poker building
Progress Update — June 2026
Every poker variant is playable, the platform has its own look and feel, a team is forming, and a private alpha is weeks away. June 2026 progress on salty.poker.
June 23, 2026 · The Salty Korean
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Poker strategy, Texas poker news, and engineering deep dives.
platform building
Patent Pending
Two provisional patent applications filed with the USPTO. Priority dates locked in. What we filed, what 'patent pending' means, and why it matters for players.
May 29, 2026 · The Salty Korean
platform updates
Designed for Multi-Table
We tore the interface down and started over. One persistent workspace, tables as tiles, a single GPU context for the whole page. Built to hold 16 live tables in one window.
May 18, 2026 · The Salty Korean
tech
Integration Testing Is the Part AI Can't Skip For You
The platform works end-to-end. Here's what it took to get there -- and why the testing phase looks the same regardless of who wrote the code.
April 19, 2026 · The Salty Korean
tech
None of Those Fixes Worked After Refreshing the Page
The routes were fixed. The data format was corrected. Every change was saved. Refreshed the browser. Nothing changed. Here's what was actually going on.
April 17, 2026 · The Salty Korean
tech
The Bug That Was Hiding in the API Layer
The table view loaded. The canvas rendered. The table existed. But every request to the server returned nothing. Here's how we found it.
April 15, 2026 · The Salty Korean
tech
We Built salty.poker with AI. Here's the Part Nobody Saw.
Twenty-two AI build sessions in ten days produced a working platform. Here's what happened the week after -- the part that doesn't make the changelog.
April 13, 2026 · The Salty Korean
poker
Why Compliance Isn't Optional — What We're Building Differently
The Lodge raid exposed what happens when poker operates without a compliance foundation. Here's how salty.poker is being built with that lesson in mind.
April 7, 2026 · The Salty Korean
poker
Competition Made Texas Poker Better. The Lodge Closing Makes It Worse.
The Lodge and TCH Social made Austin a world-class poker destination together. Losing one doesn't make the other better — it makes the whole ecosystem smaller.
April 5, 2026 · The Salty Korean
poker
The Legal Gray Area That Texas Poker Has Always Lived In
Texas Penal Code § 47.04, a 21-year-old AG opinion written for bar poker nights, and why the legal framework hasn't caught up to what Texas poker actually looks like today.
April 3, 2026 · The Salty Korean
poker
What The Lodge Raid Means for Every Texas Poker Player
The Lodge Card Club is closed. What happens to the players, the dealers, the tournament circuit, and the Austin poker economy?
April 1, 2026 · The Salty Korean
poker
The Lodge Got Raided. Here's What We Know.
A factual summary of the March 2026 TABC raid on The Lodge Card Club in Round Rock, Texas — timeline, allegations, aftermath, and what comes next.
March 31, 2026 · The Salty Korean
poker
Everyone Gets a Seat at the Table
Salty Poker Network is building an accessible online poker platform — color blindness support, keyboard navigation, custom mapping, and configurable UI for every player.
March 7, 2026 · The Salty Korean
poker
Bots Don't Play Poker. We Make Sure of It.
How salty.poker is building bot detection and fair play enforcement from day one — behavioral analytics, step-up challenges, device risk scoring, and rapid enforcement.
March 6, 2026 · The Salty Korean
tech
How We're Building Salty Poker: Spec-Driven Development
How salty.poker is being built using spec-driven development and agentic AI — over 100 pages of specification before a single line of production code.
March 4, 2026 · The Salty Korean
poker
Competition Is Good. Monday Night Was a Reminder of Why We're Building.
Monday night's Hijack outage was a reminder of why salty.poker is being built with resilience at every layer.
March 3, 2026 · The Salty Korean
tech
We're Building a Poker Platform and AI Just Tried to Deploy Our Infrastructure
Building a poker platform from scratch with AI assistance. What happens when you ask AI to document your Terraform strategy and it builds the whole thing instead.
February 27, 2026 · The Salty Korean
poker
Introducing the Salty Poker Network
Announcing the Salty Poker Network, a new real-money online poker platform built for Texas poker players. No rake, just a fair tick-fee model.
February 27, 2026 · The Salty Korean
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