The short version
A functional, honestly simple heads-up Texas Hold'em against a bot, entirely and reliably button-driven with no drag or hover requirements at any point. Played through a complete hand end to end - deal, call, flop, turn, river, and a real showdown with correctly kicker-based tie-breaking - confirming both the betting flow and the hand evaluator work correctly on both desktop and touch.
Biggest strengths
- Controls confirmed genuinely reliable on both platforms - every action (call, check, bet, fold, and advancing through each betting round) is a plain button click, confirmed working identically via real touch taps on a simulated phone and mouse clicks on desktop, with no drag, hover, or precision-tap requirements anywhere
- The hand evaluator was verified correct on a real showdown, not just assumed - both hands were fully revealed with a genuine two-pair-vs-two-pair tie-breaking scenario, and the game correctly identified the higher kicker (a King) as the winner
- Chip and pot tracking update correctly and immediately after every action, confirmed by watching exact amounts change in step with real clicks
Biggest weaknesses
- The entire interface is in Italian only, with no language toggle found in the source - a real accessibility barrier for non-Italian speakers, though the card values, numbers, and button layout remain learnable through repetition
- No sound of any kind - confirmed by the complete absence of any audio code in the source
- A fairly plain, single-opponent heads-up format with simple bot logic (auto-call) rather than a fuller table or a more strategic AI
Who it's for: Poker fans who want a quick, no-frills heads-up Hold'em practice opponent with zero setup and no account required.
Our recommendation: play
7.3 / 10
Opening
This is a small, single-file heads-up Texas Hold'em: you against one bot opponent, standard blinds and betting, played out entirely through plain buttons - Call/Check, Bet, Fold, and a manual "advance" button that steps through the flop, turn, river, and showdown one click at a time.
Controls that can't go wrong
Because every single interaction is a plain HTML button click - no card dragging, no hover-only affordances, no precision taps on small targets - this was about as reliable a touch test as this fleet has run. A full hand was played end to end on both desktop and a simulated phone: dealing, calling a bet, and advancing through all three community-card rounds, using nothing but real mouse clicks and genuine touch taps on the actual button elements. Every action produced the exact expected state change (chip totals and pot size updating correctly in step with each click).
The hand evaluator, actually checked
Rather than take correctness on faith, a full hand was played through to a genuine showdown. Both hands were revealed with a real tie-breaking scenario: both the player and the bot ended up with two pair (eights and aces) from the shared board, differing only in kicker - the player's King against the bot's 4. The game correctly declared the player the winner on the higher kicker, confirmed directly from the revealed cards rather than assumed from the score line alone.
The rough edges
There's no language option and the entire UI is in Italian, which will be a real barrier for some visitors even though the numbers and card values are still followable. There's also no sound of any kind - the source has no audio code at all.
Final Verdict
A simple but genuinely reliable heads-up poker implementation whose controls can't be gotten wrong on any device, and whose hand-evaluation logic was checked and found correct on a real tie-breaking showdown rather than just assumed. The Italian-only interface and lack of sound hold it back from a higher score, but it does exactly what it sets out to do.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Controls confirmed genuinely reliable on both platforms - every action (call, check, bet, fold, and advancing through each betting round) is a plain button click, confirmed working identically via real touch taps on a simulated phone and mouse clicks on desktop, with no drag, hover, or precision-tap requirements anywhere
- The hand evaluator was verified correct on a real showdown, not just assumed - both hands were fully revealed with a genuine two-pair-vs-two-pair tie-breaking scenario, and the game correctly identified the higher kicker (a King) as the winner
- Chip and pot tracking update correctly and immediately after every action, confirmed by watching exact amounts change in step with real clicks
- Pure client-side single-file implementation with no backend or network calls, so there is nothing to fail server-side
- GPL-3.0 licensed
Cons
- The entire interface is in Italian only, with no language toggle found in the source - a real accessibility barrier for non-Italian speakers, though the card values, numbers, and button layout remain learnable through repetition
- No sound of any kind - confirmed by the complete absence of any audio code in the source
- A fairly plain, single-opponent heads-up format with simple bot logic (auto-call) rather than a fuller table or a more strategic AI