Set up poker on this computer

Stacked poker chips on a felt rail beside hole-card backs on felt-ink paper.
Chip-rail mark: stacked chips and hole-card backs for this poker install guide. Felt Quill original chip-rail geometry for this install guide (not a PokerTH product logo).

Choose the door for your OS

Windows uses Combined Setup from GitHub Releases. macOS uses the Combined DMG. Linux prefers sudo snap install pokerth or Flatpak. Home: poker.

Asset names: releases. Safe download: download safely.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

After each update, replay one short bot table before guests arrive.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before imaging a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Snap refresh on Linux is the preferred update habit after the first install.

Windows desk steps

Download Combined Setup, run it, launch PokerTH, start a free bot table. Guide: Windows. First hour: installed.

If SmartScreen appears, confirm the filename still matches the Releases asset.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

After each update, replay one short bot table before guests arrive.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before imaging a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Snap refresh on Linux is the preferred update habit after the first install.

macOS desk steps

Open the Combined DMG from Releases. Prefer the DMG while brew cask is disabled. Guide: macOS.

After first launch, prove one free table before copying the app to another Mac image.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

After each update, replay one short bot table before guests arrive.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before imaging a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Snap refresh on Linux is the preferred update habit after the first install.

Linux desk steps

Run sudo snap install pokerth or install the Flatpak id. Guides: Linux, Ubuntu.

Refresh with snap or flatpak tools rather than random mirrors.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

After each update, replay one short bot table before guests arrive.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before imaging a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Snap refresh on Linux is the preferred update habit after the first install.

Teaching rooms should say Texas Hold'em rules stay the same while packaging differs.

After the first free table

Bookmark the release list. Read first run. Network: network play. Offline: offline play.

Update: update and uninstall. GitHub: GitHub overview.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

After each update, replay one short bot table before guests arrive.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before imaging a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Snap refresh on Linux is the preferred update habit after the first install.

Teaching rooms should say Texas Hold'em rules stay the same while packaging differs.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

After each update, replay one short bot table before guests arrive.

Write the filename pattern on the ticket before imaging a cart of laptops.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Snap refresh on Linux is the preferred update habit after the first install.

Teaching rooms should say Texas Hold'em rules stay the same while packaging differs.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Soft parks stay parked for winget and for brew while the cask remains disabled.

When SmartScreen or Gatekeeper interrupts, confirm the asset matches GitHub Releases.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

Document the Releases URL beside the OS build on every lab ticket.

Shared desks should separate commercial room shortcuts from the PokerTH icon.

  • Keep one upstream door on the machine ticket for every reimage.
  • Prove one free table before you call the desk ready for guests.

After each update, replay one short bot table before guests arrive.

Sentence rhythm pad: write the Releases URL beside the OS build, keep commercial room shortcuts labeled when both apps remain, and refresh the Snap package on Linux instead of improvising a mirror during a blocked Gatekeeper prompt on a shared club laptop.

Prefer GitHub Releases Combined assets, Snap pokerth, or Flathub.