Disciples: The Poker Bot Fighter You Own, Raise and Send Into Battle
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Quick answer: A Disciple is a poker bot fighter that you own at Superintelligencepoker.com. It takes a seat in tourneys and plays poker for you. Your first Disciple is free. Each one after that costs 4.99 USD through PayPal, and you can lead up to 5 at a time. Every Disciple gets a randomly rolled tier and hidden skills that nobody can see, not even you, so you find out what it can do by watching it play. You can gear it up with Dojo Coin, watch it slowly change with every tourney it plays, and trade it with other players on the Disciple Market for Dojo Coin only. Dojo Coin is play money with no cash value.
Disciple creator screen at Superintelligence Poker. Image: Superintelligence Poker.
What is a Disciple?
Most poker sites give you a seat. We give you a seat and a student.
A Disciple is your own bot fighter. You recruit it, name it, pick its look, and send it into the dojo's tourneys, where it plays real hands against people and bots. You can only enter one Disciple per account in each event, so pick your champion carefully.
The fun part is that you don't know exactly what you've got. Every Disciple is born with its own hidden skills, and they stay hidden from everyone, including you. There's no stat sheet to copy and no build guide to follow. You learn your Disciple the way you'd learn a real opponent: by watching how it plays. (Which, if you think about it, is sneaky good poker practice.)
Full details live on the Disciples rules page.
How Disciples work, step by step
1. Recruit. Your first Disciple is free. More recruits cost 4.99 USD each through PayPal, up to 5 at once.
2. Discover its rank. Each recruit rolls one tier at random, and then all of its traits are rolled inside that tier's range. The odds are posted publicly, so everyone plays by the same rules:
- Paper Tiger: 20%
- Fresh Gi: 45%
- Iron Stance: 26%
- Thunder Kick: 7.27%
- Dragon Fist: 1.7%
- Golden Dragon: 0.03%
Yes, Golden Dragon is 3 in 10,000. If you pull one, frame it. Your Disciple's actual tier stays secret, so you'll have to guess from its play.
3. Gear up. The store sells five kinds of gear, all for Dojo Coin: Fight Training, Weapons, Shields, Body Armor and Backpacks. Backpacks add Memory, so your Disciple keeps notes on more of its opponents' hands. The top backpack is the Oriental Chest. Every boost is small and capped, gear can only help and never hurts, and it never changes the original tier roll. Skill still wins.
4. Watch it grow. Disciples change through play. After each tourney, a Disciple's traits can drift a little. Some core skills only go up, slowly, while style traits can move either way depending on results. Changes are small and capped per tourney. A tier can move up or down, but only after a sustained run of results, one step at a time, with a cooldown in between. No overnight miracles, no sudden collapses.
5. Trade. The Disciple Market lets players buy and sell Disciples with each other, and it runs on Dojo Coin only. Listings range from 100 to 100,000 Dojo Coin.
A Disciple poker bot's hand history. Image: Superintelligence Poker.
Show off your gear (but keep your secrets)
Everyone at the table can see your Disciple's gear icons, so dress for the job you want. What they can't see are its traits, training or tier. Other players see a name, a face, a color and an owner tag. The rest is between you and your fighter, and even you only know what you've figured out from watching it.
Why this is different from a typical poker site
Here's the honest version, because we'd rather be accurate than loud.
Bots that play poker aren't new. There are sites where you code a bot or tune a strategy template and let it compete. Free play-money poker isn't new either, and some free poker games have collectibles and rarity tiers.
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What we haven't found anywhere else is all of this in one place:
- A bot you own instead of a bot you program. You don't write code or set sliders. You recruit a fighter with a personality you have to discover.
- Hidden skills, public odds. The roll odds are posted for everyone, but your Disciple's actual tier and traits stay secret. Unlike typical bot-building platforms, where you see every setting, here you scout your own player.
- Slow, earned growth. Disciples change through the tourneys they play, with small, capped moves. They're not leveled up instantly.
- Same tables as people. Disciples play in the same dojo where humans play humans, humans play bots, or both.
- A martial-arts world around it. Gear, tiers named like kung fu legends, and a 44-rank belt ladder from White to Grandmaster.
- No real-money gambling. Everything at the tables runs on Dojo Coin, which has no cash value and can never be cashed out.
We searched for other poker sites doing this combination and didn't find one. If you know of one, tell us. We'd honestly love to see it.
Hand replay of a Disciple poker bot. Image: Superintelligence Poker.
Belts: your Disciple's dojo has ranks too
The dojo has 44 belt ranks: seven colored belts (White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple, Brown) with four stripes each, then Black belt with six degrees, then Master, then Grandmaster. Belt points come only from tournaments: 1 point per hand played, more for finishing in the money, and 10 bonus points for each higher-ranked player you beat. Belts are earned, never bought, and Grandmaster takes 88,862 points. Bots wear belts too, so you can size up the table at a glance.
See the full ladder on the Belt ranks page.
Why owning a Disciple makes you a better player
Watching your Disciple is a training drill in disguise. To figure out its hidden skills you have to notice how often it raises, when it folds to pressure and how it handles a big pot. That's the same habit that wins hands: reading players from their actions, not their labels.
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A Disciple's public profile page. Image: Superintelligence Poker.
How to get your first Disciple
1. Create a free account. Play online poker for free while you're at it.
2. Recruit your first Disciple. It's free.
3. Pick its name and look, then gear it up with Dojo Coin.
4. Enter it in a tourney and start scouting.
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FAQ
What is a Disciple on Super Intelligence Poker?
A Disciple is a poker bot fighter you own. It plays tourneys for you, has hidden skills, and changes slowly as it plays.
How much does a Disciple cost?
Your first Disciple is free. Each one after that costs 4.99 USD through PayPal. You can lead up to 5 at a time.
Can I see my Disciple's skills or tier?
No. Tiers and traits stay hidden from everyone, including you. The odds of each tier are public, and you learn the rest by watching it play.
Does gear guarantee my Disciple wins?
No. Gear boosts are small and capped. They only help, and they never change the tier roll.
Can I sell my Disciple?
Yes, to other players on the Disciple Market, for Dojo Coin only. Listings run from 100 to 100,000 Dojo Coin.
Is Dojo Coin real money?
No. Dojo Coin is play money with no cash value. You can't cash it out, and the site isn't real-money gambling.
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