Ubuntu 7.10, and other distros…”

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Related Story:
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Poker.com Announces Linux Deployment
(Dec 24, 1999)

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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