August 24th, 2026

Platform Updates August 23rd

⭐ Highlights

CHIP — Our new in-game currency: one dollar-backed token, one chain, instant buy-ins and no gas fees.
Global Chat — One shared room for every signed-in player, reachable from the lobby, the side panel and table chat.
Hand History search — Paste a hand ID to jump straight to that hand, or pick a custom date range.
Hot Tables in the lobby — Hot games now sit in their own strip, with the exact bonus rakeback on the row.

💸 CHIP

CHIP is Phenom's new in-game currency — one dollar-backed token on one chain, replacing USDT on Polygon.

  • Deposit any major stablecoin and receive CHIP instantly in your wallet

  • Instant everything — tournament registration and unregistration, cash game buy-in and cash-out

  • Gas fees are covered by Phenom — you never see one

  • Cash out your way — choose the stablecoin and the chain you want to be paid on, instead of bridging by hand afterwards

  • One wallet, one chain — everything runs on Base, so the old bridging step is gone

  • 1 CHIP always redeems for 1 dollar-backed stablecoin, with reserves fully backed and auditable on-chain

  • Auto Top-Up keeps your stack loaded without a separate reload step

  • First-login setup is a single flow — authorising your wallet runs straight into converting to CHIP, with no dead wait and no raw signature prompts

👉 Read more about CHIP

💬 Global Chat

  • One shared room for every signed-in player — open it from the player side panel on desktop, the GLOBAL tab in table chat, or the top-left menu on mobile

  • Everyone in the room has passed KYC, and moderators watch it with the same tools they use at the table

  • A NEW MESSAGES divider marks where you left off — arriving in the room no longer counts as reading it

  • Unread dots on the chat entry points, so you can tell there's something new without opening the panel

🃏 Hand History Search

  • Search by hand ID — paste the ID straight from the replayer and go to that exact hand

  • Custom date range filter, so you're no longer stuck looking at Today

  • Hands from older sessions now turn up instead of the search claiming they don't exist

🔥 Hot Tables in the Lobby

  • Hot Tables now have their own strip above the All Tables list, so a hot game shows up even when your filters would have hidden it

  • The exact bonus rakeback you'd earn by sitting down now shows on the lobby row and in the preview flyout — no hover or tap needed

  • Hot Tables moved from last to second in the lobby category tabs

📱 Mobile Improvements

  • Top seats no longer sit underneath the multi-table tabs — players at the top of the ring are fully visible on every table size

  • The multi-table tab strip no longer nudges sideways when a tab lights up for your turn, so you can't mis-tap onto the wrong table

  • Slide-out menu labels are larger and easier to read

  • Tournament info: bigger icons, a right-sized Register button, and breathing room above it

  • The player info modal now scrolls on short screens — the notes list and "Write a note…" box are reachable again

  • A blocked chat message now tells you it was blocked instead of silently vanishing

🃏 Tables & Table Windows

  • The poker table renders at its intended size and position again — felt, seats, chips, buttons and fonts were all being drawn about 8% small, and the felt sat too low

  • Your action always registers. If a click is lost or refused anywhere between your table and the game engine, the action bar comes back instead of leaving you button-less until you time out

  • A table move keeps you in the window you're playing in instead of opening a second window and kicking you out of the first

  • Fixed duplicate table windows opening — one per open lobby window — when a seat came free

✨ Improvements

  • Cash lobby sorting now counts who's actually in the hand — a 5/6 table with three players sitting out no longer ranks alongside a 5/6 table where all five are playing

  • Lobby category tabs scroll cleanly at narrow widths, with a faded edge and paging arrows instead of a stray scrollbar

  • Cash table flyout splits Players and Info into switchable tabs, and now opens on mobile

  • Clicking the mini table in the lobby opens the table directly, clicking anywhere else on the row opens the flyout.

  • Countdown timers no longer jiggle as their digits tick

  • PKO bounty badges rebuilt to match their design — status-red treatment with the 3D PKO skull

  • Mini-table circles now match their design-system styles

  • Chat moderation now catches insults in languages other than English

  • PHNM price no longer stalls the page when the price feed is slow

  • Agent dashboard loads instantly, no more long delays

🛠️ Fixes & Bugs

  • Fixed all-in win percentages being materially wrong — post-flop equity is now exact, both in the badge and in the replayer

  • Fixed run-it-three equities counting duplicate dead cards

  • Fixed lowball showdown labels naming two unequal hands identically (both "6 Low"), which made an outright win look like a missed chop

  • Fixed the minimum raise after consecutive all-ins being offered below the previous all-in

  • Fixed Raise Any and Discard pre-action buttons at fixed-limit tables causing action buttons to disappear and timing you out

  • Fixed a pre-action click landing at the exact moment your turn starts being dropped, leaving you timed out and sat out

  • Fixed the bust-out modal during late registration — Re-Enter button, late-reg countdown and tournament title are back, and re-entry no longer spins forever

  • Fixed Hide Satellites in the tournament filters doing nothing

  • Fixed the Registration Successful toast appearing in every open window, and calling a re-entry a fresh registration

  • Fixed the tournament registration modal twitching when you press Register

  • Fixed satellite seat winners not being registered into the target tournament when settlement stalled

  • Fixed OFC cash tables getting stuck mid-hand and never finishing

  • Fixed deposit bonus awards occasionally paying the wrong amount