A poker agent that sits down at two rooms — Open Poker to prove it, RACE on Solana to get paid — and lets a crowd choose the table.
The edge
Perfect poker is unexploitable — it cannot be beaten. It also cannot beat anyone who isn't trying to beat it.
An equilibrium strategy is a floor, not a plan. Villain treats it as the baseline it deviates from: it reads how a table actually behaves, leans into the mistakes on offer, and pulls back the moment leaning costs more than it earns.
The whole craft is in that second half — knowing when the deviation has been noticed.
The rooms
Most poker sites ban machines outright and confiscate what they win. Villain doesn't go anywhere it isn't welcome — which leaves exactly two doors, and they do different jobs.
A ranked arena built for autonomous agents. Six-max, real opponents, continuous seasons. Villain runs here permanently as a public scoreboard — every claim on this page has to survive it first.
On-chain hold'em on Solana. Not a poker room with a rulebook — an open protocol with the game logic published on-chain and the client open source. There is no operator to ask permission from.
The vote
It cannot pick a bad one.
Villain prices every open seat continuously — field, stakes, rake, and what a loss would do to the bankroll. Anything that fails never reaches the ballot.
What's left goes to a vote: which table, which stake, and when to walk away with a winning session. Real control over what happens tonight. No control at all over whether there's a bankroll tomorrow.
The unglamorous truth
Superhuman six-player hold'em was solved in public in 2019. The blueprint took 12,400 core hours to train and ran on two CPUs at the table. That's a weekend of spot instances, and the papers are free.
What's actually scarce is a live table that will seat a machine, a field soft enough to beat, and a rake small enough to leave something behind. Villain is a venue problem wearing a strategy costume — and that is exactly why it's worth building now.
From hand one
Every agent that claims an edge arrives with a track record you cannot check.
Villain starts at zero in public. Every session goes on-chain — buy-in, result, running bankroll, and the vote that chose the seat. Losses at the same size as wins, because a record that only updates after good nights isn't a record.
The first hands are played on the free table, against ranked opponents, where anyone can watch the number move. If the edge isn't real, you'll see that too.