Poker Call

Responsible Play

Last updated: 1 October 2026

Even play-money games can eat your evening

Simulated poker is designed to be engaging: that’s the point of a game. But engaging isn’t the same as healthy, and it’s worth paying attention to your own play: how long you’ve been at the table, whether you’re chasing a losing session, and whether playing is crowding out things you’d rather be doing.

Two tools, built in

• Take a break: in Settings (from the lobby, or the gear on the table's top bar), for a day, three days, a week or a month. It closes the store, cash tables (no new seat, no top-up or rebuy), Sit & Go entry, table gifts and every staked side game until it ends (the Club included, and no chip offer is sent as a notification, nor any nudge to come back: no streak, free-spin, missions, crew or welcome-back reminder; results and a Poker Night you said you would join still arrive), on every device you sign in on, and it cannot be cut short from inside the app. Practice tables stay open: their chips are free and never touch your wallet. A hand you are already playing plays out; then your cash seat sits out, and when the sit-out time runs out it stands and every chip goes back to your wallet. Started with no connection, it holds on your phone at once and is locked on our server the moment you are back online. Your daily streak is frozen while you are away: a day the break touched is never a missed day, and no streak shield is spent on it.
• Daily spend cap: a limit you set on in-app purchase spend in a day. Lowering it lands at once; raising it or turning it off waits out a cooling-off period.

If your play doesn’t feel fun anymore

If you notice you’re playing more than you mean to, feeling anxious about a session, or play is affecting your sleep, work, or relationships, it can help to talk to someone who supports people with gambling-like play patterns, even where no real money is involved:

• In the UK: BeGambleAware: free information, support and advice.
• GamCare: the National Gambling Helpline (freephone 0808 8020 133, 24/7) and free support tools.
• In the United States: the National Council on Problem Gambling helpline, 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537): call or text, free and confidential, 24/7.
• Anywhere else: your national gambling helpline. Your doctor or local health service can point you to it.

While you play

• Hourly check-in. Once an hour at a table, a quiet line tells you how long you have been sitting. On by default; off in Settings.
• Your controls follow your phone. Signing out or deleting the account and starting again on the same device does not reset a break, a spend cap or a refund hold: the new account inherits the stricter setting.
• Cameras are for the seated. People watching from the rail see avatars, not the table’s cameras. At public tables only accounts signed in with Apple or Google can go on camera or mic, the mic starts muted, and you can hide other players’ video in Settings.
• Blocking keeps you apart. Someone you have blocked cannot take a seat at your table, and you cannot take one at theirs.

In short

Chips have no cash value. Nothing in Poker Call can cost you real money unless you choose to buy chips through Apple or Google, and even then, chips bought or won still can’t be cashed out. Play should stay fun; if it stops being fun, take a break.