01. What are you trying to achieve?
Win the pot, the total chips players bet during a hand. There are two ways: having the best five-card combination when showing hands, or getting all your rivals to fold before.
Chips are virtual. You can get them through rewards, available ads, or purchases, but they are not withdrawn or exchanged for real money or real value prizes.
02. Choose how you want to play
Before entering, check blinds, entry, and format. You can play at public tables or invite friends to a private one. If you enter with an ongoing hand, you wait for the next deal.
- Naiko Mode: the base of Texas Hold'em with four powers, Destellos, and extra decisions.
- Classic Hold'em: two private cards and five community cards. No powers.
- Omaha: four private cards, but your play uses exactly two of them and three from the table. Pot limit betting. No powers.
03. How a hand progresses
- Blinds: two players post mandatory small and big bets. The button marks who is the dealer position; it moves between hands.
- Preflop: you receive your private cards and the first betting round begins.
- Flop: three community cards appear and there is another round of betting.
- Turn: the fourth community card arrives and betting resumes.
- River: the fifth community card is revealed and the final round takes place.
- Showdown: if multiple players remain, their cards are shown and their best five-card hands are compared. If everyone but one folds before, that player wins without needing to show.
04. When it's your turn to decide
- Check: you stay in the hand without adding chips if you have no pending bet to call.
- Call: you add what is needed to match the current bet. If you don't have enough, you add your remaining chips and go all-in.
- Bet or Raise: you increase the bet. The selector shows the amounts allowed for that table.
- Fold: you abandon that hand to a bet. What you already put in remains in the pot.
- All-in: you commit all your chips in play, if the table limit allows. Having more chips does not allow you to win a share of the pot you didn't contribute to.
05. A simple example
In Hold'em you have A♥ Q♥. The flop shows A♣ 9♥ 3♠: you already have a pair of aces. The turn is 2♦ and the river 7♣. Your best five-card hand is A♥ A♣ Q♥ 9♥ 7♣.
An opponent with A♦ J♣ also has a pair of aces, but your queen beats their jack as the kicker. You win against that hand. If someone had two pair, three of a kind, or another stronger combination, your pair would lose.
06. Now add the Naiko twist
You receive 1 Glimmer for every hand you're dealt, up to a total of 3. The table displays three powers available to everyone during that hand: the Carousel.
When it's your turn, you can pay for an available power and then choose your poker action. Or you can save your Glimmers for another hand. The Seal Shield is the exception: respond to a Short Anchor when you're targeted.
Powers don't guarantee wins. A Sneak Peek provides information, a Sleeve Swap can improve or worsen your hand, and a Seal Shield may be worth more if you save it for the right moment.
POKER
Which hand wins?
From highest to lowest. Five cards are compared; suits have no ranking among themselves.
Royal Flush
The highest straight flush.
Straight Flush
Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
Four of a Kind
Four cards of the same rank.
Full House
Three of a kind and a pair.
Flush
Five of the same suit, not consecutive.
Straight
Five consecutive cards of different suits.
Three of a Kind
Three cards of the same rank.
Two Pair
Two pairs of different ranks.
Pair
Two cards of the same rank.
High Card
If there's no other combination, the highest card wins.
The ace can top A-K-Q-J-10 or start A-2-3-4-5. It cannot join both ends in a sequence like Q-K-A-2-3.