Nine seats, no database, no Composer, no build step. Game state lives in JSON files on disk, so the whole room runs on any shared host that serves PHP.
Cash tables and a tournament mode: the seated players vote the rules, the blinds climb with scheduled breaks, late registration, limited rebuys and a prize split — and the table returns to its normal blinds when it is over.
The bots play offline with GTO-informed preflop ranges and Monte Carlo equity — and you can optionally hand them a DeepSeek key when you want them sharper.
The deck is shuffled with PHP's own CSPRNG — random_int(), never
mt_rand() — one deck per hand, dealt from the server only.
Desktop, tablet and phone · 2–9 seats per table · 15 bundled themes
A complete game engine, creative bots, hand history and a theme system — written in plain PHP with no dependencies to install.
The table turns into a freezeout: everybody votes the rules, the buy-in comes from the account and the blinds climb on a PokerStars-style ladder, with scheduled breaks, late registration, limited rebuys and a prize split. The felt shows the level, the next blinds and the hand count.
Vote · breaks · late reg · rebuysPreflop GTO-informed ranges, Monte Carlo equity and position-aware aggression — and every bot draws one of four archetypes when it sits down (Rock, TAG, LAG, Station) with a human-like thinking time. They keep playing when you close the laptop.
GTO · 4 styles · offlineA hybrid layer that judges on top of the engine's own equity and pot-odds numbers — validated, leashed and with automatic fallback to the local brain.
Off by default · one keyEvery hand is recorded. Pick one from the Hands panel and it opens on the finished board, with the winning combination under the cards.
Street by streetCards run out with live win percentages, and the hand name is displayed right under the pot — no guessing what you are holding.
Live equityRegistration with hashed passwords, avatars, country flags and per-user themes — plus an admin observer with kick and ban, and a tabbed settings editor for every option.
Profiles & flagsIn-game chat with a configurable banned-word list. Switch the whole channel off with a single option when you want a quiet table.
Configurable filterTurn on a room code in the settings page and index.php#RoomName opens as a separate table with its own chat and hand history. Unknown codes simply land on the default table.
When a hand ends by fold-out, the cards that would have come next fly out of the deck and flip over for about three and a half seconds.
5 / 2 / 1 cardsThe table geometry re-flows for every seat count from heads-up to nine-handed, on desktop and phone, so blinds, bets and the pot never collide.
2–9 playersStraight from a running table: the felt, the replay viewer, registration, the phone layout and the two-step installer. Click any shot for the full-size version.
Themes are auto-discovered from assets/themes/. Signed-in players choose theirs in the Profile dialog; guests can switch from the top bar.
Scroll the strip sideways. Most themes load a display font from Google Fonts — remove the import line at the top of a theme's theme.css for a fully offline install.
Pick a username and password — passwords are stored hashed — then add an avatar and a country flag. No email confirmation, no third-party sign-in.
Empty chairs show a Sit chip. The felt re-flows around however many players are in, from heads-up to nine-handed, and keeps everything readable on a phone.
Fold, Call or Raise with a slider and presets — Min, ½ Pot, ¾ Pot, Pot and All-in. Queue a pre-action while the others are thinking, and watch the board run out at all-in.
No database to create and no dependencies to install. If the host runs PHP, it runs the game.
Source/The files go straight into the web root — not into a Source sub-folder. Leave Documentation/ out of the upload.
setup.phpFollow the two-step wizard: it writes config.php, verifies permissions and creates the data folders.
setup.phpUse the one-click cleanup on the setup page, then open the game and register the first account.
config.php. Keep setup.php out of a live site once you are done.
The manual covers the install wizard, every POKER_* option, the admin settings page, the player-facing guide and the usual hosting snags.
What ships in the package, the quick-start path and the feature list.
Read overview → SetupRequirements, the two-step wizard, FTP upload, file permissions and verification.
Read installation → OptionsEvery POKER_* option in config.php, with types, defaults, allowed ranges and examples.
The four-tab settings editor, validation, player permissions, rooms, plus the observer with kick and bans.
Read admin & settings → PlayersAccounts, sitting in, betting controls, pre-actions, bot personalities, fair deal, chat, profiles, replay and mobile.
Read user guide → FixesCommon problems and their solutions, from permissions to stuck tables.
Read troubleshooting → Game modeThe vote, the blind ladder, breaks, late registration, rebuys, payouts and how the rules are applied.
Read tournament mode → ReleasesRelease notes for version 1.0.0 and everything that follows.
Read changelog →No. Everything is stored as JSON files in the data/ folder, which keeps the install portable and makes backups a simple file copy.
Both. Any table can become a tournament: the seated players vote the buy-in, the level length, the payout split, the late-registration window, the rebuys and the break schedule, then everybody pays the buy-in from his account and the blinds start climbing. Breaks pause the blind clock, a late player can still join while the window is open, a busted player gets a 30-second rebuy offer and the winner is paid automatically. Details in the Tournament Mode chapter.
No. Each hand is shuffled on the server with PHP's cryptographic generator
random_int() — seeded by the operating system, the same class of generator
Node.js exposes as crypto.randomInt() — inside a Fisher–Yates loop. There is
no rand(), mt_rand() or shuffle() anywhere in the code, one
fresh deck is used per hand, cards are removed as they are dealt (so duplicates are impossible) and
the deck never reaches the browser. A 200,000-shuffle uniformity test returned 0 invalid decks and
passed every chi-square check — the functions, the numbers and how to re-run it are in the
User Guide.
Yes, it is on by default: use the Add bot button at the table. The admin can turn bots off
completely (POKER_BOTS_ALLOWED) or keep them for himself
(POKER_BOTS_ADD_BY_PLAYERS = false) — both switches live in the Bots tab of
the settings page, and the button disappears for players when they are off.
Yes. Each bot draws one of four archetypes when it sits down — TAG (40%), Rock
(25%), LAG (25%) and Station (10%) — on top of the same GTO + Monte-Carlo engine:
different preflop ranges, open sizes, the price it will call, c-bet and bluff frequencies, plus a
thinking time that follows the style and how close the decision is (never above 4.5 s). Nobody
picks the style; turning POKER_BOT_STYLES_ENABLED off makes every bot identical again.
Details in the User Guide.
Table & Rooms tab of the settings page (admin.php?cfg=1):
POKER_SB, POKER_BB and POKER_START_CHIPS. They apply to
new tables, and a seated player can change the blinds of the table he is on — unless you
switch that off (POKER_BLINDS_BY_PLAYERS).
Yes — POKER_CHAT_ENABLED in the Game tab; the chat tab and its limits
disappear from the table. The moderated word list grows with POKER_BANNED_EXTRA
in the same card.
Between 2 and 9, set with POKER_SEATS. The felt adapts to whatever number is seated, and you can resize a table while it is running: growing keeps the hand, shrinking only cancels it when a seated player or the blinds would fall on a removed seat (chips are refunded).
No. Most bundled themes load a display font from Google Fonts, but that is optional: remove the @import line at the top of a theme's theme.css to make it fully offline.
No. The bots run on the built-in engine with GTO-informed ranges and Monte Carlo equity. A DeepSeek API key is purely optional and off by default.
The room is one folder and one setup page away. Register an account, pick a chair and deal the first hand.