Hey everyone,

We’re excited to share an update on our chip system development. Before the year ends, we’re opening early access to our upcoming chip lobbies — one of our most requested features and the foundation of what’s coming next.

This is a major update, so we’re making sure everything works smoothly before rolling it out to everyone. If you’d like to participate in testing, please join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/JSgWxRTPWu

How to access the testing link/info:

1. In Discord, go to the #auto-roles channel.
2. Click the ‘🎮’ gamepad reaction on the message there to add yourself to the tester role.
3. Once added, you’ll have access to the #beta-testing channel, where you’ll find all further testing instructions 🙂

We’re planning for a public beta in late January, with full release targeting mid-February.

Please share any bugs, feedback, or questions with us — and thank you to everyone helping test this update!

And to those who celebrate, wishing you happy holidays and a Merry Christmas 🎄

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We’re hosting a Sit & Go tournament that will take place on Monday, December 15th at 1pm EST.

Depending on interest, 3-4 tables will run simultaneously. Check this document for more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IoclHGIgqzM1uSPC7SH2wUtuA06ISMegxFVammBwuZU/

Prizes:

🥇 1st place - 12 months worth of Gold

🥈 2nd place - 6 months worth of Gold

🥉 3rd place - 3 months worth of Gold

*If a winner already has an active Gold membership, they can choose to gift the prize to another player of their choice.

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Hey everyone!

We’re hosting a Sit & Go tournament that will take place on Monday, November 10th at 1pm EST.

Depending on interest, 3-4 tables will run simultaneously. Check this document for more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yUeQ6IhwQtRIrTddsi1m24QHT_4_udyLS265PxrlZws/

Prizes:

• 🥇 1st place - 12 months worth of Gold
• 🥈 2nd place - 6 months worth of Gold
• 🥉 3rd place - 3 months worth of Gold

* If a winner already has an active Gold membership, they can choose to gift the prize to another player of their choice.

Please fill out https://forms.gle/tYsnCEVjotmSCrm98 to join. We’ll send you the event table link 15 minutes before it begins.

Today's update is aimed at helping us lay the foundations of more stable games, with fewer bugs, freezes etc. The update essentially changes they way we connect you to our game servers:

Instead of connecting a player to any game server, that can handle any game (And multiple servers can handle the same game), connecting to a game will now connect all players of that game to the same server.

This will help us get rid of a lot of cross-instance synchronization of data, which can lead to “race conditions”, state overwrites, … as well as causing longer response times on any player actions. While there were some benefits to this approach, it made it way more likely for “edge case conditions” to appear, which could cause many bugs, while at the same time making it way harder to log & debug any issues (as a metaphor, imagine instead of reading a book in one book, you'd have to read it in 10 books, with next line randomly scatter in another book, in a random place).

However as it is a major architectural update behind the scenes, there is possibility of some new bugs or interruptions happening that we were not able to catch during testing. If that is the case, we apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused – and at the same time, we'd ask you to report if you spot any new issues/bugs!

Expected improvements with this update:

• Reduced occurrences of “all sorts of known bugs”, but namely: game freezes, disconnect, weird state mis-sync/overwrites as others join/leave the table
• Potentially even reduced issues with weird game ends/all ins, and “checked when called/raised type of bugs” Faster response times when you take an actions

What this update is unlikely to help with:

• Display bugs, i.e. with raise bar, or “unknown cards”, or “multi card deals visually”, sound glitches etc.

We are running a test period of 24h for this update, and in case we run into any significant issues we will revert it, otherwise it will persist. We will update you on how it impacts stability, once we have at least 24h of data we can go on. If you spot any new issues, please let us know so we may sort them out quickly :)

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we make this transition! More bugfixes to follow soon!

- Poker Patio team

Hey everyone!

We’re hosting a Sit & Go tournament that will take place on Saturday, October 25th at 2PM EST.

Depending on interest, 3-5 tables will run simultaneously. Check this document for more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGfv0sIxpIYOuMgJXQNc0A2AFTeDoXWJJcb7_zZzMoU/

Prizes:

🥇 1st place - 12 months worth of Gold

🥈 2nd place - 6 months worth of Gold

🥉 3rd place - 3 months worth of Gold

🎁 If a winning player already has an active Gold membership, they can choose to gift the prize to another player of their choice.

Please fill out https://forms.gle/sgDfeiyd9w3nAGjv6 to join. We’ll send you the event table link 15 minutes before it begins.

As a part of improving our emailing practices, and make sure you can receive any important updates from us, starting from today we'll require any new social accounts (i.e. created via gmail) to confirm their account via clicking a verification link.

