Full-ownership poker platform

Your own poker room.
No dependencies.

Production-ready poker platform with full source code delivery. Built from scratch in Rust by poker industry veterans. Two years of hand-written code — no AI generation, no black boxes.

200K+ CCU
Concurrent players tested
<$0.005
Per active player / month
<40ms
Client-server latency
4000+
Commits
90%
Test coverage
12
Poker modes
9
Tournament types
2 yrs
Pure development

Online poker is a multi-billion dollar market — and it's accelerating.

GGPoker alone paid out $3B+ in tournament prizes in a single year and grew at 50% CAGR from 2021–2023. Depending on methodology, the global online poker market is valued at $8–112B in 2024 and projected to reach $37–415B by 2030–2034. Even the most conservative estimates show double-digit growth. Over 100 million players, 500+ platforms, mobile accounting for 60%+ of traffic. This market is not slowing down.

CONSERVATIVE BROAD DEFINITION $8B 2024 29% CAGR $37B 2030 MarkNtel Advisors $112B 2024 14% CAGR $415B 2034 Zion Market Research GGPoker alone $3B+/yr prizes 50% CAGR (2021–2023) 100M+ players globally Market size varies by methodology (real-money only vs. full ecosystem including social/free-to-play). Both segments are growing.

Poker elevates your casino brand

Poker is 1–3% of iGaming GGR — but it brings engaged, skill-oriented players at lower acquisition cost. They build community, generate organic traffic, and cross into slots, table games, and sports betting. Poker is the "lobby" of your platform.

Cross-sell engine

Multi-product players deliver 36%+ higher lifetime value. Poker attracts a younger, digitally native demographic other verticals can't reach. Tournaments and leaderboards create natural cross-promotion moments into higher-margin products.

Player value flow — from poker entry to full ecosystem monetization
Poker Entry Free-to-play or low stake Lowest CPA in iGaming Engaged Player Cash games, tournaments, Spin & Gold, leaderboards Community, streams, referrals Slots & Casino Sports Betting Live Dealer VIP / Premium +36% lifetime value vs single-product higher retention rate 1–3% of iGaming GGR poker direct revenue 60%+ of poker players try other platform products 36%+ higher LTV multi-product vs single Lowest acquisition cost in the iGaming vertical

Stop renting someone else's poker room.

Gamecraft gives you the full source code — your infrastructure, your traffic, your margins. No revenue share, no lock-in, no permission needed.

Fast setup, full ownership

Branded poker room live in weeks. Brand design included. Run independently or join a shared player network.

iGaming integration ready

Drop into your existing casino or sportsbook. Clean API, standalone architecture, zero dependencies on your stack.

Fast custom development

Our 12-person team built every line — we extend it fast. New game modes, payments, loyalty, compliance.

Free social poker for everyone. Forever.

At <$0.005 per player, free-to-play tables cost practically nothing to run. Offer unlimited social poker as a permanent acquisition funnel — no deposit, no paywall, no time limits. Most competitors can't afford this. You can.


Telegram-native. Built for conversion.

Native Mini App + bot. No download, no install. Players tap a link and they're at the table.

Telegram acquisition funnel
Telegram Ad cheap CPA Mini App opens instant, in-app Auto-registration zero forms Playing poker in under 5 seconds Total time: ad click → first hand < 5 sec

Sign-up: Google, Facebook, Telegram, Email

No KYC wall before play. No APK download. Works on budget $50 Android phones common in African and Asian markets. Under 12 MB client.

Low CPA, high conversion

Telegram ads cost a fraction of Facebook/Google. Near-zero drop-off with auto-signup. Free-to-play-first model keeps players at tables before you ask for a deposit.


Rust core. Protobuf protocol. Built for uptime.

Memory-safe server — no GC pauses, no segfaults during 12-hour tournaments. CPU-light, RAM-bound. Protobuf binary protocol for minimal bandwidth.

Data layer architecture
MySQL Core platform data users, rooms, config PostgreSQL Hand history player statistics Redis Real-time balances auto crash recovery MongoDB Chat messages isolated from game path

Core Game Server — Rust

Fully async, flume channels, no mutexes. Forked neFSM state machine for all game/tournament transitions. Race conditions impossible by design.

