Hey everyone,

We’re writing to inform you that as we continue shifting our long-term focus toward chip rooms and the surrounding ecosystem, we’ve made the decision to discontinue free lobby stats and gameplay (private lobbies remain open to all). It wasn’t an easy choice, but it’s a necessary step as we continue moving the site forward. We believe simplifying the public lobbies will encourage more players to join chip lobbies and create a more connected and consistent gameplay experience, especially with the recent release of leaderboards and tournaments coming next, where all gameplay ties into the same stats and hand log systems.

We truly appreciate all the support and activity in the free lobbies over the years, it has meant a lot. As a token of appreciation, we’ll be awarding the following chip rewards based on free lobby hand activity and profit:

• 5,000 chips for every +500,000 in profit

• 2,500 chips for every 500 hands played

Example: A player with +2.3m profit and 3.2k hands played would receive 35,000 chips. ((5k × 4) + (2.5k × 6))

Additionally, once we introduce badges later this year, players who supported these games early on will receive a permanent legacy badge as a thank you for being part of the early community.

Best,

- Poker Patio team

Hey everyone!

As many players have been anticipating since the launch of our chip lobbies, we’re excited to

announce that our ranking and leaderboard system is now officially live: https://pokerpatio.com/leaderboards

Leaderboards are based on both monthly and all-time chip profit, making things more

competitive overall.

Along with this, stats can now be toggled between monthly and all-time, with player rankings

now visible directly on profiles.

How to Rank: To earn a ranking, you must play a minimum of 150 hands during the month.

Rankings are displayed on both your profile page and in-game player popup. Players with

negative monthly profit will remain unranked.

Chip Awards: The top 50 players by monthly profit earn chip awards each month. As activity

continues to grow, we may expand both the number of rewarded players and the overall prize

pool. You can view the full prize distribution by clicking “chip awards” on the leaderboard page.

IMPORTANT: Any players found farming chips or artificially inflating profit will face account bans and be removed from the leaderboards.

Please report any issues you notice here: https://pokerpatio.com/contact/feedback-and-bugs

Blog post: https://pokerpatio.com/blog/rankings-and-leaderboards-live/

Good luck,

- The Poker Patio Team

We're happy to introduce tiered rake caps in chip games!

As you know, we have a 4% rake on chip games, as part of game economy balancing, preventing chip inflation, and keeping chips relevant/valuable.

Rake caps prevent excessive rake on large pots, and rates decrease at higher stakes to keep gameplay fair. Depending on stake level it falls between 4bb-10bb.

You can see the rake cap for a specific room, on top of the in-game chat.

Find the full rake cap tier structure here: https://pokerpatio.com/blog/tiered-rake-cap-structure/

- Poker Patio team

Today's update brings:

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed an issue where if a user got dedicated to join server A for room X, while server B was owner of room X, the user's connection attempt will now be rejected. This will help prevent cases where multiple instances might be trying to run the same game, causing all sorts of issues. We're still investigating the root cause of why a user might even be pointed to a wrong server, but this check should help prevent various issues from happening in the first place.

CHANGES:

• Guest users will no longer get any extra avatars to choose from - all extra avatars will now require to be logged in. This change was done with the goal to get more signups and direct more users from private rooms to public lobbies. It's one of the small changes that add up over time in helping improve retention and engagement rates at Poker Patio, which is super important to help support our continued growth!

- Poker Patio team

Today's upgrade brings:

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed one of the major remaining "full game freeze situations", that could happen with 4 or more players in the game, in specific circumstances.

OTHER:

• Ad watch rewards for chips increase from 150>250. Wait time before 2 watches reduces from 3h>2h.
• Showdown display time increased from 4s to 5s, due to continued requests.
• Improved display of non-winning cards in showdown, to have consistent opacity for all cards (your, non-winning player, community....)

Please let us know if you still experience any bugs or issues, and report them (with exact hand ids when possible) - this helps us a ton when trying to fix them.

The past 2 weeks we have vastly improved stability and got rid of a ton of bugfixes already, but we're still looking to get rid of as many as possible :)

Hey everyone!

We're excited to announce our first chip giveaway event in the form of a video challenge.

To participate, create a short video about Poker Patio’s chip lobbies and share it on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or Instagram Reels. The top 5 posts with the most likes will receive chip awards from a 10 million prize pool. The competition ends on April 1st.

We encourage you to get creative with your video, and we wish you the best of luck! 🎥

Prize pool: 1st: 3,500,000 🥇 2nd: 2,500,000 🥈 3rd: 1,750,000 🥉 4th: 1,250,000 5th: 1,000,000

Participation: Participation is open to everyone, just make sure your post clearly references Poker Patio. Please submit the video link here: https://forms.gle/nooAxPYxWqkbSFXX8

More info and video ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yLTSkvg6-FDv8zUB_-pgJyL53KmI_blQH5hxs3fHDhg/

Today's update brings:

BUGFIXES:

• Several issues with payments sorted (some frontend, some backend crashes)
• Several game & web server crash fixes.
• Fixed an issue, where an away player at seat "s1" could get charged a blind, if another player joined the room and started a game. Potentially also resolved some other weird edge cases with blind payments.
• Reworked how some disconnection work at the end/Start of hands - potentially resolving the "game froze for me at showdown" issue. If you still experience this issue, or get a "disconnected" popup after a hand ended (while you were actively playing on the tab), please submit a bug report, with the hand log information - as we now have some additional logging available for this.
• Added several more backend logs, to help us continue getting deeper into some bugs.

