Player Guide

Before the Event

Your First Event with PokerSjef

PokerSjef runs in the browser on your phone. There is nothing to install. These are the steps from your first sign-in to your result.

Sign In for the First Time: Use Google or Facebook. Your first sign-in creates your account.
Join Your Club: Open the invite link from your club, or type the club code.
Sign Up for an Event: Press Sign Up beside the event on the Events page.
Check In When You Arrive: On the day of the event, press I’m Here, Check In when you arrive. Then go to the desk.
Find Your Table and Seat: The desk gives you a seat. Your phone shows your table and seat.
See Your Results and the Standings: Your place shows on the Results tab of the event, and in My Results.

If the club sent you an invite link for the event, the link makes you a member of the club at once. Then it asks if you want to sign up for the event.

Sign In for the First Time

You sign in with Google or Facebook. You do not need a password for PokerSjef.

Go to pokersjef.com, or open the link that your club sent you.
Press Continue with Google or Continue with Facebook.
Choose your account on the page of Google or Facebook.
PokerSjef opens again, and you are signed in. Your first sign-in creates your account.

The sign-in card. A new player presses one of the two large buttons.

Use the Same Account Each Time

Use the same Google or Facebook account each time. Another account is a new, empty account.

Do you use both Google and Facebook? Open Profile, then the Sign-In Methods tab. Press Connect Facebook or Connect Google. Then sign in there. PokerSjef asks before it connects the sign-in. After that, both sign-ins open this account.

Do you already have two accounts? Do the same from either account. Then you choose which account to keep. It gets the clubs and the results of both accounts.

Two Google accounts join the same way: press Join Another Google Account. Google shows its list of accounts, so you can choose the other one.

If you sign in with a new account on a phone that another account used, PokerSjef asks if both accounts are yours. If they are, sign in to the other account. Then choose the account to keep.

PokerSjef joins two accounts only after a new sign-in to both. If you signed in on this device more than 15 minutes ago, PokerSjef first asks you to sign in again. Nobody can join an account without a sign-in to it.

If you signed up with Facebook, continue with Facebook next time too. Your club and your signups are on that account.

If Something Is Different

If you opened the link inside Messenger, Facebook or Instagram on an Android phone, Google does not work there. The next article tells you what to do.
On a phone, Facebook can take a few seconds after you press Continue. Press it once, and wait. If Facebook sends you back with an error, PokerSjef starts the sign-in once more by itself.
To read PokerSjef in Norwegian, press NO at the top of the page before you sign in.

Open the Link in Your Phone’s Browser

On an Android phone, Messenger, Facebook and Instagram open a link in their own browser. Google can refuse to sign you in there.

If Google refuses to sign you in inside one of these apps, you have two other ways to sign in.

On an iPhone, both buttons work inside these apps.

Use Facebook

Press Continue with Facebook. It works inside these apps.

Use Google

Press the menu of the app: ⋯ or the More button.
Choose to open the page in the browser.
In Safari or Chrome, press Continue with Google.

You can also copy the link from the menu of the app. Then paste the link into Safari or Chrome.

The sign-in card inside another app on an Android phone. Continue with Facebook comes first, because it works there.

Join Your Club

You see the events of a club when you are a member. There are three ways to join.

With an Invite Link for an Event

Open the invite link that the club sent you, or scan its QR code.
Sign in with Google or Facebook. Your first sign-in creates your account.
The link makes you a member of the club at once. You do not press anything.
The link then asks if you want to sign up for the event. Press Yes, Sign Me Up. The page of the event opens. It says that you are signed up.

The question that an invite link asks after it makes you a member of the club.

If you press No, the Events page of the club opens. You stay a member of the club, and you can sign up for an event there later.

If you are already a member of the club, the link only asks if you want to sign up for the event. If you are already signed up, it only opens the page of the event.

With the Club Code

Get the club code from the club. It has four characters, such as K7P4.
Sign in at pokersjef.com.
Press Join a Club. If you are not in a club yet, the button is on the Events page. It is also in the club menu at the top.
Type the club code. PokerSjef finds the club when you type the fourth character.
Press Ask to Join ….
A director approves your request. Then the club shows in your club menu.

The club code finds the club. Then you ask to join it.

You can also scan the QR code on the poster, or open the join link. Both do the same as the club code.

With an Instant Join Link

If the club sent you an instant join link, or you scan its QR code, you are a member at once. You do not press anything more. If the club replaced that link, the old link still lets you ask to join.