API & Infrastructure

Laravel REST API, AWS load balancers, auto-scaling EC2 (C7a/R7a). Docker, CI/CD, Cloudflare WAF. Hot config reload — no restarts needed.

Standalone or networked

Independent server or multi-server network with shared player pools across geographies. Clone, brand, deploy to any market.

Angular 21 — fast on any device

Latest Angular with AOT compilation. ~12 MB bundle loads fast on budget Android devices — critical for Africa and Asia. Easily portable to APK (Capacitor/WebView) or x86 desktop builds.


220K concurrent tested. Add nodes to scale further.

Four isolated services × 55K each. Add AWS instances for more — load balancer handles distribution. Roadmap: 1M+ concurrent.

Service scaling architecture
Hold'em 55K CCU Omaha 55K CCU PokerSlots 55K CCU Tournaments 55K CCU = 220K concurrent players tested + AWS nodes → 1M+
Cost per active player — comparison
Gamecraft $0.005 Typical white-label $0.03–0.15 Own development $0.30–1.00+ Gamecraft: 6–200x cheaper than alternatives
220K
Tested CCU
$0.005
Per player / mo
~12 MB
Client bundle
90%
Test coverage

Every format your players want. All configurable.

20+ game modes, 8+ tournament types. Every parameter adjustable without code changes.

Cash Games — Classic & Modern

NLH, PLO4/5/6/7 (Hi and Hi-Lo), Short Deck, Pineapple, Triton. All in 6-max and 9-max. New variants are a config change, not a dev sprint.

NL Hold'emPLO4PLO5PLO6PLO7Omaha Hi-LoShort DeckPineappleTriton6-max9-max

All-in or Fold

AoF Classic — push or fold preflop, instant action. AoF River — all-in on the river with full board. Both hyper-fast, tables always full.

AoF ClassicAoF RiverHyper-speedCasual-friendly

PokerSlots — 12-max simultaneous

Up to 12 players acting simultaneously — no turns. Slot-machine thrill meets poker hand rankings. Maximum hands-per-hour for players who'd never sit at a traditional table.

PokerSlots12-maxSimultaneous actionCasino-crossover

Blitz Mode (Fast-Fold)

Fold → instant new hand at new table. Auto-fold for maximum speed. Hold'em and Omaha, 6-max and 9-max.

Blitz / Fast-FoldAuto-foldInstant switchHold'em & Omaha

Spin & Gold — up to 20,000x jackpot

3-player hyper-turbo with random multiplier up to 20,000x. Launch in seconds, finish in minutes. Inside Telegram — ad click to spinning in under 5 seconds. Fully configurable per stake.

Spin & GoldUp to 20,000xJackpot SnGHyper-turboTelegram instant

Tournaments — MTT, Mystery Bounty, Battle Royale

Scheduled MTTs, Mystery Bounty with randomized knock-out prizes, SnG Battle Royale multi-stage elimination. Fast variants under an hour. Flexible blind system — levels advance by timer or by hands played, configurable per tournament. Full customization of prize pool distribution, payout structures, level durations, break timers, late registration windows, re-entry limits, and starting stacks.

MTTMystery BountySnG Battle RoyaleRe-entryFast TournamentsBountyTimer / hand-based blindsCustom payouts

Everything your players expect. Day one.

Ships with your codebase — no extra development, no feature unlock fees.

GLO Helper (real-time odds)
All-in Insurance
Full Hand History
Player Statistics & Win-rate
Poker Training System (15 topics)
Table Chat & Emoji
Custom Table Design
Multi-tabling
Sit Out & Auto-actions
Rebuy
Instant Reconnect
Referral System
Daily & Welcome Bonus
Deposit Bonus
Full Crypto Deposits & Withdrawals
Lucky Leaderboards
Open Tables (watch any active game)
Telegram Bot
Brand Design Included

Lucky Leaderboards — rake-back that feels like winning

Rake redistribution based on poker hand combination rarity — not volume or stakes. Royal flush climbs the board regardless of buy-in. Every hand becomes a potential bonus event. Coefficients weighted by rarity: rare hands pay more. Rake-back that rewards luck and loyalty simultaneously.

