Hey Everyone!

Just dropping in to let you know of the new web site. You can find it here:

http://freetournamentpoker.comyr.com/

Note that it is a work in progress, but I think it will do just fine! :P

Hope to see you over there!

Just swamped. I’m back to working on ExtJS Poker a bit and will try to make some commits to the repository when I’ve got something somewhat functional so everyone can take a look. In the mean time...leave me alone!! hehe...just kidding :P

Feel free to email me extjspoker@gmail.com if you still read this. It’s my own fault if you don’t, though...

Hey again everyone,

The blog and the forums will hopefully be a hit, and this is where I’m hoping to get some help from all of you. Here is the current dilemma:

As you know when a hand has reached the river and the betting round has completed, there is a showdown of the players that are still involved in the hand. It is at this point that those player’s cards are flipped over to reveal their hand and the best hand takes down the pot.

What I am attempting to accomplish is to “delay” the start of the next hand to allow the players to view the results of the previous hand. Therein lies the problem...

When a player posts an action (CHECK, CALL, RAISE, etc...) the server response is the next action and is done immediately. There is almost no delay (other than ping times...but we will get into that in the future...). My question to all of you is this:

How do I program this “delay”?

Here are a couple of ideas that popped into my head:

1. Throw in a PHP sleep command after posting the final user’s action. I’m not sure this will work as I think it would delay the response for posting the user action for that particular user...

2. This is the way I think I want to go, just am not sure how I’d program it yet... Once the user posts the final action of the hand, the server sends the final hand results to each client while also starting a new hand behind the scenes. Once the final results have been shown to each client for x amount of time, the screen is “refreshed” with the next hand’s data.

What are your thoughts?

Just stopping in today to let you know that we also have a forum in place here where we can discuss anything related to the application.

You can check it out here:

http://xp-dev.com/forum/6372/

The ExtJS Poker Project would like to welcome you to their new ‘home’. This page will allow us to easily post blog posts about the progress of the project while our other ‘home’ will allow us to provide you with a demo of the system when it becomes available.

Feel free to post comments in here!

Thanks for your patience!

-Troy