Card Riot: Poker

Turn any room full of phones into a televised poker tournament.

🛠 Now in Beta. Card Riot: Poker is a beta test release — you're playing an early version, so features may change and you may hit the occasional bug. Spot something off? Please report it. Your feedback shapes the final game.

No app. No accounts. No downloads. Players scan a QR code, the action lights up the big screen, and suddenly your living room, bar, or event hall looks like a primetime poker broadcast — complete with a live announcer calling the drama as it happens.

Built for live events - Card Riot hands the host a control room and gives everyone else the best seat in the house.

For entertainment purposes only. Card Riot simulates card play for fun and is not a gambling product.

One room. Four screens. Total showtime.

The host runs the show from a console. The action plays out on a cinematic big-screen HUD. Every player controls their hand from their own phone. It all stays locked in sync in real time — so the moment someone shoves all-in, the whole room feels it at once.

Scale from heads-up to a packed house

Start with two players or fill the room with dozens. Card Riot automatically spreads players across tables, rebalances as people bust out, breaks down short tables, and narrows everything toward one final table and a single champion — all managed for you, all narrated like a real tournament. Need bodies at the table? Drop in bots that play real strategy with a lifelike 1–5 second "think."

Pick your game: 5-Card Draw or Texas Hold'em, switchable per tournament.

A broadcast, not a screen

The HUD is a full TV production. A director's video wall shows every table at once, then cuts and zooms to wherever the action is hottest. Name-plate seats, animated chip stacks, the dealer button, turn countdown rings, lower thirds, a live ticker, and sound effects for every chip, deal, all-in, bust, and win. Winner banners. Final-table moments. Champion crownings.

And when you flip on the voice announcer, the room gets a real play-by-play: "At the Shark Tank, Alice takes it down with a full house."

The host is the director

The console is a sleek dark-felt-and-gold control room that works on tablet or phone:

• A big QR + access code so anyone can jump in anytime
• A live table board showing seats, chips, pots, and who's on the clock
• Full settings: variant, table size, starting stacks, bots, timing, and a blind-schedule editor with auto-advancing levels and a live countdown
• Player-Controlled mode (players start and tables self-manage) or Host-Controlled mode (you create, name, and rename tables, seat players, and direct the consolidation yourself)
• Pause, resume, restart, or spin up a fresh tournament — plus saved past results to relive old runs

Built for players, not headaches

The phone controller is fast and tactile: draggable cards you can reorder, tap-to-discard in 5-Card Draw, touch betting with a raise slider, win animations, a private action log, and a live leaderboard. Lose connection mid-hand? Refresh and you're dropped right back in with the correct time to act.

Keep the sponsors happy

A real ad pipeline plays full-screen video, audio, or image breaks — on an automatic timer or whenever the host calls one.

Card Riot: Poker — every room becomes the main event. ♠

🛠 A note from the test crew: Card Riot: Poker is still in beta, so things may shift between updates and a few bugs may sneak through. If you find one, please report it — every report helps us sharpen the game before launch. Thanks for playing the early version.