💡Concept introduction

Traditional Poker vs Web 3.0 Poker

Online games experienced MASSIVE growth in popularity during COVID-19 pandemic. HUGE amount of people now decide to play games online rather than offline.

Texas Hold'em Poker

• Texas Hold'em is one of the most popular poker variations.

• Texas Hold'em is a game of asymmetric information, its most important part are secrets.

• Texas Hold'em is a game about frequencies, its most fascinating part is the randomness.

Traditional Online Poker Rooms

• Traditional online poker games are served by private servers in a centralised way.

• That means game server provider knows all secrets and is able to control game process

• Traditional online poker rooms require trust from their players.

• They build this trust by certifying game process with third parties.

Players still need to trust the centralised third parties that certify game process and trust that game providers would not manipulate the game during that time when they are not actually being in the certification process

• Traditional online poker rooms raise concerns in areas other than game process.

Safety issues

Traditional online poker rooms have to guarantee safety for the players assets.

Nowadays, players use their bank card/VISA/crypto to deposit and withdraw money in a traditional centralized online poker room. However, nobody but the room knows the cash flow behind the platform, its economical conditions and the security measures it takes.

• Players need to trust their payment method info stays safe and uncovered.

• Players need to trust their assets will be deposited successfully.

• Players need to trust they will be successfully using them in game.

• Players need to trust their winnings will be withdrawn successfully upon request.

• Players need to trust their identity and private information will not be revealed.

Data accessibility issues

• Game data is usually privately stored and identified in a centralized solution.

• Players can hardly query their game history that is controled by server host.

• There is no way to separate their identity and game records.

Web 3 technology

• Web 3 stands for decentralized and community owned underlying part of any process

• Decentralization implies the complete absence of trust between all the parties invloved

• Decentralization requires all parties to reach consensus to make a progress

• To reach it, all the parties need to follow the same, immutable and verifiable set of rules

Having said that, let's get introduced to the most TRUSTLESS solution to online poker!

RACE Poker

• R stands for REDEFINING

• ACE stands for the BEST

RACE Poker is an open sourced web 3 poker protocol that utilizes the powers of blockchain technology to leverage the gaming experiences through decentralization and transparency.

RACE does not simply integrate blockchain assets in the poker game but uses blockchain:

• As an account system for user authentification and user actions verification

• As decentralized data storage to ensure data access, security and indestructibility

• For assets settlement regulation via immutable permissionless & transparent smart conracts

• For decentralized randomness creation by all the participants keeping their secrets secured.

• For decentralised permissionless game ownership and access.

• For decentralized governance to ensure game progress is driven by consensus.

RACE Poker is REDEFINING the BEST competitive game with the WEB 3 technology

• With RACE anyone can play poker or own its game server, poker tables, poker lobbies.

• With RACE noone has to trust anyone as every step has to be agreed on by everyone.

• In RACE every poker table can be accessed from anywhere including apps and metaverses

• RACE solution is suitable for poker games but is not limited to them.

System Architecture	Encrypted communication
Game Flow	Decryption and key sharing
Cards shuffling	RACE Protocol

Assets safety

• There is no centralized platform to take care of players deposits and withdrawals.

• Players send their assets to specific game room which is an account on blockhain

• Assets settlements are handled by the onchain programs in real time.

• Game room accounts are transparent on blockchain, so is the whole cash flow.

• Blochain programs (smart contracts) are open sourced and immutable.

• Everything in RACE can be publicly audited and is governed by community.

Data access

• Game histories are stored permanently and transparently in decentralised storages

• Game histories refer to specific account addresses only known to its owners

• Game histories contain information about every step of consensus reached

• Game histories provide ability for community to govern and validate games.