POKER CHIPS

Support

Chips and cards for a poker night, in the same room or across town.

Getting help

Email kare.oja@outlook.com. Tell me which device and iOS version you are on, and what happened just before the problem. I read every message.

Inviting people to a table

The table has a six-character code, and the share button sends it as a link: pokerchipsapp.com/j/<code>. On a phone that has the app, tapping the link opens it straight into joining with the code filled in. Without the app it opens a page showing the code.

The code always works on its own too — it is the one that gets read aloud across the table.

Devices cannot find each other

Playing in the same room, every device must be on the same Wi-Fi network. A phone on mobile data will not find the table, and neither will one on a guest network that isolates clients from each other.

The first time you open a table, iOS asks for permission to find devices on your local network. If you declined it, the app cannot see anything: turn it back on in Settings → Poker Chips → Local Network.

Playing remotely there is no such requirement — everyone just needs an internet connection and the table code.

The host's phone died mid-evening

In a local game, anyone at the table can take over. On another device, open the app and choose Take over the table. Chip counts and the dealer button carry over.

One limit: if the app was dealing the cards, the current hand is lost with the host's device, because nobody else has the deck. Start the next hand and carry on.

In a remote game the table lives on the server, so the table remains available: open the app again and choose Resume session.

Stepping away, and leaving early

The session sheet has Take a break for the whole table, and your own row has Sit out for stepping away without leaving. No new hand starts while a break is on, and a break called mid-hand takes effect when the hand ends. Blinds missed while away are not collected on return.

Cash out and leave ends your evening: your chips are counted, you leave when the current hand is done, and your result stays in the settlement. The app asks before it does it.

Reading the result

The settlement shows who owes whom, in chips or in a unit you chose when the table was created. The share button makes a card you can send to the group chat: standings, the night's winner and the number of hands. Who pays whom is not on that card — it is read from the settlement itself.

There are no accounts

Nothing to sign up for and nothing to remember. In local play, game traffic stays between the devices on your Wi-Fi; a content report is sent only when you explicitly submit one. In remote play, the table runs on our server and stops being restorable 24 hours after its last activity. Public reveals and the showdown verification seed may be saved with that table record. Details are in the privacy policy.

Either way, deleting the app mid-session loses that session on your phone.

Contact

kare.oja@outlook.com