Chips & economy

Chips & your wallet

The two currencies on the platform, how chips move between your club balance and the table, and how granted chips enter and leave it.

Each club has its own play-money chip currency, used only inside that club. You hold chips in a Club Chip Balance off the table, take a buy-in from it to sit down, and get whatever you have left back when you stand up.

The two currencies

MPoker has exactly two kinds of value, and they never mix:

• Club chips — play money with no monetary value. Per-club, granted by your club's operators, used for buy-ins, pots, rakeback, and commission.
• MGold — platform credit. It pays a club's subscription plan and nothing else: it can't be converted to chips, staked at a table, withdrawn, or paid out as rakeback. You hold MGold in a personal wallet and can deposit it into a club's or union's treasury; from there only the club's plan can spend it. See Plans & billing.

Balance vs. table stack

• Club Chip Balance — your spendable pool in a club, off the table.
• Table stack — the chips in front of you at a seat.
• Buying in moves chips from balance to stack; standing up moves what's left back. Nothing is created or destroyed in that round trip — it just changes location.

Each club is a separate wallet. Chips in one club can't be used in another, and a club you just joined starts you at zero until someone grants you chips there. This holds on union tables too: the seat is funded by the home club you sit through, and your winnings return to that same club — chips from your other clubs can't back that seat.

How chips enter and leave your balance

• Mint — an owner or manager creates chips and credits them to you. This is how chips first enter your account.
• Transfer — chips move between members. Admins can transfer to anyone; an agent can transfer only to their own players.
• Burn — an admin removes chips from your balance; this is how granted chips leave a club again.

Buy-ins and top-ups

• The buy-in range is set by the table, and the maximum offered to you is also capped by what you actually hold.
• Top-up adds chips to your stack on a cash table, up to the table maximum. If you ask for more than fits, only the fitting amount is added — that "partial top-up" message is normal, not an error.
• You can never have more than the table maximum on the table at once (the "rathole" cap).
• Top-ups are cash-table only; tournaments don't allow them.

Your ledger

My Ledger is the full record of every chip movement involving you — buy-ins, table exits, top-ups, transfers, mint/burn, tournament entries, refunds and prizes, and claimed rewards — each with a running balance and timestamp. It is the single source of truth for how your balance changed.