How to Play — Solana Poker Chain

🎯 The goal: make the best 5-card hand using your 2 private cards plus the 5 shared community cards on the table. The highest-ranking hand at showdown wins the pot.

Get in the game — 5 steps

1

Connect your wallet — click Connect Wallet (Phantom) at the top.

2

Deposit SOL — open Wallet and send SOL to your treasury address (min 0.05 for the Rookie table). Your $SOLCASH tops up 1:1. Deposit only from your connected wallet.

3

Enter a table — pick a room from the Lobby and click ENTER.

4

Take a seat — click any empty “Sit Here” seat. Your buy-in is deducted and you're dealt into the next hand.

5

Play your turn — when it's your turn, the Fold / Check / Call / Raise buttons appear at the bottom. Choose your move.

Your betting actions

Fold

Give up the hand. You lose whatever you've already put in the pot.

Check

Pass without betting — only if no one has raised.

Call

Match the current bet to stay in the hand.

Raise

Increase the bet. Others must call your raise to continue.

How a hand flows

Blinds (forced bets start the pot) → each player gets 2 cards → betting on Preflop → Flop (3 cards) → Turn (+1) → River (+1) → Showdown (cards revealed, best hand wins).

Hand rankings — strongest to weakest

Who wins, who loses

You win if…

you have the highest hand at showdown, or
everyone else folds — you take the pot without showing.

Winner takes the whole pot (minus a 5% platform rake). Tie = pot is split evenly.

You lose if…

you fold, or
your hand is lower than the winner's at showdown.

You only lose the chips you put into the pot — never more than that.