Face32: Draw Poker

Five cards each. Thirty-two in the deck. Every player's face at the table.

Face32: Draw Poker is closed poker the way it gets played around a kitchen table, not another copy of Texas Hold'em. The deck runs 7 through Ace — nothing lower — so every hand starts with something worth thinking about.

READ THE RANKING BEFORE YOU SIT DOWN

Standard poker order, with one deliberate exception:

High Card, Pair, Two Pair, Three of a Kind, Straight, Full House, Flush, Four of a Kind, Straight Flush, Royal Flush.

A flush beats a full house. In a 32-card deck the odds are not the odds you memorised, and the ranking follows the odds. The lowest straight is 7-8-9-10-J. There is no ace-low.

THE OPENING

You may open the betting only with a pair of Kings or better — and it is a right, not a duty. Sandbagging is legal, and good players use it. The opening bet is exactly the size of the pot. After that there is no cap at all: everyone still in, including the players who passed, may call, raise, or move all in.

Nobody opens? Everybody antes again, the cards are redealt, and the pot carries over. Pots get frightening quickly.

KEEP YOUR OPENERS

Whoever opened may not break the combination that gave them the right to open. Two pair with kings can shed the low pair. A pair of aces cannot throw an ace away to chase a flush. A raise lifts the lock, so once you are raised you are free to split and chase.

THE SQUEEZE

Exchange exactly one card and it comes back face down. Drag it clear with your thumb the way you edge one card out from under another, and read it a sliver at a time. Ignore it and it turns itself over. Turn the whole thing off in Settings if you would rather just see it.

FACE TO FACE

Every seat is a face, not a username. You see who called you, who folded instantly, and who has gone quiet for three hands. Mute anyone you like. Report and block anyone you do not.

AT THE TABLE

- Two to four players, no blinds, ante every deal, dealer rotates

- Buy-in is 40x the ante; tables open at a 10 ante

- A 15-second clock on every decision

- Draw counts are public — DREW 2, PAT, STAND — and discards sit face down beside each seat until the hand ends

- Showdown lays every remaining hand out face up and readable

- Last Hand reopens the showdown you just missed

- Sit down mid-hand and you wait out the pot you did not ante into. Nobody buys into a pot that has been anted five times over.

KEEP COMING BACK

A 30-day daily bonus ladder, three fresh missions every day, XP and levels that pay chips, and a profile that remembers your best hand, your biggest pot and every hand you have played.

PLAY MONEY ONLY — 18+

There is no real-money gambling in this game. Chips are play money, they cannot be cashed out, and they have no real-world value. Practice or success at social gaming does not imply future success at real-money gambling.