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Changelog

Follow new updates and improvements to Phenom Poker.

Platform Updates October 23rd

πŸ” New Login and Sign-up

  • The login and registration screens have a new look, with a promo carousel next to the form on desktop

  • On mobile, promos sit in an image band above a form that slides up from the bottom

  • How you sign in doesn't change

πŸ† Tournament Lobby Redesign

  • The tournament lobby page has a fresh look to match the redesigned lobby

  • Each tournament type now has its own colour across the page header and summary cards

  • The top 3 places show medals, busted players are dimmed, and re-entries show as a Γ—N tag next to the player's name

  • PKO and mystery bounty tournaments now label the bounty clearly on Players, Payouts and Results

  • Long Early Bird titles now wrap instead of getting cut off

  • On mobile the page scrolls as one, so tabs and tiles are no longer cropped

πŸ“± Mobile Thumb Ring

  • At mobile tables, a new Thumb Ring puts Chat, Menu, Time bank and Sit out in one arc your thumb can reach

  • Menu, hand history and chat open in one see-through drawer that you can expand or minimise

  • Chat has Table, Global and System tabs, and hand history shows the total and your share on split pots

  • Join Waitlist and Sit back are full-width buttons, and your hand strength sits under your nameplate

  • When you're watching, you get a Chat and Menu ring, and the Menu links to the tournament lobby

  • OFC and Taiwanese tables use a flat row instead of the arc

πŸŽ₯ Watch Live Streams From the Table

  • When a streamer is live, rest on their red name at the table to open a card with a Watch stream button

  • On mobile, tap the player and hit Watch in Player Info

  • Works at cash, tournament, OFC and Taiwanese tables

🎨 Avatar Bodies and Hair Under Hats

  • Pick your avatar's body from the new Rig category on the avatar page: the Funko Pop male or the new Funko Pop female

  • Every outfit, hat, hairstyle and beard works on both bodies, and both are available for everyone

  • Most hats now keep your hair and beard visible, tucked under the hat instead of hidden

  • Ponytails and twin tails hang down from under the hat, and short cuts keep their shape at the rim

✨ Improvements

  • Emojis now have a 10-second cooldown across all your tables, with a countdown on the picker so you know when you can send the next one

  • Identity verification now explains why before it starts: anyone can browse and watch, and you only need to verify to sit, enter a tournament or deposit

  • PHNM purchases keep tracking if you close the window or reload. Progress shows in the lobby and you get a notification when the swap completes

  • Added a Phenom Classic background which can now be recoloured like table felts, from the avatar page, Settings β†’ Appearance or the table look menu

  • Weekly Rewards cards show a Pending state while last week's rewards are processed, so you know they're on the way

  • Wallet Summary now includes your staked PHNM in your PHNM total and shows the rakeback boost staking gives you

  • Action labels (Fold, Call, Bet…) and PKO bounty badges now slide into place without a wobble

  • Showdown hand badges now have a soft glow, gold for high and blue for low

  • In the cash table preview, Join Waitlist is now a secondary button so Open Table stands out

πŸ› οΈ Fixes & Bugs

  • Fixed a rare issue where a large tournament could freeze just before the final table

  • Tron withdrawals now show a more accurate delivery estimate for your wallet

  • Fixed the Tron withdraw wallet picker showing "Not a valid address" when a valid wallet was selected

  • Fixed Archie side pots going to an all-in player who wasn't eligible for them

  • Fixed a tournament freeze that could happen when saving a hand's results briefly failed

  • Pending rakeback in the lobby wallet now updates after every hand, without a page refresh

  • Fixed some deposits from other networks getting stuck instead of being credited to your balance

  • Hand names on showdown badges no longer cut off the bottom of letters like g, p and y on mobile

  • Winning-hand and draws-left badges are now centred on the mixed-game label

  • On mobile, satellite previews now glow in the colour of the tournament they qualify you for

Platform Updates October 16th

🎨 New Seat Nameplates

  • Every seat has a redesigned nameplate with a round country flag, the player's name and their stack

  • Streamers and ambassadors are now shown by name colour (red for streamers, purple for ambassadors) instead of badges

  • Player notes at a glance: if you've noted a player, a corner of their plate shows your note colour. Hover it to see your three newest notes

  • The turn timer now runs around the border of the acting player's plate. It fades to red in the last seconds and turns purple on time bank

  • The acting seat now gets a soft pulsing ring around the avatar, so it's easy to spot whose turn it is

  • Big stacks always show the full amount, never shortened to K or M

  • In capped games, the plate also shows the player's total stack in brackets

  • In draw games, a pill shows how many cards each player drew. Choose how it sits next to action labels in Settings β†’ Gameplay β†’ Table β†’ Action label with count

  • Players sitting out show a countdown, plus an SB/BB badge when they owe blinds

  • Your time bank button shows your banked seconds and drains while your time bank runs

  • OFC and Taiwanese tables use the same new nameplate

✨ Improvements

  • Hand replays now show each player's all-in equity for every street after betting closes, including Hi/Lo splits, run it twice and double-board hands

