How ClashPoker works
A poker room built around CLASH, a cryptocurrency, with free weekly chips that decide who wins it. This page is the whole model, including the parts that are done by hand.
The chips
Chips here are just data: a name, a symbol, how many decimal places they settles to, and whether players may send it to each other. Adding one is a configuration change, not a rebuild, so the room can open a table in whatever players actually want to wager.
- vCLASH vCLASH
- Free, and the scoring system. Every player gets a stake each week; it cannot be transferred, cannot be cashed out, and is never paid out in any form. It is points.
- CLASH CLASH
- A real cryptocurrency. It is what deposits, cashouts and the weekly prize are paid in, and players may transfer it to each other.
- satoshi sats
- Chips you can hold and wager here, and send to other players.
The weekly vCLASH leaderboard
Your vCLASH balance is your score. Win vCLASH pots and you climb the leaderboard; lose them and you drop. Every player's stake is reset at Monday 00:00, America/Chicago, and the standings start again from level ground. Nothing carries over, which is the point: a player who joins this week is not behind one who joined a year ago.
The prize, and where it comes from
Topping the weekly vCLASH leaderboard pays in CLASH, not vCLASH. The prize is a floor of 100 CLASH plus a share of the rake the the other chips’ tables collected that week.
Being exact about the size of it: the CLASH table currently rakes 0%, so it contributes nothing, and this week's pool is the 100 CLASH floor and no more. The share only becomes worth anything when tables playing other chips run a rake and get played.
Deposits and cashouts are done by hand
There is no card processor here and nothing watches a blockchain for you. Buying chips is an honour-system exchange between you and an admin, and it goes like this:
- You open a request from your Account page, naming the amount and which chips.
- An admin replies on that request with an address to send to. No address is published on the site — you are given one on your own request.
- You send the payment and add the transaction reference to the request.
- The admin checks it and credits your account by hand.
Cashing out runs the same way, in reverse. Because a person does each step, it is not instant, and you should expect to wait for a human rather than a machine.
Checking what we hold
Every kind of chips has a public page showing the total held across all player accounts — added up from the ledger when you load it, never typed in by an admin — next to the wallet address we have published for it, with a link to a block explorer.
The claim is exactly this and nothing more: players hold this much; that is our published wallet; verify it yourself. An address balance shows what is in that address at the moment you look. It cannot show that the address is ours, that the coins in it are not borrowed, or that there is no other liability elsewhere. It is not an audit and we do not call it one.
The tables
The live list on the lobby is read from the poker server itself, so it is what is actually running. Some low-stakes vCLASH tables seat automated players so a table is not empty when you sit down; they are software, not people, and they are not counted as players anywhere on this site.