About Us
What is The High Card Room?
The High Card Room is an online poker platform built for players who take the game seriously. We run cash games, sit & go tournaments, and scheduled multi-table events with real competition and real payouts. Whether you're grinding micro-stakes on your lunch break or battling through a Saturday night tournament, this is where you come to play.
We built the platform from scratch with one principle that most poker sites treat as an afterthought: every player should be able to sit down and compete on equal footing. That means full keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, and an interface designed to get out of your way and let you focus on the cards. Sighted players get a clean, modern experience. Players using NVDA, JAWS, or VoiceOver get the exact same functionality — no compromises, no separate "accessible mode." Just poker.
What We Offer
Cash tables where you set the stakes, the blinds, and the pace. Sit & go tournaments that fire as soon as seats fill. Scheduled tournaments with customizable blind structures, re-buy options, and payout distributions you control. A profile system with stats tracking, achievement badges, and leaderboards that rank you against players worldwide. A shop for premium card backs, table felts, avatar upgrades, and cosmetic effects. And a settings panel that lets you tune everything from your table felt color to your notification preferences.
Accessibility at The High Card Room
Most online poker platforms were designed for sighted users first and accessible users never. The High Card Room was designed the other way around. Our interface is built on semantic HTML with full WAI-ARIA support, tested with NVDA on Windows, JAWS, and VoiceOver on iOS. Every control on the site — every button, every dropdown, every slider, every modal — is keyboard-operable and screen reader-announced. Focus management is handled properly: modals trap focus, drawers return it, and tab order follows logical page structure. We meet WCAG 2.2 AA standards across the board, and we aim higher wherever we can. If you find something that doesn't work with your assistive technology, we want to know about it.
Fair Play and Security
Your money and your data are handled with the same seriousness we bring to the cards. Transactions are processed through industry-standard encrypted payment systems. Game outcomes are determined by certified random number generation — no house edge, no rigged decks. Player accounts are protected by optional two-factor authentication, session management, and the ability to review and terminate active sessions from any device. We also offer full GDPR-compliant data export and account deletion for players who want control over their information.
Our Story
The High Card Room started as a question: why isn't there a poker site that blind players can actually use? Not a watered-down version with limited features, but a full-featured platform where a screen reader user and a sighted user sit at the same table with the same tools. That question turned into a build, the build turned into a platform, and now you're looking at it. We're a small team, we're growing, and we're building this thing in the open. If you've got feedback, ideas, or you just want to tell us about a bad beat, reach out. The table's open.