Indiana Poker Programming Contest Computers Playing Poker

2010 Contest Information Now Online

It's here! The rules, software, and documentation you'll need for the 2010 Indiana Poker Programming Contest are now online.  You should probably read the rules first, and then read each of the three parts of the documentation.  The documentation will get you started with using ACPC's poker server and writing your own poker bots.

The Annual Computer Poker Competition server was released only days ago, so it's been a challenge to get it customized and documented for you.  We'll be expanding the amount of sample code and documentation in the next few weeks so that it'll be easier to hit the ground running.  The ACPC software is also very new, so we'll notify you of updates upstream as we hear about them.

We hope that you can get comfortable with the software fairly quickly, leaving you the rest of the summer until August 14 to focus on the logic of the bot itself.  As always, if you have any questions or find any mistakes in our code or documentation, contact us using the contact form and we'll reply quickly.  If you haven't already, sign up for email updates of these announcements using the form on the right-hand menu.

Good luck!