Sponsored PR: SolPoker announces new player-run tables

Any player can now open a public or private cash table at SolPoker, set the game variant or let the button pick from five game modes each hand and change the blinds by majority vote. The tables charge no rake, and every deal is provably fair and verifiable on-chain.

SolPoker, an online poker room settled in USDC with deposits in SOL, has announced player-run tables, available to every signed-in player at solpoker.com. From the lobby, a player opens a cash table, names it, sets the blinds, the buy-in range and the number of seats, from two to nine, and leaves it public or protects it with a password. The table can be fixed to Texas Hold’em, pot-limit Omaha, Pineapple or Irish, or set to Dealer’s Choice, where the player on the button picks the game before each hand. Once play is under way, any seated player can propose a change of stakes; the proposal passes on a majority of the seats and takes effect between hands.

At a ‘Dealer’s Choice’ table the player on the button chooses from five games: Texas Hold’em, four-card and five-card pot-limit Omaha, Pineapple, in which each player receives three cards and discards one before the flop, and Irish, in which each player receives four cards, bets the flop with all four and then discards two. The choice is made in a short window before each deal.

Stake votes follow fixed rules. A proposal must keep the big blind within four times the table’s original blind in either direction, the small blind between a third and a half of the big blind, the minimum buy-in at no less than 20 big blinds and the maximum at no less than 40. Every seated player casts one ballot, which cannot be changed; at a six-handed table four votes carry the proposal, and at a heads-up table both players must agree. A passed vote is applied after a 15-second pause between hands, never during one, and a table’s stakes can change at most once an hour. The same voting applies at the room’s regular cash tables.

Opening a table requires a bankroll that covers its own minimum buy-in, which starts at $5, and each player can run one table at a time. Player-run tables take no rake, so a private game among friends costs its players nothing beyond the chips they put in play.

“A home game decides two things for itself that online rooms took away: what it plays and what it plays for. SolPoker can hand both back because it takes no rake, so it has no reason to steer players towards its own tables,” said Shurdha Klea, head of product at SolPoker.

“A password-protected Dealer’s Choice table with four friends is the game this format was built for, and it now takes a minute to set up.”

Hands at player-run tables are dealt under the same verifiable shuffle as the rest of the room. Before each hand the server publishes a SHA-256 commitment that fixes its secret seed, each seated player’s own seed and a future round of drand, the public randomness beacon operated by the League of Entropy; the commitment is anchored in a transaction on Base before that round exists, and any finished hand can be rechecked at solpoker.com/verify. Players sign in with a Solana or Ethereum wallet or a Google account and play in the browser on desktop or mobile, with no download.

About SolPoker

SolPoker is an online poker room at solpoker.com for real-money Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Pineapple and Irish, played in USDC with deposits in SOL, USDC or USDT on Solana and USDC on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base. Tables charge no rake, every shuffle is committed and anchored on-chain before the deal, and withdrawals are paid from published vault contracts to the player’s own wallet. SolPoker has no token or coin of its own. Play is open to adults in jurisdictions where online poker is lawful.

For more information, email: support@solpoker.com, website: https://solpoker.com, X: @solpoker_off