🚀New Era of Phenom Changes

• We’re actively transitioning into a new era of Phenom. As part of this effort, we’re Adding, Updating and Removing several features across our Website and the Phenom Poker app. This is an ongoing process, and we’re working as quickly as possible to make these improvements.

• Rank Tiers - Get your weekly rakeback in USDT. Want more? Buy and stake $PHNM to unlock Revenue Share and instantly level up your Rank Tier.

• Boosted Rakeback Rewards - Stake $PHNM to skyrocket your Rakeback percentage. More stake means more earned.

• Tier Warping - You can still grind your way up the status tiers to earn more rakeback, with no requirement to buy $PHNM. But now, you also have a new way to jump into a higher tier immediately by staking $PHNM.

• $PHNM Staking - You have a choice of two paths.

  1. The Escalator — stay flexible with no lock-ups. Start at a 0.25× multiplier and climb all the way to 1.50× over 24 months of continuous staking.

  2. The Hard Lock — lock in your commitment and unlock instant rewards. Choose your term and get a 1.50× multiplier immediately with a 24-

• Read More about The New Era of Phenom here!

• Read More about The Escalator here!

• Removed Rewards Manager > Redeem tab.

• Removed Current PHNM Price from Lobby and Rewards Manager > Summary tab.

🎯All In Equities

• We’ve added each player’s equity percentage (their chance of winning the pot) whenever one or more players are all-in. This gives players real-time insight into their winning probabilities.

• When Running It Twice or Running It Three Times, the equity percentages cycle to reflect each board being run.

• In Split Pot and High/Low games, equity percentages are shown separately for both the High and Low outcomes.

🎵New SFX & Volume Controls

• We’ve added separate Playing and Observing master volume sliders, allowing you to control sound levels depending on whether you’re actively playing or observing a game.

• We’ve also added individual volume sliders for Actions, Alerts, Chips, and Deal sound groups, giving you more precise control over specific sound effects.

• Finally, we’ve updated our core suite of sound effects for an improved overall audio experience.

🔥Table Chat & Emoji Updates

• We’ve added a clickable Emoji icon to the chat input, opening an Emoji Picker for quick and easy emoji selection.

• Sending 1, 2, or 3 emojis by themselves will now display an enlarged emoji instead of a standard chat bubble.

• Clicking another player’s alias in chat now opens the action menu, replacing the need to use the triple-dot menu.

• Ambassador and Streaming Live badges are now displayed.

• Reward Tier badges are now displayed when Enable Tier Frame is turned on.

💰Buy-In Modal Updates

• We’ve improved minimum and maximum value handling for Buy-Ins and Rebuys, ensuring inputs are validated more reliably.

• We’ve unified orange warnings and red alerts into a single, consistent messaging component.

• Clear warning and error messages are now shown when input values fall outside the required minimum or maximum limits.

🛠️Minor Improvements & Changes

• Swapped Buy-In and Prize Pool values on the Tournament Registration Modal.

• “My Tournaments” section always displays Registering, Late Registration or Running tournaments, irrespective of your filter settings.

• Tournaments Lobby, Column sorting removed from all columns.

• Build # moved away from action button area.

• Average Pot calculation based on a rolling average of the last 40 hands.

• Scroll Wheel Bet increments in small blinds.

• Clubs Coming Soon label has been removed - We are still planning this feature!

🐞Bug Fixes

• Fixed Sit and Go sorting to correctly order by highest player entries first

• Fixed “Sit Out All BB” to work while multi-tabling

• Fixed Average Pot resetting when the table becomes inactive.

• Fixed Sorting and Searching on the Friends Page.

• Fixed Referral Rake tooltip in the Referral dashboard to use the correct week boundary dates.

• Fixed wrapping of long toast titles and descriptions

• Fixed jitter in Wallet > Deposit modal

🚀 New & Upgraded Features

Reveal Folded Cards – Showdown Feature

You can now optionally reveal your folded cards at showdown!

When you are no longer active in the hand you can click any card in your hand to set it to be revealed during showdown. You can click again to unset cards if you change your mind.

The cards you’ve set to reveal (or are revealing if showdown is active) are shown at the bottom right of the table (bottom on mobile). You can also click these cards to unset and revealing them.

Cards can also be set/unset during showdown!

