SolPoker player-run tables went live on 12 November 2026 at SolPoker, an online poker room settled in USDC with deposits in SOL, letting any signed-in player open a public or private cash table, pick the game variant and change the blinds by majority vote. The tables charge no rake, and SolPoker says every deal is provably fair and verifiable on-chain.
How SolPoker player-run tables work
From the lobby a player opens a cash table, names it, sets the blinds, the buy-in range and the number of seats, from 2 to 9, and leaves it public or protects it with a password. The table can be fixed to Texas Hold’em, pot-limit Omaha, Pineapple or Irish, or set to Dealer’s Choice, where the player on the button picks the game before each hand. Once play is under way, any seated player can propose a change of stakes; the proposal passes on a majority of the seats and takes effect between hands.
At a Dealer’s Choice table the player on the button chooses from 5 games: Texas Hold’em, 4-card and 5-card pot-limit Omaha, Pineapple, in which each player receives 3 cards and discards 1 before the flop, and Irish, in which each player receives 4 cards, bets the flop with all 4 and then discards 2. The choice is made in a short window before each deal.
Stake votes
Stake votes follow fixed rules. A proposal must keep the big blind within 4 times the table’s original blind in either direction, the small blind between a third and a half of the big blind, the minimum buy-in at no less than 20 big blinds and the maximum at no less than 40. Every seated player casts one ballot, which cannot be changed; at a 6-handed table 4 votes carry the proposal, and at a heads-up table both players must agree. A passed vote is applied after a 15-second pause between hands, never during one, and a table’s stakes can change at most once an hour. The same voting applies at the room’s regular cash tables.
Opening a table requires a bankroll that covers its own minimum buy-in, which starts at $5, and each player can run one table at a time. Player-run tables take no rake, so a private game among friends costs its players nothing beyond the chips they put in play.
A home game decides two things for itself that online rooms took away: what it plays and what it plays for. SolPoker can hand both back because it takes no rake, so it has no reason to steer players towards its own tables. A password-protected Dealer’s Choice table with four friends is the game this format was built for, and it now takes a minute to set up.
Shurdha Klea, Head of Product, SolPoker
Shuffle verification
Hands at player-run tables are dealt under the same verifiable shuffle as the rest of the room. Before each hand the server publishes a SHA-256 commitment that fixes its secret seed, each seated player’s own seed and a future round of drand, the public randomness beacon operated by the League of Entropy; the commitment is anchored in a transaction on Base before that round exists, and any finished hand can be rechecked at solpoker.com/verify. Players sign in with a Solana or Ethereum wallet or a Google account and play in the browser on desktop or mobile, with no download.
SolPoker accepts deposits in SOL, USDC or USDT on Solana and USDC on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base, and pays withdrawals from published vault contracts to the player’s own wallet. The company has no token of its own and says play is open to adults in jurisdictions where online poker is lawful.
Industry context
Rake, the share of each pot a room keeps, is the main source of revenue for online poker operators. SolPoker’s announcement does not say how the room earns revenue without it.
Licensed operators have been building larger shared player pools. Flutter opened the PokerStars network to B2B partners in September 2026, after moving PokerStars onto the Betfair platform in August. In France, the national gambling authority (ANJ) granted Betsson an online poker licence in October, and Norway moved to let Norsk Tipping offer online poker in September.
SolPoker’s announcement does not name a gambling licence or a regulator.
Source: SolPoker
