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Player guide

How to play

Last updated 18 September 2026 · version 1.1

Getting a seat

  1. Register with an email and password, or sign in with a wallet. There is nothing to download: the table runs in your browser on desktop and phone.
  2. Play money is instant. You start with 10,000 play chips, topped up every four hours. Bots keep play-money tables open around the clock; they are always labelled.
  3. Real money: deposit USDC on Polygon from the cashier. Your balance is held in US dollars, and the deposit is credited in dollars at the rate the cashier shows once the chain confirms it. Withdrawals are stated in dollars, paid in USDC, go only to an address you have verified, and need your authenticator code every time.

The games

No-Limit Hold'em. Two hole cards, five community cards, make the best five. Bet any amount up to your stack at any time.

Pot-Limit Omaha (4 and 5 card). Four or five hole cards; you must use exactly two of them with exactly three from the board. Bets are capped at the size of the pot.

Short deck. Hold'em with the 2s–5s removed. A flush beats a full house, and A-6-7-8-9 is the lowest straight.

Quick Play. Fast-fold: fold, and you are moved straight to a new table with a new hand.

Sit & Go. A single-table tournament that starts when the seats fill.

Tournaments. Scheduled multi-table events with rising blinds, late registration, re-entry where listed, and knockout bounties in PKO events.

All-in or fold. Eight big blinds, two buttons: every hand is a shove or a fold.

Hand rankings

Royal flush · Straight flush · Four of a kind · Full house · Flush · Straight · Three of a kind · Two pair · One pair · High card. (Short deck: flush ranks above full house.)

Table controls

  • Keyboard (desktop): F fold · C check/call · R raise · A all-in · number keys for bet sizes · O sit out next hand · Tab cycles tables.
  • Touch (mobile): swipe down to fold, tap to check/call, drag the slider to size a bet. One thumb is enough.
  • Time bank: tap the clock to use it. It refills as published for the game.
  • Multi-table: up to four cash tables or tournaments on desktop, one active plus one in the background on mobile.
  • Auto-muck, show cards, four-colour deck, sounds, reduced motion are in Settings.

How the deal is protected

Each deck is committed to before the cards come out, and the commitment for the next hand is published before the current one ends, so the deck cannot be chosen once a hand has started. A public per-hand lookup is not open, and the number a deck is shuffled from is never published, because it would disclose every hand folded and mucked at that table. A scheme that separates the two is in cryptographic review. See Security & Fair Play for what the commitment does and does not cover today.

Rake and fees

No rake is taken from a cash pot that ends before the flop. Every table shows its own rate and cap in the lobby before you sit, and every event shows its prize contribution and its fee separately before you register. The full schedule, rate by rate and cap by cap, is on the Rake and fees page.

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