Spin Up Tables

We’re creating a new range of table options called Spin Up tables. These have low Buy-In ranging from 3BB to 10BB to allow for more affordable gameplay with less stack risk. Keep an eye out for the Spin Up tornado special Icon!

• NLH/PLO/PLO5 Stakes: 0.25/0.50 - 5/10

Table Join Status Labels

Clear visual labels now show players exactly where they stand when joining a table.

• “Reserving” - Shown when players have a Waitlist Modal showing.

• “Joining” - Shown when players have a Buy In Modal showing.

• “Adding Chips” - Shown when players have Confirmed to Buy In or Rebuy.

🛠️ Fixes & Polish

Mobile Tournament Lobby – Multi-Table Widgets

The Mobile tournament lobby now support widgets that display all active tables in multi-table events.

Desktop Table Layout Tweaks

Increased Table size, Refined spacing, alignment, and UI balance to make desktop tables feel cleaner and more readable.

Card Style Improvements

Micro-size card design has improved with increased clarity on rank/suit.
We’ve also slightly tweaked the layout positioning of card rank and the small suit icon.

Faster Leaderboard Meter Animation

Reduced animation count up time to 3s and adjusted easing curves for a snappier, more responsive leaderboard experience.

🔧 Infrastructure & Stability

Global App Versioning & Update Reliability

A new foundation for synchronized versioning across all app surfaces.
Improves deployment safety, reduces mismatched-client issues, and makes future rollouts more predictable.

Groundwork for Safer Future Deploys

Additional behind-the-scenes stability upgrades, monitoring improvements, and QA-friendly hooks that will support upcoming major features.

🏃🏼‍♂️‍➡️🏃🏼‍♂️‍➡️Run It Twice (RIT)

Players can now choose to Run It Twice or Run It Three Times when all-in, offering more ways to reduce variance.

We’ve added a toggle where you can choose how you want to automatically Run It

• "Automatically Run It Multiple Times" is OFF by default.

• To turn ON - Go to Settings > Tables > Toggle “Automatically Run It Multiple Times" ON

  • Then select "Never", "Twice", or "Three Times"

We’ve put together a blog post explaining in more detail how you can Run It! https://www.phenompoker.com/blog/run-it-twice-is-live-on-phenom-take-control-of-your-game

🛠️ Fixes & Bugs

• SB/BB Issues During Tournament Play
  Issue resolved when a player is seated in between the current SB/BB, forcing the current BB to take the BB twice.

• Mobile Stake Values Displaying Incorrectly
  Issue resolved where stakes values shown on the table did not have the correct value for PLO Mix, PLO Fusion and Big Bet Mix

🏆 Tournaments

• Tournament Rake Reduction: We reducing the rake on high Buy-In tourneys!
  100 - 499 USDT, reduced from 7% to 5.5%
  500+ USDT, reduced from 7% to 4%

• 💣 Bomb Pot Thursdays - New Weekly Special Tournament
  8pm GMT / PLO5 Variant / 150 Buy-In / 3,000 GTD

🚀 Features

• Prevent Folding When No Action Has Occurred
  Players can no longer accidentally fold when no action is required.

🛠️ Fixes & Bugs

• Final Table Splitting After Break Causes Tables to Freeze
  Issue resolved where tables became unresponsive after a break-time table split.

• Hide “Adding Chips” Label When Manually Rebuying During An Active Hand
  The visual indicator no longer appears mid-hand.

• Action Buttons Disappear When Clicking Various Actions
  Buttons now remain stable and visible after interacting with any action.

🏆 Leaderboards by Stake

• We’ve split the Grind Prix into three individual leaderboards; Micro+Low, Medium and High.

• There is no entry cost, you're automatically entered by playing at any cash table and earning at least 10, 25, or 100 USDT rake for the Micro+Low, Medium and High leaderboards respectively (500, 1250, 5000 points).

• You'll earn 50 points for every 1 USDT generated.

🪙 Stake Updates

Fixed Limit Games

• Micro: ≤ 2/4

• Low: > 2/4 and ≤ 8/16

• Medium: > 8/16 and < 100/200

• High: ≥ 100/200

No Limit & Pot Limit Games

• Micro: ≤ 0.25/0.50

• Low: > 0.25/0.50 and ≤ 2/4

• Medium: > 2/4 and < 25/50

• High: ≥ 25/50

🚀 New Features

• Bomb Pot Game Ante Display: Added clear ante information for all Bomb Pot tables in the lobby.

