V1.8.1 Update: Short Deck & Omaha Expanded

V1.8.1 is now live!

This update delivers a major expansion to Omaha, a unified strategy experience across game modes, a rebuilt News Center, cross-platform cloud saves, and a wide range of gameplay and interface improvements.

[SHORT DECK EXPANSION]

• Short Deck Tournaments now support 36–72 players with 6-max tables and a $3,200 ticket.

• Every field size rewards the final table; 60/66/72-player fields use an expanded payout structure, and blinds increase every 6 hands.

• Short Deck Cash uses an 8-max table, supports $2,000–$20,000 buy-ins, and uses a $20 regular ante with a $40 button ante.

• The Short Deck Cash AI lineup includes 2 professionals, 2 legends, 2 bosses, and 1 regular player.

• Both Short Deck Tournaments and Cash now use the dedicated Short Deck strategy system, with live hand strength, equity, position, stage, ICM/cash pressure, and action guidance.

• Improved the top seat in 6-player Short Deck tables and centered the top/side seats in 4-player layouts.

[NEW: OMAHA CASH]

• A new 6-max, four-card PLO cash table is now available.

• Blinds are $25 / $50 with no ante, and players can bring $2,000–$20,000 to the table.

• The table uses Pot-Limit betting with a 5% rake capped at 3 BB.

• Every final hand strictly uses exactly 2 hole cards and 3 community cards.

• Omaha Cash Strategy V2 provides live advice based on hand strength, SPR, multiway pressure, the nuts, redraws, and rake.

• Includes a dedicated Omaha AI lineup, top-ups, cash-out settlement, tasks, and career statistics.

[OMAHA TOURNAMENT UPGRADES]

• Improved the complete 36–72 player, 6-max Omaha Tournament structure.

• Refined blind levels, payouts, table balancing, final-table flow, and champion settlement.

• Fixed showdown highlighting in both Omaha Cash and Omaha Tournaments. Only the exact 2 hole cards and 3 community cards that form the best hand are now highlighted.

[STRATEGY SYSTEM OVERHAUL]

• Regular Tournament Training, Tournament Zone modes, and Cash Zone modes now use a unified live strategy guidance system.

• The old Dynamic Strategy and GTO betting panels have been replaced with an expanded version of the Short Deck strategy presentation.

• Short Deck, Omaha, and regular modes now use their own theme colors and mode-specific strategic guidance.

• Omaha advice now accounts for Pot-Limit caps, SPR, multiway pots, tournament ICM, and cash-game rake.

[NEWS CENTER & GLOBAL RECORDS]

The News Center now displays the latest Steam announcement and supports the following global milestone broadcasts:

• First champion of a 72-player Short Deck Tournament.

• First player to personally eliminate Tan Xuan in a Short Deck Tournament.

• First champion of a 72-player Omaha Tournament.

• First player to complete the WPT, EPT, WSOP, and MBT championship collection.

When a record is completed, the announcement displays the Steam nickname of the first player to achieve it.

[ACHIEVEMENTS, TASKS & COMPENSATION]

• Added client support for 6 new Steam achievements covering Short Deck, Omaha tournaments, and cash-game challenges.

• Added the special task “Win an Omaha Tournament,” rewarding 150,000 chips.

• Added a one-time V1.8.1 compensation button in the lobby. Each player can claim 2,000,000 chips once.

[CROSS-PLATFORM SAVES & SECURITY]

• Steam Cloud saves now synchronize across Windows and macOS.

• Added legacy-save migration, conflict handling, and compatibility protection.

• The Steam Web API Key remains exclusively in the secure server environment and is never embedded in the decompilable game client.

[OTHER IMPROVEMENTS]

• Improved 4-player and 6-player seat layouts in Short Deck Tournaments.

• Improved macOS interface adaptation and local runtime stability.

• Fixed News Center delivery, hand lifecycle, task progress, and multiple interface display issues.

Thank you to everyone who continues to share feedback. We will keep improving tournaments, cash games, and professional strategy training!