Five Card Draw (listed in the menu as Five Card Draw; server game type Cowboy Draw) is a four-seat, six-hand tournament. Each player receives five hole cards — there are no community cards.
You play no-limit betting with a flat ante each hand, a shared draw phase (replace 0–3 cards), then a second betting round and showdown. Chip stacks determine who finishes 1st and 2nd when the tournament ends; prize stars are paid from the tournament pot.
The server is fully authoritative: deck, pot, legality, timers, side pots, and payouts are enforced on the server. The client polls for state and sends your actions.
Tournament & Buy-in
Setting
Value
Players per table
4 (bots fill empty seats)
Hands per tournament
6 (may end earlier; see Payouts)
Buy-in cost
100 ⭐ per seat entering the pot
Starting chips
1,000 chips per buy-in / rebuy
Starting account stars
2,000 ⭐ (displayed in the game bar)
Base prize pot
400 ⭐ (4 × 100) before rebuys or mid-game joins
Empty seats are filled by AI opponents so a table can start with fewer than four humans. The dealer button rotates each hand and sets action order only (there are no blinds).
Hand Flow
Each of the six hands follows this sequence:
Antes posted — every live seat posts 25 chips (or their remaining stack if shorter; see Betting).
Betting round 1 — action starts left of the dealer; players check, bet, call, raise, or fold until the round closes.
Draw phase — all non-folded players simultaneously choose 0–3 discards and receive replacements.
Betting round 2 — same as round 1.
Showdown — surviving players reveal; best five-card poker hand wins the pot (side pots apply).
Hand readout — results and optional rebuy (hands 1–5 only).
After hand 6, the table enters a grand readout instead of a normal hand readout, then may start a new tournament or dissolve.
Betting & Antes
No-limit — you may bet any amount from the minimum up to your entire stack on your turn.
Minimum bet / raise size:50 chips (when opening or raising).
Uniform ante:25 per live player at the start of each hand. There is no big blind or small blind.
Because play is ante-based, the first betting round can be checked around if nobody opens with a bet.
All-ins are allowed. Short stacks create side pots; each pot is won only by players who matched into it.
If you have fewer than 25 chips at hand start, you post what you have as a partial ante and are all-in for that amount.
Available actions: fold, check (if no bet to you), call, bet, and raise. Min-raise equals the previous bet or raise increment.
Draw Phase
Each non-folded player may discard 0, 1, 2, or 3 cards and receive the same number of new cards from the deck.
All players choose during one synchronous window (see Timers).
Other players see only the count you drew (e.g. “2”), not which cards you kept or received.
If you do not submit before the draw timer expires, you stand pat (0 discards).
Failing to act during a betting round folds you; standing pat applies only to draw timeouts.
Hand Rankings
Showdown uses standard five-card poker rankings (high to low):
Royal flush / straight flush
Four of a kind
Full house
Flush
Straight
Three of a kind
Two pair
One pair
High card
Muck rule: if everyone else folded, the winner’s hole cards are not revealed. At a multi-way showdown, all surviving hands are shown.
Timers & Readouts
Phase
Time limit
Your betting action (bet / check / fold / raise)
20 seconds
Draw phase (all players)
30 seconds
Hand readout (after hands 1–5)
20 seconds
Grand readout (after hand 6)
35 seconds
Timers are enforced by the server; the client displays the countdown from server time.
Rebuy, Leave & AFK
Rebuy
If you bust to 0 chips, you may rebuy during the hand readout after hands 1–5 (not during the grand readout after hand 6).
Cost: 100 ⭐ added to the tournament pot; you return with 1,000 chips.
You must be at 0 chips to rebuy — you cannot rebuy with a short stack.
Unlimited rebuys per player while eligible.
Leave
Use Leave during a readout to release your seat and leave the table. You are not entitled to a payout from that tournament.
During the grand readout you may leave to join a different table via the matchmaker.
AFK & bots
If you miss a betting timer, the server completes your action (typically check if free, otherwise fold to a bet).
If you miss the draw timer, you stand pat.
After three consecutive auto-fold hands, your seat may be released for matchmaking; bots drive until a human joins or the tournament ends.
You can press Resume during a readout to reset the auto-fold streak if you return before the next deal.
Prize Pool & Payouts
The tournament pot grows by 100 ⭐ for each buy-in, rebuy, or human who joins mid-tournament (replacing a bot seat). Payouts use a 3-to-1 split between 1st and 2nd by chip count at the end:
Outcome
Payout
Clear 1st and 2nd by chips
75% of pot to 1st, 25% to 2nd
Only one player with chips left (no eligible rebuy)
Winner takes 100% of pot
Tie for 1st (same top chip count)
Pot split equally among tied leaders; no 2nd-place share
Tie for 2nd
The 25% second-place share is split among tied 2nd-place players
Example: four buy-ins, no extras → 400 ⭐ pot → 300 ⭐ / 100 ⭐. Four buy-ins plus two rebuys → 600 ⭐ pot → 450 ⭐ / 150 ⭐.
After the grand readout, if at least two humans remain reserved at the table, a new six-hand tournament may start automatically with fresh 1,000-chip stacks and a new base pot.