# cli.poker

5 Hacker News commenters recommended cli.poker and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Multiplayer poker played over SSH with no client to install. Only one critical quote was available, and it reports a display bug when the window is resized.

## What people warn about

- Window resize clears hand results (1 comments): "I resized the window temporarily and lost the hand results/output section until I restarted the ssh cnxn" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927565))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "cli.poker", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cli-poker/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).