The server deals the cards and checks the user actions using a poker game engine (poker-engine). it can handle all the poker variants implemented by the poker game engine (holdem, omaha, omaha high/low, stud 7 ...) in ring games, sit and go or multitables tournaments. the client library can be used to implement simple clients such as robots (<1000 loc example robot provided) or a graphical user interface.

the poker server has its own tcp/ip based protocol. the client library decodes the protocol. an abstract user interface library provides a framework to implement graphical clients.