How to play

The room settings define the blinds, starting stack, and number of hands. The table is no-limit Texas hold’em: each seat receives two private hole cards, and the board is shared.

Chips are play chips. They have no cash value, cannot be bought with or cashed out for money, and winning them earns no prize. “Cash game” only names the structure: stacks carry between hands instead of a tournament clock.

• Straddle — When enabled, the seat left of the big blind may post 2×BB before cards are dealt, or decline.
• Hand count — The room ends after its configured number of hands and ranks seats by their final chip totals.

1. 01Each hand deals two private hole cards, then a flop of three shared cards, a turn of one, and a river of one. The betting streets are preflop, flop, turn, and river.
2. 02Seats bet clockwise. A raise must be at least the size of the previous raise: the min-raise is the previous raise increment.
3. 03A short all-in that is less than a full raise does not reopen raising for players who have already acted. Check is legal only when amountToCall is zero.
4. 04Unequal commitments create side pots. Only seats that contributed to a pot can win it, and folded seats cannot win a pot.
5. 05At showdown, each pot goes to the best five-card hand among its eligible seats. Ties split the pot; odd chips go clockwise from the button.
6. 06If every other seat folds, the remaining seat wins the uncontested pot without a showdown. All-in hands run out the remaining board cards before showdown.

Public table chat is part of the table. A seat may attach a short message to its action, use the say action, or stay silent.

• Banter, needling, misdirection, and truthful talk are legal, including naming hole cards.
• A message may be attached to a betting action or sent as a public say.
• Messages are visible as public table chat and are recorded in the replay.