does this use real money or some in game money that lets you keep the money after you play it and let you use it for future games? can u win money from others etc? is this like a betting game?
The game does not use real money. It's virtual play money which you can configure yourself. I believe I saw some code commits from Cubeia of supporting bitcoins. Have to ask them to get the detail of this. Actually the virtual money can be any XXX code you configure. You can have your own money type if you like instead of USD/CAD/EUR but it really is play money.
I could call virtual money on my site as HFC as an example. To host real money for online poker game you are entering into new territory which requires licence.
Not sure if I understand your question but cash persistence is already implemented in the first release. The money you won will be there when you sign on again. But if you lost everything, you will need to go to the admin console and transfer more money. At initial startup, it's configured to give 20000 USD as play money to start but that value can be changed to any value you want player to have. The amount of money is bound to your Xenforo account since it's linked in the back office where all the money transactions are performed and summed up to show your total left when you join any tournament/table to buy in.
It is a betting game like poker should be. Play some hands on
http://quarterpoker.com to get an idea of the game play.
Yes, you can win money from your members community if they are online and they are registered to sit&go tournament which has prize pool to the first 3 winners.
Cash games is different. You can sit and wait for someone to play with. On the demo site, I've launched batch of bots you can play with and try to win. But they are much smarter than the first version since Cubeia has tweaked AI.
There is a lot you can manually do is to have user get more cash when he/she donates to a site to support the game. Or simply add some API to support automatically other point system or simply allow cash give away from member to member. While the latter can be done but my free time is limited. I'm still working on leaderboard module which has not been up to my satisfaction yet so there is some more thinking to do it better in a useful way to interface with forum.
Hope I answer your question.
LR