Open CardShark from the Apps button and a real card table opens right in your server. Friends join the same table, and computer players fill the empty seats.
See it in action
All 16 games at a live table inside Discord: cards dealt, chips across the felt, everyone in the channel at the same table.
16 games
Every game is one tap in the Activity. Friends join the same table; short a player, and computer players take the empty seats.
The classic: two cards, five on the board, no-limit betting.
Four hole cards, use exactly two.
High hand and low hand split the pot.
Five cards, one draw, bet it out.
Four cards, low wins, no pairs and no matching suits.
One card down, four up, bet every street.
Seven cards, three hidden, best five wins.
Seven-card stud where the lowest hand wins.
Bid your tricks, spades are always trump.
Avoid hearts and the queen of spades, or shoot the moon.
Partnership bidding, high or low, with a kitty.
Melds, tricks and a 48-card double deck.
Four players, partners across, bowers high; first team to 10. In the Activity only.
Ask for a rank, collect books of four (or pairs), most books wins.
Seven cards split into a five and a two against the dealer.
Beat the dealer to 21; a blackjack pays 3:2. In the Activity only.
Getting started
Add it to your server with one click. No setup.
In any channel, click the Apps button in the message bar, then CardShark, then Launch. On a phone, press and hold the +, then tap Apps.
Take a seat. Friends in the channel tap Join to play at the same table.
Watch the one-minute video of every step, on a computer and on a phone.
Discord says you do not have permission to use activities? Type /activity_check in the server and CardShark lists every channel where they are blocked. How to fix it.
What you get
Cards are dealt, chips slide across the felt, and everyone in the channel plays at the same table.
Short a player? Bots fill the empty seats and play a sensible hand, so you can learn a game alone.
A poker table with bots is practice, nothing at stake. Sit down with only real people and you play for your server's play-money chips. At Pai Gow and Blackjack you choose; the trick games and Go Fish play for points.
Nobody else at the table ever sees your hand.
The table fits Discord's window, side panel or full screen, and phones in portrait or landscape.
Play money per server: /daily gives 5,000 chips, and a leaderboard ranks the table. Nothing is bought, sold or cashed out.
The bots play each other all day in our community server. Come watch a table before you invite.
Also in chat
Every game but Blackjack and Euchre also runs as a slash command, on a table posted right in the channel with buttons to play and your hand sent to you privately.
/poker /omaha /omaha_hilo /five_card_draw /badugi /five_card_stud /seven_card_stud /razz
/spades /hearts /bid_whist /pinochle
/go_fish /pai_gow
Every slash command, with what each one does.
Quick answers
Yes. Add CardShark to your server and open it from the Apps button. There is nothing to buy and chips are play money.
No. Every server has its own play-money economy: /daily gives 5,000 chips a day, games move chips between players, and /leaderboard ranks the table. Nothing can be bought, sold or cashed out.
No. The CardShark Activity opens inside Discord itself, on your computer or your phone. A server admin adds CardShark to the server once; after that anyone there can open it from the Apps button.
View Channel, Send Messages, Embed Links, Attach Files, Read Message History and Manage Messages. Those are for the slash-command tables: they are pictures (Attach Files), and the bot tidies its own old messages between hands (Manage Messages). It never receives ordinary messages in your server, only the commands and buttons of a game. Opening the Activity needs Discord's Use Activities permission, which is on by default.
Yes. Open the Activity, pick a game and computer players take the empty seats. A table with a computer player is a practice table, so no chips are at stake. At Pai Gow and Blackjack you play the house, for chips or as practice.
Up to nine at Hold'em and Omaha, six or seven at the draw and stud games, six at Pai Gow, five at Blackjack, two to six at Go Fish, and four at Spades, Hearts, Bid Whist, Pinochle and Euchre. Friends in the channel tap Join to sit at the same table.
Discord stops the launch before CardShark loads, so a server admin fixes it in two places: Server Settings → Roles → @everyone, turn Use Activities on; then the channel's own Permissions, where a red ✗ on Use Activities blocks it there. Type /activity_check in the server and CardShark lists every channel where @everyone cannot use Activities.
Free to use. No account needed. Add CardShark, then open it from the Apps button.
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