  • Actions that used the time bank now show a +Ns timebank tag in hand replays and downloaded hand images

  • Hand replays now open at showdown. Press play to watch the hand from the start

  • Narrow hand replay windows on desktop no longer show the mobile header and tab bar

πŸ•’ Time Zone & Time Format

  • New Time zone setting in Settings β†’ Appearance: pick any zone in the world, or keep your browser's default

  • Choose between 12-hour and 24-hour time

  • Every clock time follows your choice: tournament start times, tickets, transactions, sessions, rewards, hand history, table chat and quiet hours

🀝 Agent Dashboard

  • The new Agent Dashboard is now live for every agent, with Cash Rake, Tournament Rake and Player Rewards columns (also in the CSV export)

  • Total Rake Share now shows what you earn from every row, sub-agents included, and adds up to your payout

  • Expand a sub-agent to see how your earnings from their network break down

  • Creating tickets is clearer: every event shows its start time, entries, buy-in and registration status, and satellites are grouped under their target event

  • Paste a tournament ID or link to jump straight to that event, or browse all events with the lobby's filters and a date range

πŸ› οΈ Fixes & Bugs

  • Wallet balances now update reliably after buy-ins, cash-outs and transfers

  • Fixed a hand trying to start with too few active players after others sat out at the next big blind

  • Fixed some referral CPA payouts staying pending when the referrer's registration hadn't completed

  • Fixed rakeback payouts that could be interrupted during platform updates

Notifications - October 4th

⭐ Highlights

Notifications β€” Choose which alerts you get and where they arrive, and keep all your favourite tables and tournaments in one list.

Create a Game β€” Repeat a game in a mix with its own settings, and cap any no-limit or pot-limit game.

Faster showdowns β€” Split pots and side pots now play out about twice as fast.

πŸ”” Notifications

  • A new Notifications tab in Settings lets you choose which alerts you get and where they arrive: email, push or Telegram

  • Telegram & Discord β€” link your account in a couple of taps and get alerts as messages from the Phenom bot

  • Push notifications work in your browser, the installed mobile app and the desktop client. Tap one to go straight to the table or tournament

  • Favorite tournaments β€” star any tournament from its preview, on desktop or mobile. Each start time of a daily or weekly event can be starred on its own

  • Favorites list β€” tap Favorites in the Notifications tab to see every table and tournament you've starred, with each tournament's next start time. Remove any of them in one tap

  • Favorite tables β€” get an alert when a table you've starred gets its first player or starts dealing

  • Your turn to act β€” a push alert when it's your turn at a cash table and you're looking elsewhere. It goes only to the device you're playing on, so your other devices don't buzz

  • Your table needs you β€” a reminder when you're sitting out and your return would let play start

  • Tournament alerts β€” a heads-up 15 minutes before a tournament you've starred or registered for starts, and before late registration closes on a starred tournament with an overlay

  • Pause alerts for 1, 4 or 8 hours or until tomorrow, with a countdown showing when they turn back on, or set daily Quiet Hours

  • On the installed mobile app, a one-tap prompt helps you switch push notifications on

πŸƒ Create a Game: Repeated Games and Caps

  • Repeated games can now be set up separately each time they appear in a mix, with their own stakes, ante, bring-in and cap

  • "Add again" copies a game with all of its settings, and changing the copy leaves the original as it was

  • Any no-limit or pot-limit game can now be capped from 20 to 100 BB with one Cap switch. You no longer need to pick a separate "Capped" version

  • Capped games show their cap wherever the game is named, for example "PLO Β· Cap 60 BB", and the lobby's Capped filter finds them

✨ Improvements

  • Showdowns now play about twice as fast, so split pots and side pots no longer hold up the next hand

  • Hands won without a showdown no longer light up the winner's cards or show a hand badge

  • Free tournaments now show FREE in the tournament flyout instead of 0.00

  • PSOP leaderboard now counts 25 and 50 CHIP events at x0.75 points, and buy-ins from 2,500 to 4,999 count at x1.75, as the published rules say

  • OFC and Taiwanese tables now use the same rule as other cash tables when you're alone at the table: you're sat out after 5 minutes disconnected, and after 6 hours connected you're asked "Still at this table?"

  • Chip and card animations at the table now run smoothly on mobile

πŸ› οΈ Fixes & Bugs

  • Fixed T$ registrations sometimes using a tournament ticket instead of T$, including after entering a password or choosing "Register anyway"

  • "Register anyway" on a password-protected tournament now asks for the password instead of failing

  • Fixed new tournament tables not starting in hand-for-hand mode when hand-for-hand was already on

  • Fixed the PSOP Series carousel not loading tournaments after the first page

  • Fixed the tournament chat card staying on its overlay after late registration. It now shows players, leader and prize

  • Fixed draw games letting you select cards to discard after the final draw

  • Folded cards you reveal during a showdown now show at full brightness instead of staying grey

  • Fixed the mobile table switcher appearing when you're seated at only one table

Earlier updates