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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: gutcheck
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: A poker reading trainer: commit your read, then see the real equity.
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+ Author: Phill Clapham
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+ License: Apache-2.0
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/phillipclapham/gutcheck
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+ Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/phillipclapham/gutcheck
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/phillipclapham/gutcheck/issues
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+ Keywords: poker,trainer,equity,holdem,mcp
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+ Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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+ Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Games/Entertainment
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.11
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Requires-Dist: pokerkit==0.7.4
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+ Provides-Extra: mcp
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+ Requires-Dist: mcp<2,>=1.28.0; extra == "mcp"
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+ Provides-Extra: anneal
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+ Requires-Dist: anneal-memory<2,>=0.8.5; extra == "anneal"
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+ Provides-Extra: api
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+ Requires-Dist: anthropic<1,>=0.112.0; extra == "api"
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+ Requires-Dist: openai<3,>=2.0.0; extra == "api"
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+ Dynamic: license-file
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+
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+ # gutcheck
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+ **A poker reading trainer.**
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+ ![Log a read, commit it, see the real number](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phillipclapham/gutcheck/main/docs/gutcheck-loop.gif)
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+ You sit at a 6-max no-limit cash table against five bots. Each one plays a real, exploitable style: the rock, the reg, the calling station. The catch is that their names get shuffled against their styles every session, so you can't memorize who's who. You have to read them from how they play.
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+
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+ Then, when it's your turn, you commit a read. How strong am I here? Is that guy actually on something? The trainer locks in what your gut said and shows you the real number, computed in code, never guessed. You see the gap. Do that a few hundred times and your feel for a table starts to line up with what's actually true.
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+
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+ No account, no API key, no LLM needed. The bots are code and the equity math is exact. There's an optional AI coach if you want someone to talk the spot through with you, but the training loop never depends on it.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install gutcheck
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+ gutcheck
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+ ```
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+ That opens a table in your browser at `http://127.0.0.1:8777`. Everything runs on your machine.
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+
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+ ## Play with Claude in the room
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+ This is how I actually use it. Start `gutcheck`, then open a Claude Code session with the gutcheck MCP server added (`pip install "gutcheck[mcp]"`, then `claude mcp add gutcheck -- gutcheck-mcp`, once). Now Claude can see the table you're sitting at, your hand history and your read stats, and you just talk it out while you play. What do you make of the guy who keeps check-raising? Was that fold as bad as it felt? Where are my reads drifting?
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+
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+ It answers from what's actually on the table and in your history, not from vibes. And it only knows what you could know: the bots' hidden styles stay hidden, and it never sees their cards mid-hand, so it can't read them for you. It has to read them with you. It can't play your hands either. The clicking stays yours.
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+
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+ ## Why this exists
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+
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+ I play by feel. Most of what happens at a poker table happens faster than I can do math, and I've always thought that was fine, since the gut is doing real work. But a gut that never gets checked isn't a skill. It's a mood.
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+
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+ Solvers tell you the right play. They don't tell you how far off your read was, and that's the part I actually wanted to train. So gutcheck is built around one loop: **predict, check against ground truth, notice the gap, go again.** You commit before you see the answer, every time, so you can't fudge it after the fact.
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+
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+ That loop isn't really about poker. It's the same thing whether you're reading a table, a codebase, or a room: say what you think is true, check it against something that can't lie to you, keep score. Poker just makes the scoring cheap and the ground truth exact.
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+
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+ ## How you train
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+ 1. **Sit down.** A buy-in comes off your play-money bankroll and you get a fresh table.
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+ 2. **Play.** Click any player to see what you've *observed* (VPIP, aggression, showdowns), never their hidden type. Guess it. There's a reveal button for checking yourself.
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+ 3. **Log a read.** On your turn, hit **Log read ♠**. Set your gut equity on a slider in plain language ("behind", "a coin flip", "a favorite"), pick your lean, add a note if you want. Then the trainer shows you the modeled equity and names the gap.
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+ 4. **Review.** After a hand, **⟳ review** replays it and stops at each of your decisions. Commit your gut again, then see the *exact* equity with every runout enumerated against the cards they really held.