Built-in Poker Training — free, unlimited, for every player

A dedicated puzzle generator produces unique poker drills across 15 Hold'em training topics — preflop ranges, position play, pot odds, implied odds, bluff detection, board texture reading, and more. Every puzzle is procedurally generated, so players never see the same scenario twice. Each drill includes step-by-step explanations of the correct decision and why. Completely free, no paywall, no limits — available to every player from day one. This keeps casual players learning, engaged, and coming back. For operators, it's a retention tool that costs nothing to run and makes your platform the place where players actually improve.


Provably fair. Actively protected.

Certified RNG, player-verifiable fairness, and AI anti-fraud — as core infrastructure, not add-ons.

Modular RNG — certified & verifiable

random.org Signed API (atmospheric noise, certified). Signed hash per hand — player-verifiable. Automatic entropy fallback + Grafana alert. RNG is a replaceable module — swap providers with zero game code changes.

Anti-fraud — local LLM

Multi-accounting, bot detection, collusion patterns, stat anomalies — custom LLM running on your infrastructure. No player data leaves your servers. Cloudflare device fingerprinting on top.

Open-source hand evaluator — fully audited

Hand evaluation powered by an open-source Rust poker library — transparent, inspectable, no proprietary black boxes. We conducted a complete audit of the library and verified 100% correctness of hand ranking calculations across all game types. Any player, regulator, or third party can review the evaluation logic independently. Provable fairness at the code level, not just at the RNG level.

Open Tables — full transparency

All active tables are open to watch by any registered user. Players and observers can spectate any game in real time — building trust, community, and engagement. Nothing is hidden.


Next-generation platform. Not another legacy fork.

Most poker platforms on the market are decade-old C++/Java codebases patched over years. Gamecraft is built from zero in 2024 on a modern stack — and that difference compounds.

Rust — the language built for this

Memory-safe without garbage collection. Eliminates the entire class of bugs that plague legacy C++ poker servers — buffer overflows, race conditions, memory leaks during 12-hour tournaments. A small team of 12 can maintain and extend what would require 40–60 engineers on a legacy Java/C++ codebase. Fewer engineers, fewer bugs, faster releases.

AI can't replicate this — yet

Online poker is a niche domain with almost no quality open-source implementations. LLMs are trained on public code — and there's virtually no production-grade poker server code in public repositories. This means AI-generated poker platforms will remain low-quality for years: they simply lack the training data. Gamecraft's codebase is written by engineers who've shipped poker to millions of real players. That expertise is not in any dataset.

Modern stack, small team

Legacy platforms require large teams just for maintenance — patching old dependencies, managing technical debt, keeping deprecated APIs alive. Gamecraft's 2024 architecture uses current-generation tools (Rust, Angular 21, Protobuf, Docker, AWS auto-scaling) that are actively maintained and well-documented. One team of 12 handles core development, DevOps, and client — with capacity to spare for custom features.

No technical debt from day one

4,000+ commits over 2 years of focused development. 90% test coverage. No inherited legacy code, no abandoned features left in the codebase, no "we can't touch that module" zones. Every architectural decision was made in 2024 with current best practices — not carried forward from 2012.


12 engineers. 2 years. Every line by hand.

Core team from RunItOnce Poker. No AI code generation in the engine. A codebase we fully understand, debug fast, and extend on your timeline.

Full codebase delivery

Complete source code — server, client, API, DevOps. Review, modify, extend anything. No black boxes, no compiled-only binaries.

Custom feature development

We build what doesn't exist yet. Game modes, payments, loyalty, compliance — your roadmap, our execution.

Rust Core

Game server, state machine, engine

Angular 21

Web, Telegram, APK, x86 desktop

AWS + Docker

CI/CD, auto-scaling, WAF

Protobuf

Binary protocol, minimal overhead