Phoenix, AZ
Lucky Palms
"Everyone starts somewhere."
- Ante
- $5 – $5,000
- Trips minimum
- $1
- Chips
- 1 · 5 · 25 · 100 · 500 · 1K · 5K
- Access
- Open from day one
- Table
- Royal blue felt
Hold'em Coach · Academy
Learn Ultimate Texas Hold'em in 10 short lessons
Coach Academy sits on the lobby floor next to the casinos. Start there if you have never played, then take your practice chips to Lucky Palms, Reno Grand and Vegas Royale.
Virtual chips only. No real-money gambling and no prizes of real-world value. 18+.
- 10lessons in four tracks
- 4scripted table hands
- 4,250chips for finishing them all
- 3casinos to graduate to
- 5Kpractice chips to start
01 · Lessons
The 10 lessons, track by track
Coach Academy sits on the lobby floor next to the casinos. Six lessons are short guides. Four are scripted hands at a dark-teal training table with a 10,000-chip lesson stack, so you play the exact spot each lesson is about. Each reward is paid once, into your real practice bankroll.
- +250
Welcome to Hold'em Coach
Basics · How Ultimate Texas Hold'em works
- +250
Hand rankings
Basics · What beats what
- +250
Ante, Blind & Play
Basics · The three main bets
- +500
Trips side bet
Basics · Optional hole-card bonus
Scripted hand: pocket eights - +500
Dealer must qualify
Basics · Pair or better
Scripted hand - +250
Payouts & bonuses
Basics · Quick reference
- +750
Your first hand
Play a hand · Check through the streets
Scripted hand - +500
Win odds meter
App tools · Estimate before you act
- +500
Dealer outs
App tools · What can beat you
Scripted hand: 2-3 offsuit, board pairs eights - +500
Basic, Balanced & Disciplined
Strategy · Three coach profiles
Total for all 10 lessons4,250 chips
The lobby card reads "10 guides · Up to 4.2K". Finish all ten and the Valedictorian achievement adds another 5,000 chips. You can hide the Academy card later in Settings → Lobby.
02 · App tools
Lessons 8 and 9: know your odds, count what beats you
Win odds meter
The ring beside your cards shows your live chance of beating the dealer. On the river it is an exact count over every dealer hand. Preflop and on the flop it is a fast simulation. Turn it off in Settings → Gameplay → Show win odds if you want to practise reading hands yourself.
Dealer outs
On the river, your decision comes down to how many cards could beat you. A dealer out is an unseen card that, as one of the dealer's hole cards, would strictly beat your hand. Pushes don't count. Tap the outs pill to see every out card, grouped by how it beats you.
Each profile bets 1× up to a line of outs and folds above it. When your hole cards don't play, the line is lower. Scary boards (four to a flush or a straight on the table) are folds unless you are playing the board for a push. The UTH strategy guide explains the counting method step by step.
Win odds
Example: ace-jack offsuit before the flop shows about 62% to beat the dealer.
11 dealer outsWithin your strategy guideline
- 1 · FlushesCards that complete or beat a flush
- 2 · StraightsCards that complete or beat a straight
- 3 · Board pairsCards that pair the board above you
- 4 · OverkickersCards that out-kick your hand
| Profile | Normal | Hole cards don't play |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | 21 outs | 18 outs |
| Balanced | 19 outs | 17 outs |
| Disciplined | 17 outs | 15 outs |
03 · Your table
Three casinos, three bankroll stages
Start at Lucky Palms and move up as your practice bankroll grows. Every casino has its own felt, limits and chip set. To open a hand you need at least three times the minimum Ante.
Reno, NV
Reno Grand
"The biggest little casino in the world."
- Ante
- $100 – $50,000
- Trips minimum
- $25
- Chips
- 25 up to 25K
- Access
- Unlocks at a 5,000-chip bankroll
- Table
- Classic green felt
Las Vegas, NV
Vegas Royale
"Where legends are made."
- Ante
- $1,000 – $500,000
- Trips minimum
- $100
- Chips
- 100 up to 100K
- Access
- Unlocks at a 25,000-chip bankroll
- Table
- Burgundy felt
Limits are in virtual practice chips. Turn on Premium felt in Settings → Appearance for a subtle damask weave on every table.
04 · Practice chips
Plenty of chips to practise with
Chips in Hold'em Coach are virtual and only exist to let you practise at higher stakes. They have no cash value and can't be cashed out. The free sources below keep most practice sessions going.
- 5,000Starting bankrollEvery new player starts with 5K practice chips.
- 1,000Free chips every 4 hoursClaim from the lobby. An optional local reminder tells you when they're ready.
- 2,000+Daily check-in streak2,000 on day one, 250 more each day, up to 3,750 from day 8. Coach+ multiplies check-ins by 1.5×.
- +18KStreak milestones+3,000 on day 7, +5,000 on day 14 and +10,000 on day 30.
- 5,000One-time bust reliefRun your bankroll dry and you get one 5K top-up.
- OptionalRewarded videosWatch an ad for 1,000 chips in the lobby, or for a table rescue mid-hand. Always your choice.
Daily streak ladder
Chips per check-in, days 1 to 8 (before the Coach+ multiplier)
- 2K
- 2.3K
- 2.5K
- 2.8K
- 3K
- 3.3K
- 3.5K
- 3.8K
Day 7 +3KDay 14 +5KDay 30 +10K
05 · The details
Made for iPhone, down to the felt
Hold'em Coach is a native iPhone app. These are the details you notice after a week of play.
iCloud sync
Bankroll, hand history, sessions, settings and even a hand in progress sync through your private iCloud. Settings → iCloud Sync → Sync Now.
iPhoneiPhone Duo layouts
New in 1.5.8. The table, lobby and sheets adapt when Duo is open or closed, and follow when you flip the open display.
New in 1.5.8Portrait or landscape
Play one-handed in portrait or turn the phone for the classic table. Lock either in Settings. On wide screens, Settings becomes a two-pane view.
Light and dark
System, Light or Dark for the lobby, menus and sheets. The casino table keeps its own look.
Four-color cards
Four-color suits in Pips (the default) or Background style, plus classic faces on small cards in your history.
Poker lingo
Swap formal hand names for table slang (Boat, Quads, Broadway) in the coach and on the felt. The glossary is one tap away.
Offline play and resume
Keep playing without a connection. Close the app mid-hand and pick up exactly where you left off, then end with a session recap.
Payouts on the felt
Tap ⓘ on the table for the Blind and Trips pay tables, hand rankings and the lingo glossary.
Free on the App Store and Google Play
Open the Academy and play your first lesson.
Ten lessons, four scripted hands and up to 4,250 practice chips. Then pick a coaching profile on the strategies page and sit down at Lucky Palms.
Virtual chips only. No real-money gambling and no prizes of real-world value. 18+.