Sign Up for an Event

Your signup keeps a place for you. You pay the buy-in at the desk on the day of the event.

Open the Events page. It is the first page after you sign in.
Find the event. On the day of the event, it is under Active Today.
Press Sign Up beside the event.
The Unregister button then shows beside the event. It tells you that you have a place.

An event before and after you sign up. After the signup, Unregister shows beside the event.

If the Event Is Full

If the event is full, PokerSjef asks first. Press Join the Waiting List to join it. The label beside the event then shows On the Waiting List. On the day of the event, your card at the top of the Events page shows it.

If a place becomes free, the next person on the waiting list gets it. You get no message, but the On the Waiting List label goes away. On the day of the event, your card at the top of the Events page changes. Look at the Events page again later.

Remove Your Name

Press Unregister beside the event.
Press Unregister again to confirm. If there is a waiting list, your place goes to the next person on it.

If you checked in, Unregister is not there. Press Undo My Check-In on your card first.

Good to Know

You can sign up in the app until late entry closes, also after the event starts. After that, only the desk can add you.
A private event shows only to the players who are signed up for it.

On the Day

Check In When You Arrive

On the day of the event, tell the desk from your phone that you are here.

When you arrive, open pokersjef.com on your phone.
When check-in opens, a bar with your event shows at the foot of every page. Your card at the top of the Events page and of the event’s own page has the same button.
Press I’m Here, Check In.
The bar and the card show Checked In and Go to the desk.
Go to the desk. If the event has a buy-in, pay it there.
The desk approves you and gives you your chips. Your card then shows your table and seat.

Your card before check-in opens, when check-in is open, and after you check in.

If Something Is Different

If the card shows Check-in opens at …, wait until that time. Check-in opens one hour before the start, unless the club chose another time.
If you hide the bar with ✕, it comes back the next time you open PokerSjef. Your card still has the button.
If you checked in by mistake, press Undo My Check-In on your card. Then you can unregister.
If the button does not work, tell the desk that you are here. The desk can approve you without a check-in.
If you are on the waiting list, you can check in too. The desk then sees that you are here.
If you sign up with the event’s QR code at the desk after the event starts, PokerSjef checks you in at once. Then the desk gives you your seat.

Check-in only tells the desk that you are here. Only you can check in for yourself. The desk takes the money and gives the seat.

Find Your Table and Seat

When the desk approves you, you get a seat. Your phone shows it.

Your card at the top of the Events page shows your seat in large letters.

Your card when you have a seat.

Press Go to My Table on your card.
The page of your table opens. Your own row is marked You.

The players at your table. Your row is marked You.

On the pages of the event, the My Table tab opens your table.

On every page of the event, the button My Seat T1 · S8 at the top does the same. T1 · S8 means Table 1 · Seat 8.

The button at the top of every page of the event. It opens your table.

Before the start, the room clock shows Find Your Seat. It lists every player with their table and seat.

Every Table

The Tables tab shows every table of the event and who plays at each.

Each table shows its players, its chips and the average, smallest and largest stack. Press a table to see its seats, the empty ones too, with each player’s rebuys and add-ons. Your table is green and opens first. To find a player or a table, type a name or a table number.

The chips are the last stack count of each player. A player with no count shows the starting stack and the chips of their rebuys and add-ons.

When Your Seat Changes

The Floor moves players to balance the tables, or when a table closes. Your phone shows where to go.

Your card shows Move Now, with your new table and seat.
Take your chips to the new seat, between two hands.
Press Go to My New Table to open the page of your new table.
The dealer or the Floor presses Moved when you sit down. Your card then shows your new seat.

Your card when you must move. The last line says why.

If nobody presses Moved within 2 minutes, PokerSjef counts the move as made.

The Final Table

When the field is down to the final table, every player still in draws a new seat. The clock pauses while the players move. Your card shows your new seat at the final table.

If your seat changed and you did not see a move, your card says Your Seat Changed. It also shows the old seat, until you open your table.

Your card after a seat change that you did not see.

Your Card: Every Message

On the day of the event, your card at the top of the Events page says what to do next. This list shows every message.

Follow the Clock and the Blinds

The room clock, your phone and the dealer’s phone show the same clock.

The room clock is the big screen in the room. It shows the level and the time left. Beside the time left, it shows the time since the start and the time to the next break. Under them, it shows the blinds.

