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Offsuit - the minimal beautiful poker app with AI opponents that works offline

Link: Offsuit

I am obsessed with this new poker app I first heard about on the Installer newsletter. Unlike the scammy, ad-ridden, old school poker apps, this is beautiful and minimal while being exceptionally fast and entirely offline. Simple betting mechanics, leaderboards, competent opponents and tournaments make this addictive and compelling.

The AI is smarter than other opponents in that they use Game Theory Optimization (GTO) to bet more intelligently pre- and post-flop. Combined with the unique way of doing tournaments (where you play against AI, but your aggregate score is compared against other players), there's a reason to keep coming back to the app outside of your own wins.

Having spoken with the developer, I'm also excited about the roadmap which should soon include multiplayer games, improved stats and more learning tutorials for beginners and poker trainers. The founding team is extremely responsive to feedback and is eager to make poker an approachable software product rather than a game. They see poker like investing and that involves research, strategy, money and risk. They've started with the goal of building the best free poker app out there, but we have a loftier goal of changing the poker industry - one that has struggled with credibility issues, a steep learning curve, and hasn't been redesigned since the 90s.