---
name: "sillypoker"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sillypoker"
version: "0.25.5-4"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sillypoker"
---

# sillypoker(1)

silly Poker, the poker game.

## NAME

**sillypoker** – silly Poker, the poker game.

## SYNOPSIS

sillypoker \[**-h**\] \[**--help**\] \[**-v**\] \[**--version**\]

## DESCRIPTION

**silly** **Poker** is a poker game. It has a text interface and alternately a curses and Qt one.

It supports five card draw, five card stud, and seven card stud poker.

## CONFIGURATION

**silly** **Poker** uses the configuration file *~/.sillypokerrc*. It supports the following options. Each line must be in the format‘ *option* = *value*’.

- *players*

  the number of players (2-5)

- *account*

  the starting amount in each player's account

- *drawbetcap*

  the betting cap in draw poker

- *studbetcap*

  the betting cap in stud poker

- *color*

  1 to enable curses color, 0 to disable it (only if compiled with ncurses support)

- *cardaspic*

  1 to enable "pictures" of cards instead of text (unimplemented)

- *interface*

  which interface to default to (text, curses, qt)

## ENVIRONMENT

**silly** **Poker** utilizes the HOME environment variable.

## FILES

- *~/.sillypokerrc*

  user configuration file

- *~/.sillypokerstats*

  user statistics data file

## AUTHOR

Kevin Radloff ⟨kmradlof@colby.edu⟩ *http://rad2.colby.edu/~radkade1/*