Texas Hold'em

Multiplayer No-Limit style Hold'em tables on metalyio.com. Up to 10 seats per table.

Goal

Make the best 5-card poker hand using your 2 hole cards and the 5 community cards. Win pots by having the best hand at showdown, or by making everyone else fold.

Hand rankings (high → low)

• Royal Flush · Straight Flush · Four of a Kind · Full House
• Flush · Straight · Three of a Kind · Two Pair · One Pair · High Card

Ties split the contested pot. Kickers are compared in rank order.

Table flow

• Create or join a table (optional 6-digit password). You may only sit at one table at a time.
• Host presses Start when ≥2 players are seated. Hands continue automatically until ≤1 player remains with chips (or everyone leaves).
• Blinds: Small Blind / Big Blind. Button rotates each hand. Heads-up: dealer posts the small blind and acts first preflop.
• Streets: Preflop → Flop (3) → Turn (1) → River (1) → Showdown.

Actions

• Fold — give up the hand.
• Check — pass when there is nothing to call.
• Call — match the current bet.
• Raise — additional chips you put in this action (final street total = your street contribution so far + Raise). Minimum raise size equals the previous full bet/raise this street (at least 1 SB; preflop first raise is to 2 BB). Shortcuts: 1/4 POT, 1/2 POT, POT. All-in is not bound by the minimum.
• All-in — commit your remaining stack (exempt from the minimum raise).

Decision time is set when the table is created (10 / 20 / 30 seconds). Timeouts auto check or fold.

Pots & all-in

• Chips move into the pot immediately when bet.
• If someone is all-in for less, matching amounts form the main pot; excess from deeper stacks forms side pot(s) that the short stack cannot win.
• Uncalled bets are returned when others fold or when no one matches an overbet.

Seats & host

• Click an empty seat to request a move at the next hand.
• Leaving mid-hand auto-plays for you until the hand ends, then removes you.
• Host may remove or blacklist a player. Host leave transfers host to another seated player, or deletes the table if empty.

Rebuy (cash)

If your stack hits 0 at the end of a hand, you are auto-refilled to the table buy-in. The seat shows Down X BI for how many buy-ins you are underwater this session.

Tournament mode

Available when creating a table (admin only). After the first Start, everyone seated becomes a contestant; the table becomes a system room (no host). Contestants who leave stay seated and auto check/fold until they return. Late joiners spectate and can see all hole cards.

• Timer runs from tournament start (survives server restart).
• Blinds ×2 after 1/3 of the duration, ×2 again after 2/3 — applied when the next hand starts (never mid-hand).
• Extra buy-ins (0–2) are set at create; after that, bust = elimination → spectate.
• When time ends, the current hand finishes, then rankings and rating updates appear.