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Notes from the table — what shipped, what changed, and the occasional hand worth talking about.
28 August 2026
Five things pokersolver does that its README does not mention
Its cards array can hand you seven cards for a five-card hand, an ace playing low comes back with the value 1, and a royal flush is named “Straight Flush”. Each one with the input that produces it.
24 August 2026
Everything we have published that was wrong
Seven false claims we shipped, what each one said, how long it served, how we found it, and the test that now fails if it comes back. One of them is still wrong.
20 August 2026
Verify today’s deal yourself
Everyone playing the Daily gets the same shuffle. Here are the six steps that produce it, a snippet that runs anywhere, and one day’s deck to check yourself against.
4 August 2026
Two devices, two chip counts
Pip now has an optional account that carries your progress to a second device. The interesting part isn’t the sign-in, it’s what happens when both devices have been played.
26 July 2026
Pip, for readers who aren’t people
Every content page now answers Accept: text/markdown with its plain text version — a free-plan build of what Cloudflare offers as Markdown for Agents, in about ninety lines.
25 July 2026
Launch week: what shipped
A new card back, four more hand nicknames, a quicker freeroll, and three strangers in the credits — everything that changed in Pip’s first days in the open.
25 July 2026
Pip is live, and it’s open source
Single-player Texas Hold’em with no account needed, no ads, and no real money — now live at playpip.io, with the whole codebase in the open.
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