🦈 CardShark: card games played live inside Discord

Open a real card table right inside Discord, invite your friends, and play. 🃏 No website to visit, no account to make, nothing to buy. Sixteen games in the CardShark Activity, fourteen of them as slash commands in chat too, and 🤖 bots with real personalities whenever you're short a seat.

🎮 The CardShark Activity: a live table in Discord

The Activity is a full game table that opens inside Discord itself, on your 💻 computer or your 📱 phone. Cards are dealt, chips slide across the felt, and everyone in the channel can join the same table.

🃏 Sixteen games

• ♠️ Poker: Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Badugi, Five-Card Draw, Seven-Card Stud, Razz and Five-Card Stud
• ♥️ Trick-taking: Spades, Hearts, Bid Whist, Pinochle and Euchre
• 🎲 Other: Go Fish 🐟, Pai Gow Poker and Blackjack

🚀 How to start a game

1. ➕ Add CardShark to your server with the Invite button on this page.
2. ⌨️ In any channel, type /play and tap the button. Or click the Apps button in the message bar, choose CardShark, then Launch. 📱 On a phone, press and hold the + button, then tap Apps.
3. 🪑 Pick a game and sit down. Friends in the channel tap Join to play with you, or find your table from the Games menu.

🎬 A one-minute video shows every step: https://cardsharkbot.com/how-to-play

⭐ Why it's fun

• 🤖 Bots with personalities. Seven characters fill the empty seats: Arizona Slim the old card hustler, Rookie Ricky who's just happy to be here, Duchess Side-Eye, Veronica Vanderbot and more. They greet you, tease a big pot and say "gg", one short line at a time, and regulars can earn a nickname. Prefer quiet? Turn Bot talk off.
• 😄 Quick reactions and real profile pictures. Every seat shows the player's Discord picture. Tap 😊 for 👏 🔥 😅 or "nice hand": no typing, no chat to moderate.
• 👋 Join a friend's table. The Games menu shows who's playing what; tap a friend's face to sit down at their table.
• 🪙 Practice or play for chips. A table with bots is a practice table, with no chips at stake. Sit down with only real people and you play for your server's play-money chips. Step away with Sit out, rebuy after busting without losing your seat, and if you won a hand everyone folded to, tap Show hand to prove the bluff.
• 💥 Made for card players. Real side pots, split high/low pots, Spades nil bids, Euchre's bowers, the ace of spades slamming down, showdowns that turn the hands over one by one and say who won and why. 🔒 Your cards stay private: nobody else ever sees them.
• 🛡️ Your chips are safe. If CardShark ever restarts mid-game, you get back the chips you had after the last finished hand.
• 📱 Desktop and phone. The table fits Discord's window, side panel or full screen, and phones in portrait or landscape, at any font size.

🛠️ "Failed to launch: you do not have permission to use activities"? A server admin needs to turn on Use Activities for your role (Server Settings → Roles), and check the channel's own permissions. Run /activity_check and CardShark lists every channel where Activities are blocked.

💬 Prefer it in chat? Slash-command games

Every game but Blackjack and Euchre also runs on a rendered table posted right in the channel, with buttons to play and your hand sent to you privately. Fourteen games:

• ♠️ Poker: /poker (Texas Hold'em), /omaha, /omaha_hilo, /five_card_draw, /badugi, /five_card_stud, /seven_card_stud, /razz
• ♥️ Trick-taking: /spades, /hearts, /bid_whist, /pinochle
• 🎲 Other: /go_fish 🐟 and /pai_gow

🔘 Buttons, not typing: fold, call, raise, bid and play with one tap, with ⏱️ turn timers and an Extra Time button when you need a minute.

🏆 Ratings, leaderboards and chips

• 📈 Player ratings. Spades, Hearts, Bid Whist, Pinochle, Euchre and Go Fish have a rating: everyone starts at 1,000, win to climb, and you see your change at the end of every game.
• 🏆 A leaderboard for every game, for your server and for everyone: https://cardsharkbot.com/leaderboards. Poker, Pai Gow and Blackjack rank by net chips won. /rank shows where you stand.
• 🪙 Play-money chips, per server. /daily gives you 1,000 chips, /balance shows your stack and /leaderboard ranks the biggest stacks. Nothing can be bought, sold or cashed out.
• 📺 Showcase channel. Admins can run /showcase on in a channel and the bots play every game back to back, so newcomers can watch before they sit down.
• 💡 Quiet when you want it. Now and then a short tip shows under a finished game; admins can turn it off with /tips.

🔐 Permissions

The bot needs: View Channel, Send Messages, Embed Links, Attach Files, Read Message History and Manage Messages (the bot tidies its own old table messages between hands). Nothing privileged.

Players need: Discord's Use Activities permission to open the Activity. It's on by default; if a server or channel has turned it off, /activity_check shows where.

🌐 Website: https://cardsharkbot.com · 🎬 How to play: https://cardsharkbot.com/how-to-play · 💬 Community: https://discord.gg/JUsAWqecaG

Shuffle up and deal! 🦈♠️♥️♦️♣️