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AI poker analytics that reads the table in real time

A distributed analytics platform that processes thousands of poker hands with sub-100ms responses and streams live insight over WebSockets.

PokerNow AI — AI poker analytics that reads the table in real time

Project

PokerNow AI

Year

2025

Role

Design, full-stack engineering, infrastructure

Headline

1,000+ concurrent users

(01) — The problem

Serious players lacked real-time, affordable analytics. Existing tools were slow, offline, or clunky — useless in the middle of a hand.

(02) — The approach

01

Distributed analytics engine (FastAPI/Flask, MongoDB, Redis) engineered for sub-100ms responses.

02

Live WebSocket layer streaming hand analytics as they happen.

03

Automated hand-history ingestion and processing pipeline.

04

Stripe-powered subscriptions and tiered accounts.

(03) — The outcome

Sub-100ms response times across thousands of hands.

Scales to 1,000+ concurrent users.

Live in production at pokernow.ai.

Built with

ReactTypeScriptTailwindCSSWebSocketsNode.jsFastAPIFlaskMongoDB AtlasRedisAWS S3StripeVercel

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