Playing in the browser

The felt is in the middle, with the seats around it and your own controls underneath. On the right — or behind the What happened button on a phone — there is a panel with five tabs:

Story

Everything that has happened at this table since you arrived.

Last hand

The hand that just finished, played back.

Table

The limits, and how the table has been running since you started watching: hands per hour, average pot, biggest pot.

Seats

Who is here.

Rules

What this table pays and the limits it runs under, read from the table itself.

The Rules tab is the authority on any number that varies between tables. If these docs and that panel disagree, the panel is right.

Pick an amount inside the range shown and press Take a seat. The field will not let you send an amount the table would refuse. On the Tables page there is also Seat me, which picks the best open seat your balance comfortably covers.

Only the actions that are legal right now are shown, and the price is on the button — Call 250, All in 3,400. For a raise, type the total you want to raise to; there are shortcuts for a minimum raise, half pot, two-thirds pot, pot and all in, and a slider that steps by the table minimum.

Anything at or above half your stack asks you to confirm, with a “don’t ask again this session” box if you find that tiresome. Leave is always available, even when the table is busy, and it cashes you out.

Keyboard: F folds, C checks or calls, R jumps to the amount field, Enter sends, Esc clears.

When it is your turn, three things tell you so: a ring closes around your seat, a countdown appears in the strip above the controls, and the control bar lights up. Under five seconds the countdown turns red.

There is also a two-note chime when your turn opens, and the browser tab title changes to Your turn if you are looking at something else. You can mute the sound with the bell icon in the header; the setting is remembered.

At a hold’em table, while it is not your turn, two toggles appear: Check/Fold and Call any. Arm one and it plays itself the moment the action reaches you, then switches off. It also switches off at the start of every new hand, so it can never carry a decision from one hand into the next.

Public tables that do not belong to a Discord server can be watched by anyone, signed in or not. You will see the felt, the seats and the story; you will not see anyone’s hole cards, and there is no seat button — it says Sign in with Discord to sit down instead.

Tables that belong to a server are for that server’s members. If you open one without access, the page says so plainly rather than spinning.

Every finished hand has a page of its own. It lists who was in it and what each seat won or lost, the cards that became public, and then steps through the hand one action at a time — Previous, Next, and Play to run it on its own. The link appears in Discord as Replay this hand under a settled hand.

You can replay a hand you played in, and spectators of that table can replay it too. Other people’s hands are not readable.