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Texas Hold'em Poker on your TV, with play chips

Texas Hold'em Poker is a card game for 2 to 10 players, played on the TV with everyone's phone as their controller.

Your cards stay on your phone while the table, chips and shared cards appear on the TV. For friends who enjoy a patient bluff. Chips are game points.

Players
2–10 players
Time
Choose your session length
How you play
Everyone for themselves
You need
A TV with a web browser, and a phone each
Price
In the Trial and Unlimited (plans); players never pay

How do you play Texas Hold'em Poker?

Peek at your two cards on your phone, bet with game-point chips, and make the best hand with the shared cards on the TV.

40 seconds
Read the video transcript

Arnold: Everyone gets two private cards on their phone. Keep them hidden! Chips are just game points, no real money.

Lily: On your turn, your phone shows your choices: fold to leave the hand, check, call to match the bet, or raise it. It only offers the moves you’re allowed.

Arnold: The TV deals three shared cards, then a fourth and a fifth, with betting in between. Make your best hand from your two cards and the shared five.

Lily: If everyone else folds, the last player in wins the pot. If not, the best hand at the showdown takes it. Bluff well!

How to play

  1. Peek at your cards

    Each player gets two private cards. Keep them hidden from the other players. The forced small and big bets start the pot.

  2. Choose on your turn

    Fold to leave this hand, check when no extra bet is needed, call to match a bet, or raise. Your phone only offers legal moves.

  3. Read the shared cards

    The TV deals three shared cards, then a fourth and a fifth, with betting between. Make your best five-card hand using any of your two cards and the shared cards.

  4. Win the pot

    The last player still in wins, or the best hand at the showdown takes the pot. Tied hands can split it.

How to win

Build your chip stack across the hands. The host chooses when the game ends.

What does Texas Hold'em Poker look like?

Real screens from a game: the TV, the players' phones and the host's Backstage. The names are made up.

Texas Hold'em Poker on a TV in a living room, with the real phone screens in front: The poker table on the TV: the players round it with their chips, the dealer button, the blinds and the pot
The TV asks "Who’s on your left?" and shows the poker table filling in as people answer
Sam's phone: he tapped Priya as the person on his left, and he's inPlayer controllerPriya's phone asks "Who's on your left?", with a face to tap for each person in the roomPlayer controllerLeo's phone asks "Who's on your left?", with a face to tap for each person in the roomPlayer controller
Before the deal, everyone says who is sitting on their left, so the table on the TV matches the room.
The poker table on the TV: the players round it with their chips, the dealer button, the blinds and the pot
Sam's phone held sideways: their two cards turned up, and the bet buttons for their turnPlayer controllerPriya's phone held sideways: their own two cards, waiting for their turnPlayer controllerLeo's phone held sideways: their own two cards, waiting for their turnPlayer controllerThe host's Backstage during Texas Hold'em PokerThe host's Backstage
Sam's turn to bet. Each phone holds that player's two secret cards; the TV shows the table, the chips and the pot.
The poker table on the TV with the first three shared cards turned up in the middle
Sam's phone: their two cards, and the hand they make with the tablePlayer controller
The flop: three cards for everyone in the middle of the table. Each player makes their best hand with their own two.
The poker showdown on the TV: the players' cards turned over beside the five shared cards, and Sam winning the pot
Sam's phone after the hand: look at the TV, then Continue or Wait before the next dealPlayer controller
The showdown: the hands still in turn over on the TV. Sam takes the pot with two pair, 4s and 2s.

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