CoinPoker started in 2017 as a crypto experiment backed by Tony G, with its own CHP token and a decentralised, verifiable RNG. For years it was a niche room. Then new owners took over in 2024, moved the games onto USDT, poured money into guarantees and ambassadors, and by 2026 it was averaging more than 2,000 seated cash players — briefly the second-busiest room in the world, ahead of PokerStars.
The cash lobby is the widest in crypto poker: No-Limit Hold'em, PLO, PLO5, PLO6, Short Deck, Bomb Pots and All-in-or-Fold, heads-up to six-max, from $0.01/$0.02 all the way up to $5,000/$10,000. There's no fast-fold format and no Spins. Tournaments run from cents to $5,200 buy-ins, anchored by the monthly CoinMillion and a run of series with eight-figure guarantees — The One, CSOP, the World Poker Masters and the Battle of Malta Online.
The 2026 client rebuild added a built-in HUD and a player-stats tool, and at the same time the room banned every third-party tracker, HUD and solver. Deposits and cashouts are crypto first (cards work through a processor with a low ceiling), and there is no mandatory KYC. It has had bot problems — most recently a batch of 98 accounts banned and refunded in early 2026 — and it answers them loudly, with proof-of-reserves and public confiscations.