Onboarding

How a new player learns blackjack and meets the tables one by one. Players created before onboarding shipped are not guided: every table is open and no explanation shows.

Milestones and table unlocks

A guided player reaches milestones: finishing or skipping the practice, a Classic win at the top stake, a win at Poker Head's Table, the first visits to his builds and rules, a few settled Classic runs, and the first relief. Poker Head's Table opens after a top-stake Classic win; J-54's opens after a Poker Head win, and its silhouette shows from the Classic milestone. A table not open yet appears in New run as a "???" shadow with a hint and cannot be started. The result screen announces a table a run opened.

The practice table

On the first New run Poker Head offers a practice, which can be skipped. It is a hidden table with no Chaos AI and no shop, played with practice chips that never touch the vault. Five scripted hands teach standing, hitting, doubling, surrendering and a natural, with only the taught button active on the first decision; a sixth hand is free play while Poker Head reads the strategy chart's advice. Afterwards the basic-strategy chart opens with his explanation that even the best play loses a little and the tables' items are what turn luck into an edge; the chart stays in the Collection.

Guidance afterwards

Until a few Classic runs have settled, a guided player's Classic bets are capped at a quarter of the cash instead of half. On the first visit Poker Head explains cores and build buffs, and when his first rule arrives he explains rules, including their tiers. The first relief comes with an explanation; later ones get two short lines.

First visit to J-54's Table

There is no practice table for J-54: it explains the real run inside the player's first visit, once each, in its programmatic voice. At the start it explains the deck, the heat strip, compute and the two removals and the two winning routes; then the firmware choice; at the first "Next condition" announcement the conditions and camps; and once Release is first affordable, the sealed Joker and the capture. The area it talks about is highlighted while it speaks, and the first time the meter reaches its second band a one-line hint says what the band suggests. Everything can be skipped, and unguided players get none of it.

Shop and bag steps and replaying the practice are not covered yet.