• Sit & Go Display Order: Improved Sit & Go game ordering for easier navigation and visibility. Sort order is by Buy-In, highest to lowest and then alphabetically by game type.

• IP Address Masking: Enhanced privacy and security by obscuring player IP addresses across the platform. Example: 123.*.*.456

🛠️ Fixes & Bugs

• Multiple Rebuy Fix: Resolved an issue preventing players from performing multiple rebuys properly.

• Leave Table Fix: Fixed a bug that caused players to remain stuck in contract after leaving a table.

• Waitlist Minimum Buy-In Requirement: Implemented consistent enforcement of minimum buy-in rules for players attempting to join the waitlist.

💪🏼 Hand Strength

• Hand Strength Display has returned! You can see your current hand strength below your nameplate on desktop (beside your nameplate on mobile).

• Double Board Bomb Pots show your hand strength for both top and bottom boards.

🏆 Tournaments

• Tournament Final Table balance adjustments for smoother play. Including a 30s pause for all tables to finish their final hand before play on the Final Table begins.

• Tournament performance optimizations for smoother user experience.

♠ Client Side & Gameplay

• Added Double Board Omaha to Circus Mix and Super Circus Mix.

• High Stakes Tables with the Real Names Special Icon show real names and default avatars. High Stakes Tables without the Real Names Special Icon will behave as per normal showing your Alias and selected Avatar.

🛠️ Fixes & Bugs

• Fixed an issue where POL deposits were not being sent correctly.

• Fixed an issue causing tournament special icons to display in the wrong column.

• Table backgrounds now correctly fill the table area when the aspect ratio is not maintained.

💣 Double Board Bomb Pot Cash Games!

It’s time to turn up the action! You can now jump into PLO 4/5/6 Double Board Bomb Pots on Phenom Poker!

What’s a Bomb Pot?
Everyone at the table antes up before the cards are dealt, and then, boom!....two boards run out. That means more action, more split pots, and way bigger swings. No preflop folds, just pure adrenaline from the very first card.

Where can you play?
We’ve got stakes for every bankroll, from $0.50 antes all the way up to nosebleed $400 ante games for the true high rollers.

If you’ve never played a bomb pot before, now’s your chance to feel the rush. If you have, you already know—this is where legends are made. Grab a seat, ante up, and let’s blast some boards.

🎨 Special Icons

We’ve added special icons to both the Cash Game Lobby and the Tournament Lobby. You can filter by these in the Filters pop up.

Note: We’ve removed the “i” info icon to indicate Real Names being displayed on some High Stakes tables. This has been replaced with the Real Names special icon.

⏰ The Waitlist is back!

• We’ve rebuilt our waitlist functionality and experience.

• When you are in the Waitlist and its your turn to take a seat, you will be immediately offered the seat and prompted to Buy In.

• If you are not currently viewing the table and your turn to sit arrives - We will attempt to open the table (if your pop ups are not blocked) else we will pop the Waitlist modal in the Lobby (or another open table). Taking your Seat from the Waitlist modal will then open the table and present you with the Buy In modal.

• You can elect to not Buy In - This will forfeit your seat and remove you from the Waitlist.

• For the smoothest experience, we encourage you to turn off pop up blocking.

🎨 Table Background & Card Back Design Updates

• We refreshed our Table Backgrounds, no longer are they trapped inside the table!

• Completely new table backgrounds; From red hot lava fields to beautiful cherry blossoms.

• Completely new card back designs; Try out an entire rainbow of card back options.

• We’ve updated the default purple card back to bring it into line with the new card back options.

• We’ve fixed the default table background glow, visible when you do not have a background selected, to match your selected felt color.

🛠 Fixes & Improvements

• Added table state recovery in case of a crash — tables now recover to their previous state in ~10 seconds.

• Fixed duplicate chat messages.

• Added retries to start tournament transactions in MTT & SNG to prevent hanging during initialization.

• Fixed SNGs not recreating automatically.

• Performance improvements across the platform.

• Fixed timebank not reaching 0 in certain scenarios (previously stuck at 1).

• Prevented tournament unregistration while the tournament is seating players.

• Fixed issue with draw games not dealing back all discarded cards.

• Added comma notation to the leaderboard scores.