HD Poker News

Welcome to Winterland 2021!

We've got a ton of festive goodies and events for you, including:

Six new avatars - Petra, Walrus, Winterland Bill, Festive Balthazar, Festive Melchior, and Festive Gaspar!

Special Winterland MTTs with a top prize of Winterland Chests and one of the new avatars.

Winterland Chest Table Drops at Shark Tank, Elitist, and Nose Bleeds stakes.

Warm wishes to everyone for a safe and happy Holiday season with friends and family!

Our third anniversary celebration continues!

As our way of thanking you, we’ve added a special in-game gift for you to open right now. Sign in, go to the in-game Store, unwrap, and enjoy.⠀

Thanks again from all of us on the HD Poker team. You’ve made the last three years awesome, and we’re excited for the millions of hands yet to be played.

You know what this week is? It’s our Third Anniversary!

To celebrate, we’ve got two new packs in the HD Poker in-game store and a lot of fun events, perfect for playing poker and celebrating with us the next seven days at the tables.

Six MTTs will run each day with a top prize of either Ancient Wanderer, Astronaut, or Tiny Pig Avatars.
Thank you for the good memories playing HD Poker over the years, the friendships made, and the fun times had.

The HD Poker team hopes you enjoy the celebration!

We are happy to announce the release of a long awaited game type - MTTs! A "Multi-Table Tournament" (or MTT) is a tournament in which multiple tables of players play down to just one table, where a winner will eventually be crowned. An unlimited number of players can join, with each player adding to the prize pool!

Players can advance without having to beat everyone at their table, which differs from our previous Shootout format.

Currently, you can check out the in-game Lobby to play in Season of Shadows MTTs using a Pumpkin Token as entry.

Good luck and have fun!

We've added the long-awaited Multi-Table Tournament (MTT) game mode!
True to the name, MTTs take place over many tables at once. However, unlike Shootouts, this mode will jump players to new tables as others are eliminated (or new players join) to keep a relative balance. Tables will be removed as the number of remaining players dwindle, until one table remains. Players may be able to "Late Join" an MTT for a certain period after a game has started.

[h3]Changes / New[/h3]

• Lobby now lists all available and upcoming quickplay STTs and MTTs
  
• Lobby now has a "Create Home Game" button
  
• You can now choose to show one -or- both of your cards at the end of a hand
  
• You can now bind your spacebar to an action
  
• Clicking on a STT/MTT game's current blinds in the top left will now reveal a blind structure flyout, including breaks
  
• Active breaks are now displayed prominently in the bottom right of a game view
  
• New gameplay setting: "Show Flop/Turn/River", defaults ON
  
• Dealers now have a card shuffler animation on the table
  
• Dracula and Ragnarok rooms now have passive animations
  

[h3]Tweaks[/h3]

• Table hole card now have a more exaggerrated perspective
  
• Table gifts now sit directly in front of players to avoid confusion as to who it belongs to
  
• Table cards and chip positions adjusted to accommodate new gift positions
  
• Third-person nameplate has been refactored to always show your name
  
• Namplates now flash when its your turn, and the countdown animation is slightly delayed before starting
  
• Avatars at tables and your dashboard are now thinly stroked with a semi-transparnet black line for clarity
  
• Hole cards on the table are now thinkly stroked and will now always fan outward despite table position/rotation
  
• Lobby standard game filter no longer has a blind range
  
• Lobby standard games will now list up to 50 rows per page
  
• Lobby loads are much quicker, resizing much more responsive
  
• Lobby now passively reloads itself on a periodic timer
  
• Tables you are playing at now appear with a green tint in thee Lobby
  
• A new seat effect has been added to symbolize an MTT jump-in / jump-out.
  
• Timebomb dealer no longer changes to a skeleton when the bomb explodes
  
• Lobby STT/MTT sidebars now show a list of players queued for that game
  
• Lobby STT/MTT sidebars now show the first place prize under their images
  
• Shootout final tables now have a dedicated blue/purple icon
  
• Halloween skin updated
  
• Now clamping outgoing gem trades to a player's max gem count when rounding errors push value above it