Costanza Poker

Inverted Hold'em — where the worst hand wins

Hold 'Em, But Worst Hand Wins.

Weirdest Game.Ever.

Finally, a game where bad luck is the strategy.
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2,000

You

2,000

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In Costanza Poker, everything is the opposite.
The worst hand in regular poker is the best hand here.

emoji_events Hand Rankings (Best → Worst)

High Card — The ultimate winner. Nothing fits together.
One Pair — Second best. Just two matching cards.
Two Pair
Three of a Kind
Straight — A-2-3-4-5 is the best straight; T-J-Q-K-A is the worst.
Flush
Full House
Four of a Kind
Straight Flush — Almost always fatal. A-2-3-4-5 suited is the one version you can live with.
Royal Flush — T-J-Q-K-A suited. You made it. You should be proud. Now please, just go low.

playing_cards The Game

Heads-up (2 players) Texas Hold'em rules — but rankings are inverted.
Hold'em mode: Each player gets 2 hole cards. Use any combination of hole cards and board to make your best 5-card hand.
Omaha mode: Each player gets 4 hole cards. You must use exactly 2 of your hole cards and exactly 3 board cards.
Five community cards are dealt (Flop, Turn, River).
Best 5-card hand wins — but “best” means closest to High Card.
Blinds start at 10 / 20. Starting stacks are 2,000.
Match plays until one player runs out of chips.

calculate Tiebreakers

Within the same hand type, lower card values win.
High card / Flush: lowest top card wins — 7-high beats Q-high, 2-high beats Ace-high.
Pairs / Trips / Quads: lowest rank wins — pair of 2s beats pair of Aces.
Straights: Ace plays low (as 1) — A-2-3-4-5 is the best straight because it's the lowest. T-J-Q-K-A is the worst.
Outside of straights, Ace is always high (14) — so it's the worst card to have in your high-card hand or flush.

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Avoid connecting cards — straights and flushes hurt you.
Mixed suits, non-sequential ranks are your best friends.
Suited connectors (7♠8♠) are trash — fold them.
Offsuit, disconnected cards (2♣ 9♦) are gold.
The Hand panel bottom-right shows your current hand rank and percentile in real time.

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Fold — Give up the hand.
Check — Pass action (when no bet to call).
Call — Match the opponent's bet.
Bet / Raise — Put more chips in. Use the size slider.
All In — Bet your entire stack.

Blinds increase on a timer in Normal, Turbo, and Hyper modes. Friendly mode keeps blinds fixed at Level 1 forever.

timer Level Timers

handshake Friendly Blinds never increase

flag Normal New level every 10 minutes

bolt Turbo New level every 6 minutes

rocket_launch Hyper New level every 3 minutes

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BB-ante (= Big Blind) applies at every level when Ante is enabled.

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
1	10	20	20
2	15	30	30
3	20	40	40
4	25	50	50
5	30	60	60
6	40	80	80
7	50	100	100
8	60	120	120
9	75	150	150
10	100	200	200
11	125	250	250
12	150	300	300
13	200	400	400
14	250	500	500
15	300	600	600
16	400	800	800
17	500	1,000	1,000
18	600	1,200	1,200
19	800	1,600	1,600
20	1,000	2,000	2,000

Every game has a simulated prize pool built from each seat’s buy-in — here’s how it pays out.

payments How It Works

Every seat at the table counts toward the prize pool at the standard buy-in (2,000 chips, or 100 chips in Larry’s Basement).
When the match ends, you get paid based on the table size and the place you finished, using the breakdown below.
2nd place is only paid out in 6-handed games. Heads-up and 4-handed games only pay 1st place.

emoji_events Payout Structure

Table Size	Prize Pool	1st Place	2nd Place
Heads-Up (2p)	4,000	4,000 (100%)	—
4-Handed	8,000	8,000 (100%)	—
6-Handed	12,000	8,000 (2/3)	4,000 (1/3)

Larry’s Basement (penny mode) pays the same percentages on a smaller 100-chip-per-seat pool.

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Costanza Poker

Weirdest Game.Ever.

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emoji_events Hand Rankings (Best → Worst)

playing_cards The Game

calculate Tiebreakers

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touch_app Actions

timer Level Timers

format_list_numbered Blind Schedule

payments How It Works

emoji_events Payout Structure