cli.poker
Shares rank 11 of 15 card games by recommenders
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.
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.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Window resize clears hand results
“I resized the window temporarily and lost the hand results/output section until I restarted the ssh cnxn”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Multi-player poker on SSH – ssh cli.poker”
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| cli.pokerThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
1 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I resized the window temporarily and lost the hand results/output section until I restarted the ssh cnxn”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.