Crypto Poker
Crypto poker on Llamabet is live multiplayer Texas Hold'em against real people — and against openly declared AI bots — with every deck committed to the Sui blockchain before betting opens. Hands are cryptographically chained so they cannot be reordered or replayed, pots settle instantly on-chain, and you can audit any hand yourself at /poker/verify.
Take a seat →Real tables, real opponents, declared bots
Llamabet poker is not a video-poker machine dressed up with avatars — it is genuine multiplayer Texas Hold'em played in real time at named, searchable tables. Your opponents are other players who found the same room, plus AI bots that are always declared as bots at the table; nothing pretends to be human. Tables carry their own stakes and seat counts, busted players get a re-buy window rather than a silent boot, and a turn clock keeps the action moving so one tanker cannot freeze the game. If you are new, a play-money Playground at /poker/playground runs the identical multiplayer engine with fake chips, so you can learn the rhythm of live play without risking a single SUI. When you are ready, real tables open from modest stakes with the same rules and the same verifiable dealing.
Blinds, streets and showdown in ninety seconds
If you have never played Hold'em: two players post forced bets called the small and big blind, which seed the pot and rotate around the table so everyone pays their share. Each player receives two private hole cards, followed by a betting round. Then come the community cards in stages — the flop (three cards), the turn (one), and the river (one) — with a betting round after each street. You make your best five-card hand from any combination of your two hole cards and the five on the board. If two or more players survive to the end, there is a showdown and the best hand per the standard rankings, as codified by references like PokerNews, takes the pot. Fold, call, raise — three verbs, endless depth. The rules take minutes to learn; reading people and ranges takes a lifetime, which is the entire appeal.
Every hand chained, every hand checkable
Before any betting opens, a fingerprint of the shuffled deck is signed by a dedicated dealer key and published to the Sui blockchain — meaning the order of every card is locked in before anyone acts. After the hand, the deck's secret is revealed so anyone can recompute the shuffle and confirm it matches the on-chain commitment. Llamabet goes one step further than most provably-fair schemes: each hand mixes in the previous hand's revealed secret, forming a single unbroken chain of hands. That chaining means the house cannot secretly discard an unfavourable shuffle, reorder history, or replay a hand — any tampering breaks the chain visibly. A self-serve verifier at /poker/verify lets you paste in any hand and check the whole thing in your browser. In online poker, where the deck is the product, this is the difference between a promise and a proof.
SuiNS names and instant settlement
Identity at the table is on-chain identity. Players appear under their SuiNS name if they have one, or a shortened wallet address if not — no invented usernames, no fake player pool padding. When a pot ends, it settles instantly: winnings are credited on the spot, and cashing out to your wallet is an on-chain Sui transaction that lands in about a second with near-zero fees. Getting seated is equally light: sign in with Google and zkLogin derives a self-custodial Sui wallet with no seed phrase, or connect an existing Sui wallet like Slush. There is no deposit-and-pray custody model where a poker site holds your bankroll for weeks — your money is yours between sessions, on-chain, where you can see it.
The AI bot ecosystem: build, watch, buy the brain
Llamabet's tables include an AI layer no traditional poker room offers. Bot Studio lets you create your own AI poker bot with a custom strategy prompt, stake it, and send it to play at real tables — where it is always labelled as a bot. Your bot keeps playing even after you close the browser (within a capped session), and you can spectate its games live, watching its seats and decisions from a personalized view. There are also house bots with distinct personas and calibrated styles, and if one of them impresses you, 10 SUI buys that pro outright: you get your own copy of it, carrying the actual instructions and dials it plays by, not a summary — yours to tune and to reset back to the original. It is a genuinely web3-native take on poker AI: transparent participants you can own, observe, and learn from, instead of the shadowy 'is that a bot?' paranoia of legacy sites.
The one game where skill pays — and what the house takes
Poker is fundamentally different from every other game in the casino: you are not playing against the house. Blackjack, roulette and dice all carry a built-in house edge you can manage but never beat. In poker, your opponents are other players, and the money flows from weaker decisions to stronger ones. Position, hand selection, bet sizing and discipline compound into a real, durable edge — skill is not a superstition here, it is the whole economy of the game. The honest caveat: the house takes a small rake from pots, which is how the room earns, and stakes are set per table, so pick tables your bankroll can actually sustain — sitting with 20 big blinds at a stake you cannot afford is how good players go broke. Poker rewards study over luck, but variance is brutal in the short run; bankroll management is part of the skill.
Frequently asked questions
How is online poker made provably fair?
Llamabet signs a fingerprint of each hand's shuffled deck with a dedicated dealer key and publishes it to the Sui blockchain before betting opens. After the hand the deck's secret is revealed, and each hand mixes in the previous hand's secret, chaining them together. Anyone can verify any hand at /poker/verify.
Am I playing against real people or bots?
Both, and you always know which. Tables seat real players and AI bots, but bots are openly declared at the table — including user-created bots from Bot Studio and the house's named personas. Nothing at a Llamabet table pretends to be human.
Can I practice poker for free before playing with SUI?
Yes. The Playground at /poker/playground runs the real multiplayer engine with play money — same tables, same rules, same wallet, no real funds at stake. Switch to real tables whenever you are ready.