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Playbook Poker

Dealt, drawn, dominated — poker hands multiply your fantasy points.

Illustration with sample numbers, not live data.

Playbook Poker is what happens when a card game meets daily fantasy. You don't research a slate and build a lineup — you're dealt five random NFL players and you play the hand you're given. Teams work like suits and positions like ranks, so five Chiefs is a Flush and one of each skill position is a Straight.

The skill is in the read: which cards do you hold, and which do you throw back? Keeping a mediocre tight end because he completes a Full House can be worth more than swapping him for a better player. It takes under a minute, and the randomness is what makes it a story worth telling.

How it works

When you enter, the deal happens immediately: five random players from that contest's pool, each showing name, team, position and projected points. You then choose up to three to discard and draw replacements from the remaining deck — or hold all five. That single redraw is the whole strategic layer, and once you use it the hand is locked. When the games go final we add up your five players' half-PPR fantasy points and multiply that total by your best qualifying hand. Only the best hand applies — they don't stack. Every deal runs off a seed the platform commits to before anyone enters, and the seed is published afterwards so you can replay your own shuffle and check it.

Scoring

Flush (all 5 one team)2.5x points
Full House (3 + 2 teams)1.75x points
Straight (QB/RB/WR/TE)1.5x points

When it runs

Every NFL slate, all season. Contests open as soon as the slate is posted and lock at the slate's first kickoff; your hand is dealt when you enter, not at lock.

Riding a Full House

You're dealt a Chiefs quarterback, two Chiefs receivers, a Bills back and a Jets tight end. Three from one team, but the last two don't pair — that's a Three of a Kind, a 1.4x multiplier.

You throw back the tight end and draw a second Bill. Now it's three Chiefs and two Bills: a Full House, 1.75x. The hand locks.

Sunday, your five combine for 76 fantasy points. The Full House multiplies that to 133 — enough to finish ahead of a rival whose five scored 95 raw points but made nothing better than a Pair.

What makes Playbook Poker different

You don't pick your players — you're dealt them, so there's no research grind to lose to.
Hand multipliers mean a worse set of players can beat a better one, which keeps every deal live.
The shuffle is provably fair: the seed is committed before the deal and published after, so you can verify it yourself.

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