Moose Ferguson
Regular · Travels everywhere
The Ceilidh Room · Halifax, Nova Scotia
Hold'em,
coast to coast.
A poker club told in Canadian. Bet with a curling stone, learn from a coach called the Skip, and sit down with regulars who have tells, moods and long memories.
Free Plays offline Virtual chips only
Canada × poker
Every Canadian thing is a poker thing
Nothing at the club is decoration. Each Canadian piece is a working part of the game, from the curling button to a voyageur's portage.
The button
Curling's button is the centre of the house. A Last Stone Draw decides who takes the dealer's.
The hammer
The last stone of the end. At the table, it is acting last after the flop.
The skip's broom
The skip marks the target. The coach plants the broom on the bet she would make.
Chirping
Hockey's trash talk, aimed across the felt to put a rival on tilt.
At the table
Real Hold'em, with a Canadian accent
Play No-Limit Hold'em and its cousins against regulars who bluff, steam and remember. The cards are honest; the company is the point.
The curling lane
Bet with a curling stone
Your bet control is a sheet of ice. Slide the stone to size the bet: the hog line is the minimum raise, the rings are a third, a half and two thirds of the pot, the tee line is the pot and the back line is all in.
- Hog line: the minimum raise
- Tee line: the pot
- Back line: all in
A coach at your elbow
The Skip calls the weight
Marguerite “Skip” Doucet, from Caraquet, plants her broom where she would throw and says why in a line. Tap the broom and the stone slides there. Set her to say more, less or nothing at all.
- Her broom marks the bet she would make
- One clear reason, in curling terms
- Full, broom only, or off
Banter
Chirp the table, eh
Once an orbit you can throw a chirp: pick a regular, pick one of four lines, each with its heat in pucks. They steam, they answer back, and a regular on tilt plays looser. Push Moose too far and he walks out with his chips.
- Heat from one to three pucks
- Steam rises off a rival on tilt
- Moose leaves if you over-chirp him
Dealer's choice
The Kitchen Party
Six seats, three orbits, and every dealer calls the game for their hand: No-Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha or Five-Card Draw. The regulars call their favourites aloud, and the band plays louder as the pot grows.
- Hold'em, Omaha or Draw, hand by hand
- A session band under the night
- Most chips at the last tune takes the purse
All in
Run, Décharge or Portage
When the chips are in with cards to come, the table votes like voyageurs at a rapid: run the board once, unload it twice, or carry it three times. Every regular votes in character, and the fewest boards anyone asks for is the one dealt.
- Run: one board
- Décharge: two boards
- Portage: three boards
The boss of Nova Scotia
Take on Angus “Reel” MacLean
A fiddler from Cape Breton who picks his games. He plays members from Standing 70, heads-up for 300 a side, and taps a reel on the rail while he waits. Listen to the rail. Win, and the Queen of Clubs is yours.
- Earn Standing to get the invitation
- Three tunes: the march, the strathspey, the reel
- The prize: the Queen of Clubs
Your passport
Stamp your club passport
Every club that welcomes you stamps your passport. Canada Cards rank the provinces in the order they joined Confederation, and their suits are the trials you pass. Nova Scotia is the Queen.
- Hold to stamp your entry
- Ranks follow Confederation
- Your title grows with your hand
Every morning
One stone a day
The Morning Draw: one curling stone each morning against the regulars' throws. Pull back for weight, aim at the Skip's broom and sweep it on. Land near the button for chips to your Reserve.
- One throw a day
- Pull, aim, release, sweep
- Chips to your Reserve
Around the club
More on the club board
Three Stars
After a sitting, the night's three stars: your best read, your best decision and the hand of the night.
Power-ups
Lantern, Owl’s Eye, Hat Trick, Snowbank, Fresh Ice and Lighthouse. One plays at the table each hand.
Hand log and replays
Every hand is kept. Tap one to watch it again, street by street.
Milestone pins
Pins for the moments that matter, from your first pot to a flush or better, claimed in your Locker.
The squeeze
Peel your hole cards up from the corner, slowly, the way the room does.
All-in theatre
All in with cards to come: time slows, the odds rise in ribbons of light, and you hear your heartbeat.
The living map
Canada across its six time zones, with Halifax lit for tonight.
Plays offline
No account and no connection needed. The club travels with you.
The regulars
Pull up a chair
Five regulars hold the Ceilidh Room's seats. Each plays a style you learn to spot, and each has a mood tonight.
Priya Sandhu
Regular · Surrey, British Columbia
Gord Halloran
Regular · Winnipeg, Manitoba
Tyler “Chirps” MacNeil
Regular · Sydney, Cape Breton
Nan Kavanagh
Regular · St. John’s, Newfoundland
A look inside
Screens from the club
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Free to play
Download, sit down and play. There is nothing to buy at the club.
Virtual chips only
Chips are won and lost at the club and stay there. Nothing is wagered and nothing is cashed out.
Plays offline
No account and no connection needed. Your progress stays on your phone.
Halifax, tonight
The Ceilidh Room is open.
Pull up a chair. The regulars are dealing No-Limit Hold'em, and the Skip has her broom out.