Seat three is a maniac. We have the file.

Muckraker keeps a record on everyone at your home game, then tells you what to bet. Sources: every hand they played.

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Every hand

It starts with a tap.

A whole night of poker, logged one tap at a time, and a straight answer every time it’s your move.

FIG. 1Your bet sizes beside your cards. The puck marks the pick. Point at a stack to push it over the line.The pick: ⅔ pot

Each time a player folds, calls or raises, you log it with one thumb, in about the time it takes to glance down. Muckraker follows the button round the table and lights up whoever acts next.

The pot, the side pots and every stack keep their own count. Tap the wrong thing and you correct it, without erasing a thing.

The files fill up

Every hand is evidence. After each one, Muckraker updates every player’s file and tells you how solid the read is. Cards you saw count. Claims don’t.

Then it’s your turn

The maths is already done: the pot, the price to call, your chances, and every bet size in rupees.

Muckraker’s advice model weighs it all against everyone’s file and your goal for the night, then picks one move.

No signal, no problem

The whole game lives on your phone. If the advice can’t be reached, you get the app’s own maths, clearly labelled.

Your friends know it’s on the table. That’s the deal.

The table

Who’s next? The ring knows.

Set up the night once: who’s sitting where, the blinds, the buy-ins and the smallest chip in play. Two to eight seats.

From then on the ring follows the button round the table and lights up whoever acts next. You tap what they did. Side pots, all-ins and every stack work themselves out.

The whole game lives on your phone, so a dead signal at the table changes nothing.

FIG. 2The table, from above the rail. The seat to act has its stack half in. Point at a seat to hand it the action.UTG is first to act

Case files

The usual suspects

Every player at your table ends up in one of four files. Until there’s enough evidence, they stay Unknown.

After every hand, Muckraker weighs what each player did and blends it into their file over time, so one wild hand doesn’t brand anyone a maniac.

Each file says how solid the read is. What a player claims they had never counts. Only cards you actually saw.

FIG. 3The files, one per type. Point at one to pull it, and its report slams onto the page.On top: the maniac

The advice

Too close to call? It says so.

When the action is on you, Muckraker’s advice model picks one move: the action, the amount in rupees, and how strongly it rates every option.

If the top two are nearly tied, that’s a close spot, and you see both. Take either one; neither counts as going against the advice.

No signal? You get the app’s own maths instead, clearly labelled as such.

FIG. 4A close spot, weighed. Call in one pan, raise in the other. Tip it with the pointer; level means too close to call.Raise, by a hair

Tonight’s forecast

Set a profit goal before the first hand. Your buy-ins plus that goal make your target stack, and how far you are from it sets how much risk the advice takes. A rebuy raises the target, and you can override the mode from the game menu.

Very aggressiveBig risks to win big. More hands, more raises, more bluffs.
AggressiveMore risk than usual, and the marginal spots that can win a big pot.
BalancedSolid, standard poker. No extra risk taken or avoided.
ConservativeLess risk. Fewer marginal hands, fewer bluffs.
Protect the winKeep what’s won. Fold medium hands to big bets.

FIG. 5The strategy knob, one notch past centre. Point round it to set a mode.Set to aggressive

Classifieds

Seats available

Two to eight. Pick players from your roster or add new ones, then set the seating order.

Rebuys accepted

Busted? Buy back in for the original amount between hands, or sit out and rejoin later.

Wanted: your reason

Went against the advice? One tap says why: bluff, read, gut or misclick. It goes in the log.

Cards shown?

Log what you actually saw at showdown, even a single card. What players claim never counts.

Mistakes corrected

Every game is a log that’s only ever added to, so a fix is a correction, not an erasure.

Four-colour deck

Spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs each get their own colour, and never blur together in dim light.

Late results

When the night ends: everyone’s net result, rebuys counted, ready before the chips are put away.

A note from the editor

Muckraker is for home games where everyone knows it’s on the table. Using it where phones or outside help aren’t allowed, in casinos, tournaments or online rooms, is cheating, and it breaks our terms.

It never touches money, either. Every rupee in it is a record you typed in.

Get it before the next game.

For Android. The first public edition is still at the printer.