IMPROVEMENTS/CHANGES:

• New memberships pricing ($4.99 vs $3.99 before) takes affect today - any existing subscriptions will retain their old pricing, as long as you keep your subscription active.
• Added "10k bonus gold on signup" badge on "login required popup" from lobbies.
• Profile page, reduced size of rankings & staking icons, to not require as much scrolling.

Today's update addresses some bugfixes and misc UI improvements:

BUGFIXES:

• We've implemented several changes, that may(or may not) improve the various situations with very weird in-game situations, such as suddenly broken hands, hands not starting, hands abruptly ending for no reason etc. We are NOT sure if these issues will be fixed by today's changes, but there's a good chance several of these issues might be severely improved. It is also possible, that these changes might cause some new weird issues (unlikely, but a possibility - as it is hard for us to test all situations in our test environment realistically). So please, if you spot any new sudden weird issues, do let us know so we may adjust/revert the update, if necessary. However, likelyhood is, that several things will be improved - we'll continue to follow our data (we've also added more useful debug logs, as we continue looking in all the bugs you have reported).
• Watch reward some UI bugfixes.
• Fixed an issue after a purchase, where an infinite loading screen could show.
• If a user had to go all-in for a blind, with amount less than the blind size, the hand log would improperly show as if the user paid the full big blind in the hand logs.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Check your profile for a bit of a sneak peek of what's coming soon (possibly before end of April - ETA is not confirmed yet!)
• After some requests, we've made your folded folded cards a bit more visible (less dark).
• We've added a "Free chips" button at the top of chips page, to help make known that there's ways to restack chips for free each day.
• Added new DB indexes, to help improve performance of various queries.

We’ll continue to focus on bug fixes for at least the next week or two, so expect more general improvements to be deployed soon! Our other developer is also working on some exciting new features - sneak peek in the profile page ;)

- Poker Patio team

Today's update brings a way for you to be able to get extra chips every day, as well as help support our continued upkeep and development of Poker Patio:

You can now go to https://pokerpatio.com/chips

And at the bottom you will be able to watch a video ad, which will grant you 150 chips. You can watch 2 ads every 3 hours. For the ads to work you must have any ad blockers disabled for our site - let us know if you run into any issues with the ad viewing process!

NEW:

• Lobbies tables will now have an infinite scroll, without the need to switch pages, to make finding your favorite rooms easier than ever!
• To non-chop rooms, we've added new on-table banners, that helps promote the availability of chip rooms - we expect this to extend the regular userbase that play chips, and make it more competitive!

BUGFIXES:

• Several web server crash fixes
• We've fixed some issues, where if you got the "Tried to raise/call/check but the game folded me instead" but, it would still take your chips and add them to the rake, while still folding you. Now if that happens, at least you will not be losing your chips even if the system "detects that you shouldn't be able to raise/call/check". We've also added more logging to help us dive deeper into the issue and try to get the route cause sorted.
• Other minor improvements to help with the reduction of some bugs and/or additional logging to help us debug further.

What's next for Poker Patio?

At least for another week or two, one of our developers will continue focusing on bugfixes & improving overall stability, to hopefully get to the bottom of some of the few remaining critical bugs. Our other developer will begin work on the leaderboards system.

We will provide more information in the following weeks, along with more accurate estimates of when first leaderboards will see the light of day :)

- Poker Patio team

Hey everyone!

Today marks the official end of our public chips beta and the launch of the full chip system and chip-based play! Jump in and start building your bankroll: https://pokerpatio.com/lobbies

We want to give a huge thank you to everyone who participated in testing. Your feedback helped us identify and squash many issues pre-release. While we’re still working through a few obscure crashes and edge-case bugs, we’re happy to report the system is already running quite stable.

With the launch, chip packages are now live and available for purchase. Each package includes a first-time buyer bonus, all claimable independently. View here: https://pokerpatio.com/chips

As previously announced, beta balances and stats were reset and the following chip rewards were issued based on total hands played:

• 25+ hands - 10,000 chips
• 50+ hands - 20,000 chips
• 100+ hands - 40,000 chips
• 200+ hands - 60,000 chips
• 500+ hands - 100,000 chips
• 1,000+ hands - 200,000 chips

As part of the live launch, we've added chip awards for Gold members. Gold now includes a 5x daily login bonus (5,000 chips) and 30,000 weekly bonus chips (unclaimed weekly bonuses stack up).

This launch lays the foundation for a ton of features to come, we’re incredibly excited for what’s ahead and will be sharing more details over the next few weeks. Read more about this update: https://pokerpatio.com/blog/official-release-of-chip-system-and-chip-purchases/

Please report any bugs or reset bonus issues here: https://pokerpatio.com/contact/feedback-and-bugs/

Now… let’s get to the chip tables! ♠