About Patch-Patch

Patch-Patch is a free social poker game you play in the browser, on a phone, a tablet or a computer. It is named after its own game, Patch-Patch: poker on three boards at once, where each player splits twelve cards into three Omaha hands and each board pays a third of the pot. Next to it are the two classics, NL Hold'em and PL Omaha, all played with the same play chips.

Why it was made

The idea behind Patch-Patch is a poker hand where the most interesting decision comes after the flops are dealt, when you decide which of your cards play which board. Splitting twelve cards between three flops is a puzzle with a clock on it, and the scoop, winning all three boards, gives every hand something to play for. Omaha players already know how each board plays; everyone else learns the "exactly two" rule in a minute.

The rest of the app is built around playing that game comfortably: tables for two or three players at every stakes and three speeds, private tables you share with friends by a link, a tour that plays a whole hand with you, and the game in 20 languages.

Who makes it

Patch-Patch is made and run by the Patch-Patch team. The articles and rules on this site are ours too, written from the game's own code so that what they say is what happens at the table. You can write to us at support@patchpatch.app about anything: a question, a bug, an idea, or your account.

Play chips only

Patch-Patch has no real money anywhere, and that is permanent.

Chips are play money. They can't be bought, cashed out, sent to other players or won as prizes. There are no purchases in the game.
Free chips come from playing: 400 to start, a daily bonus, missions and rare feats, and a one-time bonus of 400 for signing in with Google. Where ads are available you can choose to watch a short video ad for 200 chips; there are no ads at the table and watching is never required.
The rake is play chips too. From 10-20 blinds up, a public table keeps 3% of each pot that sees a flop, at most three big blinds; lower stakes and private tables have none. It keeps the economy of free chips in balance.
Adults only. Patch-Patch is for players 18 or older (or the age of majority where they live, if higher). It is for amusement only, and practice or success at social poker does not imply future success at real-money gambling.

The House players

While the community is small, a table might otherwise sit empty. So at the 5-10 and 10-20 tables, in every game and at every speed, House players may fill empty seats so a game can start. They are computer players run by Patch-Patch, and we say so plainly:

Their seats wear a House badge, so you always know who they are.
They play with the house's chips, never with yours, and they give up their seat when a player wants it.
They see only what any player in their seat sees: their own cards and the table. Nobody's hidden cards.
Above 10-20, and at private tables, you play with other people only.

Fair cards

Every hand is shuffled on our server, with a fresh shuffle of the full 52-card deck for each hand drawn from a cryptographic random number generator. The server deals, checks every action against the rules, and decides every board with the same evaluator for everyone. Nobody, House players included, sees a card before it is dealt to them or shown at the showdown.

Your account and your privacy

You can play as a guest with just a name, or sign in with Google to keep your chips and progress on every device. The Privacy Policy says what we keep and why, the Terms of Service are the rules of the service, and you can delete your account at any time, from the app or the web.

Keep up

The What's new page lists every change to the game as it happens, dated. The FAQ answers the most common questions in all 20 languages, and the rules and strategy articles go deeper.