In the hour before the start, the large time on the room clock counts down to the start time, with Starts In under it. If the event starts late, it stays at 00:00 until the clock starts. Earlier, it shows the length of the first level.

During a break, the room clock and the table screen show BREAK in large letters on a blue band, in a blue frame.

On Your Phone

Open the event from the Events page.
Press Room Clock by the name of the event. On a phone, it is the television icon.

The top of an event, as a player sees it: the room clock, your seat and three tabs.

While the event runs, the Events page also has a Room Clock button beside the event.

The page of your table shows the clock and the blinds of your game. Press Go to My Table on your card to open it.

How to Play, at the top right of your table, explains the game that your table plays now.

In a break, the page of your table shows the blinds of the next level.

The Structure tab lists every level and every break.

Read the Structure Tab

Before the start, the Structure tab shows the start, the buy-in, the starting stack, the games in their order, and every level and break. When the event runs, the tab shows the entrants, the rebuys, the add-ons, the players left, the prize pool and the average stack.

Three levels and a break. The marked break is the last chance for late entry, a rebuy or an add-on.

The columns after Length show the blinds, the antes and the bets of each level, for each kind of game. What Each Amount Means

Level: The number of the level. The level that is played now is marked now.
Starts: The time of day when the level starts. Before the start, it counts from the planned start. While the clock runs, it counts from the clock, so a pause moves it.
Length: How long the level or the break lasts. No set length means that the break lasts until the Floor or a director starts the clock again.
Break: A time with no play. At a break, the smallest chips can colour up. The structure names them.

One break, or one level, is marked with the close of late entry. Until the end of it, new players can still enter. Rebuys and add-ons close at the same time.

Bust Out, Rebuy and Add-On

When you lose all your chips, you bust out. In some events, you can then buy new chips.

In a freezeout, a player who loses all the chips is out.

If You Can Rebuy

When you bust out, your card shows You can take a rebuy. Go to the desk.
Go to the desk.
Tell the desk if you want the rebuy.
If you take it, pay at the desk. You get new chips and keep your seat.
If you do not want it, tell the desk. The desk then records that you are out.

Your card while you decide on a rebuy.

Until you decide, you have no finishing place. If you say no, you get the place of the time of your bust-out.

Add-On

An add-on is a purchase of more chips, usually at a break. Ask the desk for it.

Give Up Your Stack and Rebuy

In some events, you can give up the chips that you have and take a rebuy. Ask the desk.

Rebuys and add-ons close with late entry. The Structure tab marks when.

How a Mixed-Game Event Works

In a mixed-game event, the tables play different poker games, one after the other.

The level and the clock are the same for the whole room.
Each table plays its own game. After an orbit, the dealer changes the table to the next game.
A new level changes the blinds and the bets. It does not change the game.
The page of your table shows the game now, and the next game after the orbit.
H.O.R.S.E. plays fixed-limit Hold’em, Omaha hi-low, Razz, Seven-card stud and Seven-card stud hi-low, in that order.

How Each Game Is Played

On the page of your table, How to Play explains the game that your table plays now. The Games Guide explains every game. You must sign in to open it. Open the Games Guide

The Games Guide also has a page for each mix. It lists the games in order and says how a table changes game.

Play a Sit & Go

A Sit & Go is a short tournament at one table. The host starts it when the players are ready.

If your club uses Sit & Go, Sit & Go is in the menu, between Events and Ranking. On a phone, it is in the bar at the bottom.

Join a List

Open Sit & Go. The Play tab shows a list for each game, the fullest first, with the time that it has waited.
Press Join on the list of the game that you want to play. You can be on more than one list.
If the club uses a code for the day, type the code. The Floor has it, and the room clock shows it. You type it one time each day. After 10 wrong codes in one hour, you must wait one hour.

You cannot join a list while you play in a running event, or in another Sit & Go. A line then says why. When the event that you are approved into starts, PokerSjef removes you from the lists, and your phone tells you.

When Your Table Is Ready

A full list gets the next free table. The Floor can also prepare a list with fewer players when they agree.

PokerSjef draws the seats. Your phone shows your table and your seat, for example Table 7 · Seat 4, and it makes a sound every 30 seconds.
Press I’m Coming. It is in the bar at the foot of every page, where the check-in also shows. Then go to your table.
The host sits in seat 1. The host chooses the speed and starts the Sit & Go.
In Dealer’s Choice, each player can choose one game. Tell the host your game. Each game plays for one orbit.
Until the start, you can leave the list. Your seat then opens for the next player.

