How to play

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How to play

It's a poker room between players: Texas Hold'em, Omaha and Short Deck cash tables, tournaments and fast-fold, using chips of its own pegged 1:1 to USD.

1. Secure your account

Log in with your email and password, or with your Google account, and verify your email — it's a required step before creating or joining a table. The first time you verify it on a device and connection that haven't claimed the bonus before, you automatically get a one-time welcome bonus of 2 chips to start playing without depositing (see the withdrawal guide for how it gets released; if that day's bonus budget is already spent, yours is credited over the following days). From your profile you can also enable two-factor verification (2FA) with an app like Google Authenticator: it'll be asked on every new sign-in, as an extra layer of security on top of your password.

2. Enter the table lobby

Under "Tables" you'll see the list of open tables, with their blinds and the amount of FICHAS needed to sit down (buy-in). Pick one with an open seat, or create your own. The lobby only shows the tables whose minimum buy-in your available balance covers, plus the ones you created and those you are already seated at; the rest appear once you deposit.

3. Create your own table (optional)

When creating a table you pick a name, a blind level (Low, Medium, High, or your own values), how many seats it has (2 to 9), and whether it's private. A private table doesn't show up in the public lobby: it's only reachable with the invite link you get when you create it. With Gold or Premium you can also schedule it to open another day or at a set time; on Free it opens right away. Besides the tables players create, the house always keeps at least one low-blind table open, so you can sit down even with few chips.

4. Sit down at the table

Whoever creates the table decides whether everyone sits down with the same amount or each player picks how much to bring within a range. If you lose all your chips at a cash table, you can sit down again with a new buy-in; your seat is assigned at random. If you stand up with chips and come back to the same table within 30 minutes, you come in with at least what you left with, even above the table's maximum.

5. During the hand

Actions are the usual ones: check, call, raise, or fold. You have 30 seconds per turn. If they run out, your time bank runs once (up to 30 extra seconds, which comes back little by little with every hand you play); if that runs out too, the table folds you (or checks, if there is nothing to call) and marks you "Away", so no hand gets stuck on a dropped connection. An all-in short of a full raise does not reopen the betting for a player who already acted: they can only call or fold, unless several all-ins in a row add up to a full raise. When everyone else is all-in and you have nothing to call, the remaining cards are dealt without asking you to act.

6. Your-hand indicator (Gold and Premium)

With a Gold or Premium plan, the name of your current hand (pair, two pair, flush...) shows under your cards, and the cards that make it — yours and the board's — are highlighted in gold. If the whole hand is on the board, the label stays grey: everyone has that hand. It only uses what you can already see and never recommends a play. On the Free plan you see a small locked notice instead, linking to Plans. On any plan, the "Board reading" also shows to the right of the table: which kinds of hand would beat yours with the current community cards (say, a higher pair or the same pair with a better kicker), which hands the board rules out, and which cards would improve yours, with the chance one comes next. It's worked out only from your cards and the board, and you can hide it or bring it back whenever you like (wide screens only).

7. The rake on each pot

The table takes 5% of the pot on every hand that reaches the flop (no flop, no rake), capped at a flat 2 FICHAS — never more than that, no matter how big the pot is. With the Gold and Premium plans, part of that rake comes back as rakeback. It is taken only from what was actually at stake: a bet nobody calls goes back whole to whoever made it and pays no rake.

8. Tools at the table

"Check/Fold" settles your play before your turn comes: when it does, you check if there is no bet or fold if there is one, for that hand only. "Sit out" keeps your seat while you are away: in the hand in progress the table checks or folds for you; at cash tables you stop being dealt in and paying blinds until you are back, and if you stay away for long you are stood up and your chips go back to your balance (in a tournament you keep being dealt in and blinded). If you stand up in the middle of a hand, you fold it right then: what you already put in stays in the pot. If the hand goes to the end, cards are shown in turn, starting with the last player to bet or raise on the river (or the first to act, if everyone checked): each player shows if they tie or beat what is already on the table, and otherwise their cards stay hidden unless they use "Show my cards". A called all-in with no betting left is played face up: every hand still in it is shown. The table has sounds for the deal, the bets and your turn, which you can mute, plus chat and the hand history. Your cards travel only to you: nobody else can see them while the table is being played, not even an administrator. The detailed record of each table, kept for audits, can only be consulted once the table is over (for a tournament, once the tournament ended).

9. The tables board

The lobby shows the tables as a board by day: the ones open now and the ones scheduled for later. If you scheduled a table (Gold and Premium), you can move it to another day by dragging it to another column while nobody is seated at it.

10. Tournaments (optional)

If you'd rather play elimination-style instead of a cash table, "Tournaments" has its own lobby: you can register for an open one or create your own. On Free you can have one tournament of your own open at a time; Gold and Premium add more at once plus rebuys, add-on and knockout bounty. If nobody created a tournament that day, the house runs one with a low buy-in. Freerolls cost nothing: the prize is put up by the house or, in a "Team freeroll", by a team's pot (see the teams guide). When one of your tournaments starts, if you have the site open a notice with a sound pops up to take you to your table, whatever page you're on; if not, you get an email with the link to take your seat. While you play, the "My tournament table" button in the header takes you to your table from any page. If you're away, your turns resolve themselves when the clock runs out and you keep paying the blinds.

11. Button, blinds and sitting out

The dealer button is drawn on the first hand and then moves one seat a hand. The big blind always goes to the next player, and nobody skips it or pays it twice in a row: if whoever was due the small blind or the button left, that hand is played without a small blind or with the button on an empty seat. Heads-up, the button posts the small blind. If the big blind is all-in for less than the blind, calling still costs the full big blind while two or more players have chips. While you sit out at a cash table you are not dealt in and pay no blinds; if the blinds pass you in that time, when you are back you can wait for the big blind to reach you or pay what you missed to come in sooner (the small blind you owe goes straight into the pot). If a pot is split and a chip is left over, it goes to the first winner to the left of the button.

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