Getting to know the Winamax poker tables

The cash game table

• That's you! And your stack (capital in chips), as well as your cards. A halo of light indicates when it is your turn to make a decision.
   

• Your opponents are represented around the table by their avatars or the face down cards. The information on your screen indicates, as it will for your opponents, their username, their stack, and their avatar (or their cards if they are involved in the current hand). Players whose usernames and avatars are greyed out are not taking part in the current hand.

   

• The "board", aka the community cards.

   

• The pot: the total amount bet by the players in the current hand.

   

• The "Dealer" button. The two players to the left of the dealer place the small and big blinds (in that order) before the cards are dealt.
   

• This is where you really play poker! This area allows you to choose your actions: fold (give up the hand), check (bet zero if no one has bet before your turn), call or raise. In the case of a bet or a raise, you have 4 ways to adjust
   

  

   

  • By clicking on the red button on the right (bet) to make a minimum bet or raise.
  • Manually by typing the numbers on your keyboard in the box provided.
  • By clicking on one of the 8 predetermined amounts. Note: you can set these amounts yourself in the options menu.
  • By moving the cursor from left to right with your mouse.
  
  

  
  The buttons on either side of the action buttons allow you to rebuy (increase your chip stack), request additional time to make your decision, activate or deactivate the HUD display, convert your stack display to BB (big blinds), leave the table, and set certain options (leave the table at the next big blind, hide winning hands, etc).

   

• The top bar allows you to set up the Playground. The Playground is a brand new way to organize your tables, developed exclusively on Winamax.
   

• These four options allow you to, in order: open a new cash game table similar to your current table, review your recently played hands, display your stats, and change the appearance of the table (felt and background).

   

• This is where you follow the progress of your Eureka, a fun and free bonus game available exclusively on Winamax cash game tables.

   

• Your hand history (text format) of the last hands played is available here. You can clear this history (and the chat) by clicking on the icon next to the yellow cross.

   

• Chat with your opponents here... but only if you’re going to be friendly please!

   

Tournament or Sit&Go tables

The Winamax tournament and Sit&Go tables work in a similar way to the cash game tables, with a few additional features specific to tournament play. You can find your position in the tournament in the top right corner, the number of players needed to remain in order to reach the payout or the next payout level, and the average stack.

OUTS DISPLAY

When a hand is played all-in, the equities of each player are displayed on the screen in real time, as are the 'outs' of the player who needs to improve their hand.

Each player's equities correspond to the percentage of chance of winning the hand. The "outs" are the cards that can potentially improve a player's hand. Both equities and outs are dynamic: they change in real time depending on the nature of the flop, turn and river.

When a player needs to find a combination of several distinct cards to improve their hand, the expression "Runner Runner" is displayed on their username. Conversely, when no card can improve a player's hand (0% chance of winning), the phrase "Drawing Dead" appears on the screen.

When a player's outs correspond to a flush draw, the symbol for the suit of card sought (diamonds, clubs, hearts, spades) is displayed on the screen, rather than the full list of cards of the suit in question.

For legibility, when a player has a very large number of outs, a maximum of 10 outs will be displayed on the screen.

The equities of each player are coloured according to a gradient from red (little chance to no chance of winning) to green (great chance of winning, or even 100% chance of winning).

You can disable the display of outs. To do so, go to Options > Display.