For any existing accounts created via gmail, we will not enforce that condition - but you will still see a one-time note and a confirmation email sent to your email. To make sure that you can receive our messages, we'd kindly ask to find and confirm receiving that email (if not in inbox, please check your spam, junk or promotions folders as well).

*You can also add pokerpatio.com domain under "Safe Senders" list or add us to your contacts, to ensure our emails do not go into your spam folder

We will never send spam, but building our email reputation is extremely important as we grow, as it helps everyone on our platform - i.e. to receive any sort of transactional emails quickly and ideally to their inbox, and helps us engage our userbase better, helping us grow and expand faster, which only means we can afford to do more and faster updates in the future 😎

- Poker Patio team

Today's update brings some small, but important updates!

NEW:

• Guest players in public rooms, will now only be able to select randomly generated usernames and disallowed from choosing their own. This is to further combat frequent profanity/spam. *Guests in private rooms can still choose username at will.
• A "confirm unnecessary fold popup" has been added that will warn you if you try to fold when you can check. It is possible to disable this check in Settings -> Preferences.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Fixed some bugs/issues with "raise UI" to make it clearer (if you can only raise with an all-in, the progress bar will now show at max, not at min). Also fixed some issues where it wouldn't always properly re-update after some events (like pause/unpause etc.)
• Made "requesting a seat box" the same width as other seats.

We hope you enjoy these updates :)

-Poker Patio team

Starting with this update, guests will no longer be able to chat in public rooms (private rooms remain unaffected).

This change was done in an attempt to give you a safer and more enjoyable environment to play your poker games in. We've tried keeping the chat open as long as possible, but unfortunately with no login requirement, it is too easy for any abusers/spammers to get around any limitations, bans etc. And we have received a lot of complaints on the bad state of chat sometimes.

We have some other changes lined up and coming soon to give you a better experience, while keeping our games as accessible and quick to hop in as possible!

For now, this login requirement will be undergoing a weekly test, before we decide if it will remain a permanent change. If you have any problems with this change, or if you find the chat to be massively improved now - we'd love to hear from you, either through our support tickets or on our Discord!

- Poker Patio team

We've internally called this update "Bug fixes part 1", as it is first part of major changes, that will help tackle the remaining bug fixes, and get either completely rid of them, or help reduce their occurrences.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Significant changes to how we treat data fetching/updating for spectators, and actual sitting players. By separating the storing and handling of this data, it should help improve various sync/overwrite events, that were previously more common to happen, due to i.e. spectators or game refreshes "causing unnecessary requests", and potentially overwriting various data.
• We've reworked how seat requests are stored and handled - this will cause any existing pending seat requests to be removed in any ongoing games as this update happened.

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed several issues where exiting/away player near/after showdown could mess up the game, either causing instant repeat game starts/stops, or similar.

*As this update changes touch on almost all parts of client and server code, if you spot any new issues or bugs that didn't exist before, we'd love to hear from you - so get in touch via our support form or on our Discord. We've done significant testing to make sure the update does not introduce new changes, but due to the breadth and complexity of it, it's very possible we missed something. Thank you 🙏

What do these changes more specifically mean for your experience?

• The above changes together, should help reduce a lot of "common bug occurrences", such as weird/ghost players, or seat requests/players being weirdly unseated etc.
• The above changes are unlikely to fix several other common/known bugs, such as "fold when raising/calling...", some other display issues. To vastly improve/get rid of those, will require another set of bigger changes/code upgrades, which will be done in what we call "Bug fixes Part #2". Due to the scope of this second part of work, it's not something we can do immediately in order to not further delay some the development of some major other improvements and features (such as our chip-based system), which will be done in parallel, but requires some immediate attention first. We estimate that we'll get to this second part of bug fixes in the end of October/start of November.
• We still hope to get some specific bugs fixed sooner than that along the way in smaller patches, but due to their complexity it is unlikely many of the "currently most annoying leftover bugs", will be properly addressed until we get to "Bug fixes Part #2".

We hope you see an improvement in stability/playability with this first part of changes already, and ask for understanding as there will be a while again before the next significant batch of bug fixes. We're taking this approach to maximize how many features we can develop and improve the overall game experience for you in the next few months 😎

Hey everyone!

We’re hosting our first Gold-only Sit & Go tournament that will take place on Monday, September 15th at 12:30pm EST 👑

Depending on interest, 2-3 tables will run simultaneously. Check this document for more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGfv0sIxpIYOuMgJXQNc0A2AFTeDoXWJJcb7_zZzMoU/

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