What's new in Patch-Patch
Every change to the game that you can see at a table or in the lobby, newest first. Patch-Patch is updated often; this page says what changed and when, in plain words.
Rules, hand rankings and strategy on the site
The site has grown beyond its front page and FAQ: the complete rules of Patch-Patch, NL Hold'em and PL Omaha, a hand rankings page with the odds of every hand, and six strategy articles on splitting your cards, the pot math of three boards and pot-only betting. Every example hand on them is checked by the game's own evaluator.
Hand rankings at the table
The hand rankings chart from How it works is now a tap away during a hand. Every table's menu (☰) has it, for everyone, and for your first 50 hands a Hand rankings button sits on the table itself. The chart lights up the rows your hands are right now: in Patch-Patch, each board's number on the row of the hand it makes. Experienced players can hide the button for good, and anyone can choose Always or Never in Settings > Gameplay > Hand rankings button.
A calmer table
- Back closes what you opened. Android's back button, Escape, and on the web the phone's back gesture or the browser's Back now close the menu, sheet or dialog on top (Settings, the chat, the hand rankings, the buy-in...), one per press, instead of leaving the screen.
- Leave the table? now opens in the app's own look instead of the browser's, and says what leaving does: mid-hand it folds your hand, and the rest of your chips go back to your wallet.
- Alone at a table where house players come, the waiting line says "Waiting for players · usually under a minute" instead of a seat count.
- Settings > Gameplay > Bet buttons is one row, closed until you open it, with a simpler editor.
- In my hand fills the table: the three boards grow into the space the old layout left empty.
Card colours and My cards
Two new choices in Settings > Gameplay, also in every table's menu:
- Card colours. Four colours (hearts red, diamonds blue, clubs green, spades black) stay the default; two colours give the classic deck, red and black. It applies to every card in every game.
- My cards. In Patch-Patch you can now see your 12 cards together in front of your seat, in three numbered groups of four, instead of four beside each board. The default is By the boards, as before.
House players at 10-20, and a thank-you
House players now fill empty seats at the 10-20 tables as well as 5-10, in every game and at every speed, so a game can start there too. And every player already registered when this update went out received 1,500 chips once, as a thank-you for testing Patch-Patch while it is new ("Thanks for testing" in the chip history).
Patch-Patch betting is pot-only
Every bet and every raise at a Patch-Patch table is now exactly the pot, before the flops and after them: check or bet the pot, and facing a bet, fold, call or raise the pot. The bet panel shows only those choices, with their amounts. Hold'em stays no-limit and Omaha pot-limit. The pot-only article explains what changes.
Your own bet buttons
Settings > Gameplay > Bet buttons lets you choose the quick sizes on the bet panel: before the flop in big blinds, after it as shares of the pot, two to four of each. Since the move to pot-only betting, they apply to Hold'em and Omaha.
A ten reads "10"
The ten's card face now reads "10", not "T", on every card in every game.
The showdown shows all three boards at once
At the end of a Patch-Patch hand, all three boards are decided and shown together, with every hand and every winner, instead of one board after another. The result stays on screen for 17 seconds at slow tables, 11 at mid and 7 at fast, then the scoop's celebration if there was one.
Updates no longer interrupt a hand
When Patch-Patch is updated, the hands being played now finish first. Players at a table see that an update is coming; once the hand is over, they're back in the lobby with their chips in their wallet, and they can sit down again a moment later.
The chat stays put
On phones and tablets, an open table chat no longer moves when it's your turn. A small alert tells you it's your turn and takes you back to the action in one tap. On phones, Play with friends moved to the lobby's toolbar, next to Filters and Stakes.
Change your player name
Any player, guests included, can change their name in Settings > Account, once every 30 days. The old name is kept for you for 30 days so nobody else takes it. Signing in with Google no longer fixes your name to your real one: you choose any free name.
Chips in front of the players
Bets in front of each player now show as chips as well as numbers, and a player who folds while the betting round goes on is shown as folded right away, his cards and his bet included.
Sit out, the live bet, and the house players' play
- Sit out next hand is a tap away on phones for the whole hand, even while the bet panel or the arrangement takes the bottom of the screen.
- The live bet, the one everyone else has to match, stands out on its player's seat.
- House players play a stronger, more balanced strategy instead of a passive one, and buy in for varied stacks within the table's range.
Daily bonus and missions rebalanced
The daily bonus and the missions now pay about half of what they did, each amount rounded to read well (an account's daily calendar is 100, 110, 125, 140, 150, 175 and 300 chips over seven days). The starting chips, the sign-in bonus and the chips for a rewarded video are unchanged.
The site, and every table from the start
- patchpatch.app has a front page and a FAQ, in all 20 languages, for anyone who hasn't played yet.
- The lobby has a table of every game at every stakes and every speed from the moment it opens, and more open as they fill.
- Guests see a Sign in button in the lobby's header, with what an account adds.
- Play with friends moved to the lobby's header, as Friends.
- Support has its own address: support@patchpatch.app.