🦈 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. Twelve games in the CardShark Activity, all fourteen games as slash commands in chat if you'd rather play there, and 🤖 computer players 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.

🃏 Twelve 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 and Pinochle

🚀 How to start a game

1. ➕ Add CardShark to your server with the Invite button on this page.
2. 🖱️ In any channel, 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.

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

⭐ Why it's fun

• 🤖 Bots fill the empty seats. Play alone to learn a game, or with friends and let the bots make up the numbers.
• 🪙 Practice or play for chips. Poker tables with bots are practice tables, with no chips at stake. Sit down with only real people and you play for your server's play-money chips.
• 💥 Made for card players. Real side pots, split high/low pots, Spades nil bids, the ace of spades slamming down, the queen of spades landing on someone's trick. 🔒 Your cards stay private: nobody else ever sees them.
• 📱 Desktop and phone. The table fits Discord's window, side panel or full screen, and phones in portrait or landscape.

🛠️ "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 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.

🏆 Chips, leaderboards and more

• 🪙 Play-money chips, per server. /daily gives you 1,000 chips, /balance shows where you stand and /leaderboard ranks your server. 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! 🦈♠️♥️♦️♣️