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+ 5. **Get up.** Cash out. A session report records your results, your biggest pots, and how your reads graded out per villain.
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+ Equity shows up as a felt band first ("a favorite") and the percentage second. The point is to train the feel, not to turn you into a calculator.
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+ Over time the **🎯 Reads** view tracks your calibration: all-time accuracy, the recent arc, and whether you're sharpening or drifting.
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+ ## The optional coach
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+ When you want the *why*, hit **talk it through ♠** after a read and a coach walks through the spot, using the same number you just saw.
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+ Out of the box the coach tries the `claude` CLI if you have it (it rides your own Claude subscription). If it can't reach anything, it falls back to a plain facts readout: your equity band, the pot odds, what you've observed about each player. That always works, and the startup line tells you which one you're getting.
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+ Worth knowing: the `claude` provider runs a normal `claude -p` call, so your own `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` loads with it. If that file says who you are, the coach knows you. It also means the spot you're asking about goes to whichever provider you picked, same as anything else you'd send it.
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+ Open **⚙ Settings** to pick a different provider:
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+ | Provider | What you need |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | Claude (default) | the `claude` CLI (Claude Code), logged in |
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+ | Codex | the `codex` CLI, logged in |
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+ | Anthropic API | `pip install "gutcheck[api]"` and your own API key |
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+ | OpenAI API | `pip install "gutcheck[api]"` and your own API key |
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+ API keys are stored locally in a file only you can read (`0600`) and never go back out through the settings API. Coaching can be switched off entirely in Settings if you'd rather just see the facts.
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+ **Leak memory.** With `pip install "gutcheck[anneal]"`, the coach also keeps a memory of your recurring mistakes. When the same misread shows up enough times, it gets a name ("fold reads undercount own equity"), cited back to the exact hands, and it graduates as it keeps happening. Next time you're in that spot, the coach brings it up. It's built on [anneal-memory](https://pypi.org/project/anneal-memory/).
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+ ## Use it from Claude or another MCP client
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+ `pip install "gutcheck[mcp]"` adds `gutcheck-mcp`, an MCP server that lets an AI client read your table, your hand history and your calibration, and coach from them. It's read-mostly on purpose: the coach can see what you've observed, not the bots' hidden types, so it can't cheat for you.
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+ Start `gutcheck` first (the MCP server talks to it on port 8777), then register the MCP server. For Claude Code:
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+ ```bash
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+ claude mcp add gutcheck -- gutcheck-mcp
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+ ```
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+ For Claude Desktop or any other client, add a stdio server whose command is `gutcheck-mcp`.
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+ ## Where your data lives
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+ ```
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+ ~/.gutcheck/
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+ career.json bankroll + lifetime stats
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+ session.json the table you're sitting at
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+ sessions/<id>.json session reports
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+ calibration.json your read accuracy over time
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+ history.db every hand you've played
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+ coach.db the local coach channel
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+ settings.json your settings
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+ secrets.json API keys, if you add any (0600)
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+ leaks.db leak memory, with the [anneal] extra
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+ ```
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+ Set `GUTCHECK_DATA_DIR` to put it somewhere else. `gutcheck --reset` starts you fresh: it deletes the hand history, session reports and the current table, and keeps a one-step backup of your bankroll, read accuracy and leak memory in case you didn't mean it.
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+ ## Flags
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+ | Flag | Does |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | `--port 8777` | change the port |
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+ | `--reset` | fresh start (deletes hand history; bankroll, reads and leaks are backed up first) |
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+ | `--no-browser` | don't open a browser |
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+ | `--no-coach` | don't run the built-in coach (if you run your own worker) |
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+ | `--host <ip>` | bind a Tailscale IP to play from another device |
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+
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+ ## Playing from a tablet
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+ The server is single-player with no auth, so where it binds *is* the security boundary. It only allows loopback or a Tailscale address (`100.64.0.0/10`); wildcard, public and LAN binds are refused, with anti-CSRF and DNS-rebinding guards on top.
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+ ```bash
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+ gutcheck --host <this machine's tailscale IP> --no-browser
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+ # then open http://<that IP>:8777 on the iPad
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+ ```
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+ Don't put it on the open internet. It has no login, by design.