During the Sit & Go

Your phone shows the clock, the blinds, the game and the seats, as at an event. It rings a soft bell when one minute is left, and a chime at each new level.
The blinds increase at each level, as the structure of the club sets them for the speed. There are no breaks.
When you are out, press I’m Out. Then press Yes, I’m Out. The host confirms it too. If the host does not answer, PokerSjef records it after 1 minute. Until then, you are still in the Sit & Go, and you can press Cancel I’m Out. Your place is the place at the time that you pressed it.
When the players who are still in agree to stop, the host asks on the phones. Each player agrees on their own phone. Each of them then gets the average of the places that are left. Nobody wins.
If the Sit & Go ends while your I’m Out waits, it counts first. You do not share the places that are left.

Results

Results on the Sit & Go page shows the Sit & Gos of the club. The leaderboards are on the Ranking page, under Sit & Go. Your own Sit & Gos are in My Results. A Sit & Go does not count in a season. It counts in a league only when the club adds it to that league.

Each single game has its own leaderboard. Every mixed Sit & Go counts on one leaderboard, Mixed.

Be the Host of a Sit & Go

The host starts the Sit & Go and records the players who are out.

When a list gets a table, PokerSjef chooses the host. It is the player with the highest club role, then the player who played the most events of the club. The host sits in seat 1.

Wait for the players to press I’m Coming. Your phone shows who did, and it tells you when all did.
In Dealer’s Choice, ask each player for one game. Add each game: choose the game, then its limit. The table plays the games in that order. You can start with fewer games than players.
Choose the speed.
Start the Sit & Go. Level 1 starts at once.

In Dealer’s Choice, the games stay on the phone that adds them until Start. Another phone does not see them. So the person who presses Start adds the games.

On the page of the table, you have the controls of a dealer. Press Bust Out beside a player who is out. In a mixed game, move the table to the next game after an orbit.
You can also pause and resume the clock. You cannot change the time or the level. The Floor can.
When two or more players are out in the same hand, tick all of them. Then say who started the hand with the most chips. Equal stacks share the place.
When a player presses I’m Out, your phone shows their name. Press Confirm, or Not Out if they still play. If you do not answer, PokerSjef records it after 1 minute. The player gets the place at the time that they pressed it, also when you bust another player before you answer.
If a player presses I’m Out less than 2 minutes after another player is out, your phone asks if it was the same hand.
You can give the host role to another player. Nobody changes seat.

See Your Results and the Standings

Your place shows when you bust out. The standings show your points.

During the Event

Open the event. The Results tab shows the finishing order. Your row is marked You.

When the director publishes the payouts, the tab lists every place with its prize. A place shows a name when a player finishes in it.

Until late entry closes, each new player moves the players who are already out one place back. Tap the state at the top right of the Results card to read this again.

Under Today’s Results, the room clock lists the players who are out. It can also show the points that each player scored today.

After the Event

My Results is in the account menu, and on a phone in the bar at the bottom. It lists your events from every club, where you stand in each season and league, and your statistics.

If your club uses Sit & Go, or you have Sit & Go results, you can choose Events or Sit & Go. Each has its own statistics, graphs and club filter. Sit & Go results do not change your event statistics.

The Sit & Go graph follows your finishing place over time. First place is at the top. Tap a point for its result.

Ranking in the menu shows the standings of the club’s seasons and leagues.

If you win, your card on the Events page offers to add a photo. The photo shows on the room clock and on your winner’s card.

Your Account

Your Profile: Name, Picture and Language

Your profile sets the name that the screens show, your picture and the language of PokerSjef.

Press your picture to open the account menu. On a computer, it is at the bottom left. On a phone, it is at the top right.
Choose Profile.
Change your display name or your picture.
Press Save.

Every roster, seat list and result shows your display name.

Your display name starts as the full name on your Google or Facebook account. If you want another name, change it in your profile.

Your picture helps the Floor recognise you at the desk. It also shows in the standings, and on the room clock if you win.

Change the Language

Open Profile from the account menu.
Choose Language.
Choose English or Norsk.
Press Save.

Before you sign in, press EN or NO at the top of the page. English is the default.

Your language follows your account to every device.

Leave a Club

Open Profile from the account menu.
Choose Your Clubs.
Press Leave beside the club.
Press Leave the Club to confirm.

Your results from past events stay yours. You can ask to join again.

