- Discord Poker Night aims to give Discord users a social game that combines online poker with the voice and video chat that Discord is already known for.
- Poker Night is an interesting social experience with solid webcam and voice support, but falls short in the poker mechanics.
- Webcam and voice are integrated into the app from the start, and operate seamlessly with the the poker.
- Only cash poker is available, and poker play dynamics are quite different from more traditional poker clients.
Discord, the popular chat app that has been taking over poker communities for the past few years, is making a nod to the poker world with a new app that Discord servers can add. Discord Poker Night aims to give Discord users a social game that combines online poker with voice and video chat for which Discord is already well known.
In most of the world, there is no shortage of poker apps to play on. Most online poker players have several different online clients installed, and probably running, at any given time.
However, very few of those options offer much in the way of a social experience to go along with the poker. Popular poker operators like GGPoker, PokerStars, partypoker, and 888poker have in-game chat features, and each has an array of emotes, throwables, and/or animations to add a bit of interaction to the game, but that tends to be the extent of their in-game social options.
A few traditional poker operators have tried to go further, with some attempts at webcam integration. PokerStars runs Home Games, though without any added chat or video options; 888poker used to spread WebCam tables; and a recent effort headed by Barry Greenstein is looking to bring a new webcam and crypto-based client to the market, Dealio Webcam Poker.
However, these efforts to bring online poker closer to the live experience have not been very successful to date.
