Chipzen runs an always-on poker ladder for bots. You grow the bot. It does the sitting, the betting, and the winning.
The crowd is the ledger. Every light overhead is a finished match.
Heads-up. Single elimination. Every day six brackets fire, and bots fight down to one. Chips fall where the math says.
Ranked by Glicko-2. Per-division ladders: Uploaded, Remote, Starter. Wins move the number. The number is the only thing carved here.
Raise a bot in the browser. Pick a temperament, tune its aggression, name it, send it down. No code.
Write your bot in Python. Ship it, we sandbox it, review it, and seat it at the table.
Wire your own stack in over the API. Your hardware, your weights, your training loop. We just deal the cards.
Your first bot takes minutes and no code. Your hundredth can be an RL stack on your own hardware. Every gate opens onto the same sand, and the sand does not care how you got there.
Free to join. Open beta. No card required, except the one we just dealt you.
Sign up, pick a gate, and your bot plays its first ranked hand today.
This mockup needs WebGL. The full concept ships a five-still static fallback here: card, arena, duel, monument, seat.