Delete Your Account

If you own a club, transfer it to another director or close it first. Profile lists any other reason that prevents deletion.

Open Profile. Choose the Delete Account tab.
Press Delete Account. Review what it changes.
If PokerSjef asks, sign in again before you continue.
Type your email address to confirm.
Press Delete My Account for Good.

You cannot undo account deletion. Your past results keep their places, without your name or picture.

Leave a Club

Everybody but the owner can leave a club.

Everybody but the owner can leave a club under Your Clubs in Profile. A director can also leave on the Members page. The owner transfers the club to another director first, or closes it, at the bottom of the Club Information page in Club Settings.

Words and Problems

Poker Event Words for New Players

These words are on the room clock, the Structure tab and your card.

Level: A part of the event with fixed blinds. The blinds go up at each new level.
Break: A time with no play between two levels.
Blinds: Forced bets that two players post before the deal. The big blind is usually twice the small blind.
Ante: A small forced bet. With a player ante, every player posts it. With a stud ante, one post covers the whole table.
Colour Up: At a break, the smallest chips leave play. The dealer changes them for larger chips.
Late Entry: The time after the start in which new players can still join.
Freezeout: An event with no rebuys. When you lose all your chips, you are out.
Rebuy: A purchase of new chips after you bust out, while rebuys are open.
Add-On: A purchase of more chips, usually at a break.
Paid Places: The number of places that win a prize.
The Bubble: The moment when one more bust-out puts everyone left in the money.
In the Money: A place that wins a prize.
Hand-for-Hand: At the bubble, every table plays one hand at a time. Players who bust out on the same hand share their places.
Final Table: The last table. The players who are still in draw new seats there.
Heads-Up: The last two players.
Orbit: One turn of the button around the table. In a mixed-game event, the game changes after an orbit.

The Amounts of a Level: SB, BB, Antes and Bets

Each level sets the blinds, the antes and the bets. The room clock, the Structure tab and your table show them with short words.

SB, Small Blind: A forced bet before the deal. The first player to the left of the button posts it.
BB, Big Blind: A forced bet before the deal. The next player to the left posts it. It is usually twice the small blind.
BBA: Big blind ante. The player in the big blind posts one ante for the whole table.
Player Ante, each: Every player posts this ante before the deal. The Structure tab writes each after the amount.
Stud Ante, stud: In a stud game, one player posts this ante for the whole table. The dealer says who posts it. The Structure tab writes stud after the amount.
Bring-In: In a stud game, a small forced bet that starts the first betting round. The player with the lowest face-up card posts it. In Razz, the player with the highest face-up card posts it.
Small Bet: In a fixed-limit game, each bet and each raise in the early betting rounds is one small bet.
Big Bet: In a fixed-limit game, each bet and each raise in the later betting rounds is one big bet.

In games with a flop, the big bet starts on the turn. In stud, it starts on 5th street. In triple draw, it starts after the second draw.

In a fixed-limit game with blinds, the big blind is one small bet. So the Structure tab shows no BB for that game.

If the stud and limit games use the same bets, the Structure tab shows them once, under Stud and Limit Bets.

A stud game collects a player ante or a stud ante, never both. The structure chooses which one, level by level. When PokerSjef makes the levels, it chooses the stud ante while it is at most a tenth of the starting stack, then the player ante. The change comes after a break when possible. You can change it on any level.

A dash (–) means that the amount does not apply to that game. A 0 means that the amount is zero.

A new level changes these amounts at every table. In a mixed-game event, a new level does not change the game of a table.

Sign-In and Check-In Problems

Most problems have a short fix. If nothing here helps, ask the desk.

If no club shows after you sign in, you possibly used another account. Sign out. Then sign in with the account that you used to sign up.
If you asked to join a club and it does not show, a director did not approve you yet. Ask the club.
If the sign-in card says that Google does not work, you opened the link inside another app. Press Continue with Facebook, or open the link in Safari or Chrome.
If you have no card on the Events page, the event is not today, or you used another account.
If your card does not show I’m Here, Check In, check-in is not open yet. The card says when it opens.
If the check-in button gives an error, tell the desk that you are here. The desk can approve you.
If you got a place from the waiting list, you get no message. Before the day of the event, the On the Waiting List label beside the event goes away. On the day, your card at the top of the Events page changes.
If the clock says that it is estimated, your phone has no link to the server now. The clock continues to count from what it last knew.