What is IRC poker and how can I play?
Oct 2003 status: IRC poker is offline while it is in search for a new home. Since it looks likely to never find one, this section is here only for historical interest. IRC poker is a real-time network poker game that allows people from around the world to play poker with each other via the Internet. The stakes are “etherbucks”, which is to say imaginary. Each player’s imaginary bankroll is recorded from session to session, and rankings of both bankroll and earning rate inspire competitiveness. An automatic program serves as the dealer and controls the action. World Wide Web users can find out more about the dealer program by looking at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/mummert/ircbot.html. The game uses the Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, to arrange communications amongst the players and with the dealer. IRC is normally a sort of global cocktail party, with several thousand people from around the globe engaged in small pockets of conversation on various “channels”. Within each channel, anyth
