NEW FEATURE: Desktop Table Refactor

Over the last several months, we've been hard at work iterating on what we called v1 of our tables, going through a complete refactor (overhaul) of the entire experience. As of today, we're thrilled to announce the culmination of that hard work, as we release v2 for desktop (mobile to follow), the next generation of play at Phenom Poker.

What's New?

Overhauled UI/UX

Almost everything on the table has been enlarged and/or slightly moved, in an effort to eliminate dead space and improve readability with less overlap. Action buttons appear above the player name on each nameplate, keeping the name and stack values visible.

Hamburger Menu

We've moved the menu to the upper right corner, which will expand and contract as you interact with it. You'll find options such as table info, hand history, tile tables, sit out options, general settings and leave table.

Improved Chat Functionality

Chat is now handled as a slide-in module that appears above the action. Simply click on the bottom left corner where the icon is and you can chat without leaving the action. Chat bubbles appear above player names and a red dot will indicate if there is new chat to read.

Table Tiling

Like to multi-table? We've installed a one-click table tiling feature that will get all of your tables in their spot.

Ease of Future Improvements

This refactor clears the way for future improvements that our community has requested, like double board games and run it twice.

FAQ

Q. When is mobile coming?

A. It's already in development! The good news is the desktop refactor was the bulk of the work, mobile will not take nearly as long.

Q. Do the tiled tables pop to the front?

A. They do!

Q. Wasn't there a sound settings option coming?

A. Yes! It's on the way and should be in an upcoming release.

US players welcomed?

Yeah I got on the site today from the US no problem.

The software is great and the rake-sharing feature is an extra incentive to play there. I can't wait for there to be more players, I may have to approach their team with a marketing proposition of some kind since that's my day job.

I would advise anyone to avoid this site until they openly release hand histories. There is a whale running around the lobby for days now crushing regs from 200-2k , this guy wouldn't last 1 hour on any proper site. Obviously no way to analyze whats going on because there are no HH's available.

go to settings, table, then open hand history

I'm referring to a downloadable one, not this crap.

It's worth noting our RNG has been tested and certified by Gaming Labs, an industry leader in this business. It was originally certified back on March 27, 2024 and was re-certified on March 4, 2025. Here's the info if you'd like to review: https://access.gaminglabs.com/Certificate/Index?i=530

As for someone running hot and winning pot after pot, I think the best way to answer that is, "that's poker baby."

In all seriousness, if you feel there is something more than variance happening, please feel free to reach out to me and I will research it.

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jungmit

There's nothing rigged about the site. I play here daily. I lose, and I win as I should. I've played on all the sites since 2007 and poker hasn't been this fun since the full tilt/stars days. I've never felt safer playing poker online. It actually feels like i'm playing against humans again and is the closest experience I've ever had to playing live poker, online.

The team is extremely responsive any time there is an issue, they release updates at least 1-2x's a week.
There's no deposit/withdraw limits, no rollovers to prevent you from cashing out YOUR money when you want it, the site never has control of your funds, they give players ownership as you grind. You really think they did all of this effort to make the playing experience for players top notch and then have some random "whale" as you put it running around super using come on dude. They have 50/100 and 150/300 games running with some of the biggest names in the world. The CEO sits in the games and loses just like everyone else. They're working on downloadable hand histories and have been one of the most transparent sites to date that I've ever played on, but tournaments and new software has been the priority for the past few months. You ran bad or played bad and lost fair and square. That's poker, but taking shots and trying to hurt a business because you lost money is insane work with literally 0 proof.

Show me some hands that are suspicious. You can look at your hand histories even if you can't download them at the moment. Take some screenshots of "suspicious hands" and post them here.

Any estimate on when you're gonna have MTTs available?

Our developers are working every day to create MTTs and SNGs. We want to make sure that we provide a fully tested tournament experience for all of our players and will announce a launch date as soon as we can

Is a HUD allowed?

You can also copy the hand history ID and look it up in the hand history player for later review as well.

No HUD right now, and there isn't a good way to get text versions of hand histories at the moment.

But even if there was, I can't imagine HUDs would be allowed. If enough players want a HUD we could probably do a vote, but I don't think the majority would vote in favour for it. Also, most of the games that are running are different mixed games, and there aren't even trackers that support a lot of the games.

I honestly would like a built in HUD to show simple stuff like GG does. VPIP, PFR, 3bet etc. would be nice. However, the team is hard at work with tournies, and this would be a nice-to-have way done the road, I would think.

Please note that I've moved a couple of the recent o/t posts to the "Rigged? Debate" thread in DoPS, as they are more suited to it. Please feel free to debate jungmit's "different RNG" comments there, rather than disrupting this thread.

Thank you.

no, ty, Mike!

I left online poker bout 2 years ago due to the rampant cheating. RTA, bots, collusion.

a player owned poker website sounds promising. But does anyone know what countermeasures Phenom poker uses to combat cheaters?

They require KYC before you can sit down and play is the first thing that comes to mind. Rather than at cashout. Cheaters are banned and placed on a public blacklist board w/ their KYC'd info. They are extremely responsive to the smallest issues. I've never seen a poker site so responsive. They are in Discord answering questions, helping, and fixing issues what seems like 24/7.

It actually feels like you're playing against humans. People chat at the tables, players use real 3d avatars of themselves. They have a built-in feature to create a 3d avatar of yourself. High stakes require real name displayed. Lots of things make it feel like actually playing live poker.

Is the desktop app expected to be launched any time soon?

They've said they are working on it, but haven't given a date or timeline. They are mostly putting ALL their resources on STTs and MTTs.

Honestly, this site feels really good in a web browser. The only thing I think is missing is a table popup feature when it's your turn to act and they don't need an actual desktop app to get that to work. It's just a feature they haven't added yet.

Why do you want a desktop app? What does it give you that a web app doesn't?

Even PokerStars has been working on a web version now after the desktop app.

Hi, thanks for letting me know. The main reasons would be for table organization and hotkeys from intuitive tables, so i dont have to keep resizing tables and then fold, call, bet hotkeys etc.

They do have table tiling now for the web client.


And they do have some hot keys, but I don't use them. I can't imagine it being that helpful if they didn't have a pop-up to focus table feature, though. You would have to manually click to set the active table and then use the hotkey.

yea, intuitive table auto focuses the table under the mouse to make it active. And those hotkeys look like they are combo keys. with intuitive tables i just press F key and it folds. the tiling for table management works if you are only playing on phenom but if you are playing multiple sites, table organization software fits them into a pre made grid regardless of which site it is so it makes playing multiple sites smooth

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