✨ New Features from Patch 3!
AI Difficulty System — EASY / NORMAL / HARD
- Replaced NG+ with a three-tier difficulty system:
- EASY — the classic AI you know.
- NORMAL — opponents read the table within a session, play tighter, and start exploiting your tendencies.
- HARD — opponents keep a persistent scouting book on you (after the first televised venue), play aggressively, and have near-perfect fundamentals.
- You'll be prompted to pick a difficulty on your first run, and you can change it any time from the main menu (with confirmation if you have an active career, because progress will be lost).
Knockout Bounties
- Bounties added to marquee events: $500 on Riverboat and $100K on the Neon Championship — with a live in-game overlay and an end-of-event tally.
- Riverboat is now the televised "Riverboat Showdown At Sundown."
- $/BB Display Toggle: A single toggle now switches the pot, your stack, and opponent stacks between dollars and big blinds, with blinds always shown in dollars (of course).
- Big-blind readouts now go down to 0.1 BB instead of stopping at 0.9 BB. Based on your feedback — players were confused about why opponents kept surviving — this makes it clear when someone is truly hanging on by a thread with a fraction of a blind left.
🤫 Silently added on Patch 2 (announced recently):
Card Face Revamp
- Full-resolution cards now use traditional multi-pip layouts (2–10) inside a clean inset panel, with the Ace keeping its single large pip.
- Face cards (J/Q/K) are now pixel-art PNGs traced inspired by classic Solitaire decks — that instantly
recognizable retro look, instead of the old hand-drawn silhouettes.
Resolution Support
- Added a Resolution selector in the Options and Pause menus, capped at your desktop resolution and saved between sessions.
- Fixed the table on smaller-than-1080p displays: the game now letterboxes to fit instead of pushing the outer seats and HUD off-screen. Window minimum lowered to 960×540, and F11 fullscreen now matches the menu toggle.
- Added resolution-aware card detail (LOD): at 1080p and up you get the full traditional pip faces, while downscaled windows automatically swap to a legible simplified face (big corner rank + one centered pip). Hopefully fixing the long-standing complaint about pips smearing into mush on small screens.