Poker Patio FAQ

If you are new to poker, want to improve your skills, or need a refresher on the game’s rules, consider checking out our learn, hands, strategies, and terms guides. Once you’re up to speed on the basics, we recommend starting by playing against bots in our singleplayer experience. Good luck!

No! You can access Poker Patio anywhere at anytime without registration. We plan to release a registration update later this fall, so stay tuned for that!

Currently, Poker Patio only offers the Texas hold’em poker variant. We may explore adding other variants, including seven-card stud and Omaha, among others, in the future.

Public lobbies allow you to hop in a game and play live against players worldwide at any time. You can join a lobby by clicking the “join” button in the list or the “join table” button in the preview. Using the quick join button will take you into a random active lobby. You can sort lobbies (ascending/descending) by clicking the following: Table, players, stakes, average pot, and average stack.

Start a poker lobby and invite your friends to play; no registration! We simplified the process down to a few steps. As an admin, enter your username and stack to start a lobby. Then, invite your friends by copying and sharing the link, and wait until they join in. As players join, admit them and begin playing poker! Players can join and leave the lobby at any time. The lobby remains live for several hours, even if players are inactive.

The bot lobby is a great place to test and improve your skills. The bots are a mix of easy-medium skill levels (hard difficulty coming soon), perfect for new players. You can select to play against either easy or medium bots on the start game screen or when clicking “new.”

Away players are kicked after 4-5 minutes in public games (allows the games to filter out AFK players quickly) and after 90 minutes in private games.

If you preselect the check/fold option, when it gets to your turn, it'll automatically check if no other players have bet/raised and will fold if other players have bet/raised. While the hand is being played, if you have check/fold preselected and a player raises early on, it'll deselect this option and select "fold" instead. You'll still have enough time before your turn to deselect this option if you wish.

All game results are completely random - what we do is at the start of a hand, the game backend will create a stack of 52 cards, and shuffle them with a Mersenne Twister algorithm. Then, cards get dealt one by one from that stack of cards. This stack of cards is stored and encoded in the backend data, and specific card information is only revealed to the client when necessary (i.e., on community cards reveals or at showdowns as necessary).

Not yet. We plan to implement some form of leaderboards/ranking system as we build out our chip system in 2025/2026.

Public rooms are 100% filled with real players. There is often a misconception here as some players may join and hardly interact with the game/chat, but this is simply the nature of an open, non-registration poker game.

Currently, all games are free/unlimited and detached from one another. Any money you win/lose in a particular game exists solely in that game. We plan to build out a chip-based aspect of the site in 2025/2026 that’ll allow players to play in chip-based public games (and other chip-based experiences) and save/accumulate them.