Two Cards settings: Name my hand, tips, speed and saving
Open Settings from the title screen to change the speed, the helpers, the sound, the graphics and the language. The helpers Name my hand and Tips for new players are on at the start. This page also explains Your numbers, Try a hand and how the game saves.
Every setting
| Setting | Choices | What it does | At the start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Calm, Normal, Quick, Flash | How fast cards and chips move, and how fast the computer players take their turns. | Quick |
| Name my hand | On / Off | Shows what your cards make right now, and lights up those cards. | On |
| Tips for new players | On / Off | Short tips during your first hand. | On |
| Speed up after I fold | On / Off | After you fold, the others play at Flash speed, so you wait less. | On |
| Show the other cards | On / Off | When everyone folds before all five middle cards are out, the rest of the middle cards are shown anyway. | Off |
| Show cards that folded | On / Off | At the end of a hand, everyone's cards turn face up, even the cards of players who folded. | Off |
| Sound | On / Off | All sound on or off. | On |
| Music | Slider | How loud the music is. | |
| Sound effects | Slider | How loud the card and chip sounds are. | |
| Moving effects | Like my device, Calm, Full | Calm turns off the animations of dealing, flipping and sliding chips. | Like my device |
| Graphics | Auto, Low, High | Low drops the glow, the soft shadows and some decorations, for slower devices. | Auto |
| Language | Nine languages | The language of the game. | Your portal or browser language |
At the bottom of the page, Controls lists the main keys and buttons. The full list is on the controls page.
How fast is each speed?
These numbers are hidden in the game. They are the time one card or chip takes to move, and the time a computer player waits before each move.
| Speed | Time per move |
|---|---|
| Calm | 0.72 seconds |
| Normal | 0.44 seconds |
| Quick | 0.22 seconds |
| Flash | 0.09 seconds |
With Moving effects set to Calm (or calm motion on your device), the table always plays at Flash pace with the animations off. With Flash or calm motion, the winner sentence stays for at least one second before Next hand works, so you can always read it.
What do Show the other cards and Show the next card do?
When everyone folds early, the hand ends before all five middle cards are out. Nobody has to show anything. But you may want to know what would have come!
- Tap Show the next card (N, or RB) after the hand to turn over one more middle card. Tap again for the next one.
- Or switch on Show the other cards, and the game shows all the missing middle cards by itself.
These cards are just for looking. The hand is already over, and they never change who won.
How do the tips for new players work?
With Tips for new players on, a short tip pops up at each step of your first hand:
| When | The tip says |
|---|---|
| You get your cards | "These two cards are yours. Only you can see them." |
| Your first turn | "Your turn! Call matches the bet, so you stay in. Fold means you sit out this hand." |
| Three middle cards | "Three cards in the middle. They belong to everyone. Mix them with your two." |
| The fourth card | "A fourth card for everyone. One more is coming." |
| The fifth card | "The last card. The best five of your seven cards count." |
| Cards are shown | "The best hand takes the chips. Tap the sentence for the next hand." |
Tap Got it (H, or Select) to hide a tip. Tap No more tips to turn them all off. When you have seen all six, the tips turn off by themselves. To see them again, switch Tips for new players back on.
While the tips are on and you have not won a hand yet, the first three hands of a new table are dealt kindly: if you stay in to the end, your cards come out best.
What is on Your numbers?
Your numbers counts what you do at your saved tables:
| Number | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Hands played | Every hand you finished |
| Hands won | Every hand where you took chips |
| Folds | Every time you folded |
| Calls | Every time you called |
| Raises | Every time you raised |
| All-ins | Every time you went all in |
| Last-stack wins | Games of Play until one stack that you won |
| Last-stack games | Games of Play until one stack that you played to the end |
Tables with Practice on are not counted. To start over, tap Clear numbers. The game asks "Clear your numbers? The table stays." Tap Clear to clear them, or Keep to keep them.
What do Which hand wins and Try a hand show?
- Which hand wins lists all ten hands, best to worst, with an example for each. See poker hands, best to worst.
- Try a hand lays out all 52 cards. Tap up to seven, and the game says "Best hand:" and the name. With five or more cards, the best five light up. Clear starts over.
How does saving work?
The game saves by itself in the browser on the device you play on: after every hand and every change in Settings. There are three save slots, Save 1, Save 2 and Save 3, and each one keeps its own table, numbers and table settings, like Speed and the helpers. Sound, Music, Sound effects, Moving effects, Graphics and Language are shared by all three slots. Save slots on the title screen takes you back to them.
Sometimes the game shows a note:
- "This browser can't save your game. You can still play, but your progress won't be kept." This can happen in a private window.
- "This game is open in another tab too. Play in just one tab so your progress is kept."
- "Your saved progress was broken, so we put it aside. You start fresh this time."
See also
- Controls: all keys and buttons.
- Your first hands, step by step: the tips in action.
- Game modes: Practice and the setup page.
- FAQ: more about saving and devices.
- Play Poker Texas Hold'em: Two Cards.