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+
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+ ## Development
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ git clone https://github.com/phillipclapham/gutcheck
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+ cd gutcheck
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+ python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
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+ pip install -e ".[mcp,anneal]" pytest
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+ GUTCHECK_DATA_DIR="$(mktemp -d)" python -m pytest -q
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+ ```
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+ Always point tests and smoke runs at a throwaway data dir, or they'll play hands against your real bankroll.
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+ The package is `gutcheck/`: `server.py` (HTTP), `game.py` (the table), `engine.py` and `archetypes.py` (the hand engine and bot styles), `equity.py` and `ranges.py` (the equity oracle and the villain range model), `coach*.py` (the coach channel and workers), `leakstore.py` (leak memory), `mcp_server.py`, and `static/index.html` with `doctrine.md` (the table UI and the coaching doctrine). The doctrine is a plain markdown file, so you can read exactly what the coach is told.
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+ Python 3.11+. The only required dependency is [pokerkit](https://pypi.org/project/pokerkit/).
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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+ # gutcheck
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+
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+ **A poker reading trainer.**
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+
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+ ![Log a read, commit it, see the real number](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phillipclapham/gutcheck/main/docs/gutcheck-loop.gif)
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+
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+ You sit at a 6-max no-limit cash table against five bots. Each one plays a real, exploitable style: the rock, the reg, the calling station. The catch is that their names get shuffled against their styles every session, so you can't memorize who's who. You have to read them from how they play.
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+
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+ Then, when it's your turn, you commit a read. How strong am I here? Is that guy actually on something? The trainer locks in what your gut said and shows you the real number, computed in code, never guessed. You see the gap. Do that a few hundred times and your feel for a table starts to line up with what's actually true.
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+
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+ No account, no API key, no LLM needed. The bots are code and the equity math is exact. There's an optional AI coach if you want someone to talk the spot through with you, but the training loop never depends on it.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install gutcheck
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+ gutcheck
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+ ```
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+
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+ That opens a table in your browser at `http://127.0.0.1:8777`. Everything runs on your machine.
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+
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+ ## Play with Claude in the room
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+
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+ This is how I actually use it. Start `gutcheck`, then open a Claude Code session with the gutcheck MCP server added (`pip install "gutcheck[mcp]"`, then `claude mcp add gutcheck -- gutcheck-mcp`, once). Now Claude can see the table you're sitting at, your hand history and your read stats, and you just talk it out while you play. What do you make of the guy who keeps check-raising? Was that fold as bad as it felt? Where are my reads drifting?
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+
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+ It answers from what's actually on the table and in your history, not from vibes. And it only knows what you could know: the bots' hidden styles stay hidden, and it never sees their cards mid-hand, so it can't read them for you. It has to read them with you. It can't play your hands either. The clicking stays yours.
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+
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+ ## Why this exists
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+
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+ I play by feel. Most of what happens at a poker table happens faster than I can do math, and I've always thought that was fine, since the gut is doing real work. But a gut that never gets checked isn't a skill. It's a mood.
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+
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+ Solvers tell you the right play. They don't tell you how far off your read was, and that's the part I actually wanted to train. So gutcheck is built around one loop: **predict, check against ground truth, notice the gap, go again.** You commit before you see the answer, every time, so you can't fudge it after the fact.
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+
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+ That loop isn't really about poker. It's the same thing whether you're reading a table, a codebase, or a room: say what you think is true, check it against something that can't lie to you, keep score. Poker just makes the scoring cheap and the ground truth exact.
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+
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+ ## How you train
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+
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+ 1. **Sit down.** A buy-in comes off your play-money bankroll and you get a fresh table.
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+ 2. **Play.** Click any player to see what you've *observed* (VPIP, aggression, showdowns), never their hidden type. Guess it. There's a reveal button for checking yourself.
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+ 3. **Log a read.** On your turn, hit **Log read ♠**. Set your gut equity on a slider in plain language ("behind", "a coin flip", "a favorite"), pick your lean, add a note if you want. Then the trainer shows you the modeled equity and names the gap.
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+ 4. **Review.** After a hand, **⟳ review** replays it and stops at each of your decisions. Commit your gut again, then see the *exact* equity with every runout enumerated against the cards they really held.
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+ 5. **Get up.** Cash out. A session report records your results, your biggest pots, and how your reads graded out per villain.
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+ Equity shows up as a felt band first ("a favorite") and the percentage second. The point is to train the feel, not to turn you into a calculator.
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+ Over time the **🎯 Reads** view tracks your calibration: all-time accuracy, the recent arc, and whether you're sharpening or drifting.
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+ ## The optional coach
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+ When you want the *why*, hit **talk it through ♠** after a read and a coach walks through the spot, using the same number you just saw.
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+ | Codex | the `codex` CLI, logged in |
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+ | Anthropic API | `pip install "gutcheck[api]"` and your own API key |
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+ | OpenAI API | `pip install "gutcheck[api]"` and your own API key |
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+ API keys are stored locally in a file only you can read (`0600`) and never go back out through the settings API. Coaching can be switched off entirely in Settings if you'd rather just see the facts.
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+ **Leak memory.** With `pip install "gutcheck[anneal]"`, the coach also keeps a memory of your recurring mistakes. When the same misread shows up enough times, it gets a name ("fold reads undercount own equity"), cited back to the exact hands, and it graduates as it keeps happening. Next time you're in that spot, the coach brings it up. It's built on [anneal-memory](https://pypi.org/project/anneal-memory/).
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+ ## Use it from Claude or another MCP client
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+ `pip install "gutcheck[mcp]"` adds `gutcheck-mcp`, an MCP server that lets an AI client read your table, your hand history and your calibration, and coach from them. It's read-mostly on purpose: the coach can see what you've observed, not the bots' hidden types, so it can't cheat for you.
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+ Start `gutcheck` first (the MCP server talks to it on port 8777), then register the MCP server. For Claude Code:
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+ ## Where your data lives
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+ career.json bankroll + lifetime stats
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+ history.db every hand you've played
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+ coach.db the local coach channel
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+ settings.json your settings
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+ leaks.db leak memory, with the [anneal] extra
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+ ```
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+ ## Flags
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+ | `--port 8777` | change the port |
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+ | `--reset` | fresh start (deletes hand history; bankroll, reads and leaks are backed up first) |
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+ | `--no-browser` | don't open a browser |
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+ | `--no-coach` | don't run the built-in coach (if you run your own worker) |
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+ | `--host <ip>` | bind a Tailscale IP to play from another device |
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+ ## Playing from a tablet
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+ The server is single-player with no auth, so where it binds *is* the security boundary. It only allows loopback or a Tailscale address (`100.64.0.0/10`); wildcard, public and LAN binds are refused, with anti-CSRF and DNS-rebinding guards on top.
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+ ## Development
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+ ```
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+ The package is `gutcheck/`: `server.py` (HTTP), `game.py` (the table), `engine.py` and `archetypes.py` (the hand engine and bot styles), `equity.py` and `ranges.py` (the equity oracle and the villain range model), `coach*.py` (the coach channel and workers), `leakstore.py` (leak memory), `mcp_server.py`, and `static/index.html` with `doctrine.md` (the table UI and the coaching doctrine). The doctrine is a plain markdown file, so you can read exactly what the coach is told.
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+ Python 3.11+. The only required dependency is [pokerkit](https://pypi.org/project/pokerkit/).
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+ ## License
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+ Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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+ """gutcheck — a felt-sense poker reading-trainer.
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+ The importable package: the game engine, the local web table server, the MCP coach
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+ proxy, and the operator-owned graduating-leak store. Submodules are imported lazily by
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+ their consumers (``from gutcheck import server`` / ``from gutcheck.seam import Seam``);
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+ this ``__init__`` deliberately imports nothing so a plain ``import gutcheck`` has no
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+ All runtime state lives OUTSIDE the package, under ``~/.gutcheck`` (override with
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+ ``GUTCHECK_DATA_DIR``) — see ``gutcheck.paths`` — so a read-only wheel install is safe.
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+ """
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+ __version__ = "0.1.0"