The table knows.
Every card. Every chip. Every story — live on screen.
TableTell turns a poker table into a TV-grade broadcast studio, powered by CardVision: the RFID engine that reads every card the moment it lands on the felt. No cameras pointed at cards. No manual input. Just play.
CardVision — the eyes under the felt
Every playing card carries an RFID chip. Antennas under each seat and each board position read them continuously, and a sanity layer turns raw reads into a clean, trustworthy game state.
Reads everything
Hole cards per seat, the board street by street, the dealer button — picked up the moment cards touch the felt, at multiple reads per second.
Trusts nothing
Ghost reads, interference and cards moving between antennas are filtered by arbitration rules, board locks and sequential-fill logic. What you see is what lies on the table.
Forgives the dealer
An exposed card? Lay the replacement on the same spot and the system swaps it within seconds — and correctly counts the seen card as dead for the odds.
Built for the show
One machine at the table drives every screen in the room: broadcast scenes for OBS, a director's remote and a feed for the rail.
TV-grade table scene
Nine seats with live cards, win percentages and hand-strength labels, chip stacks and bets rendered on the felt, pot, blinds and tournament clock — plus a virtual dealer character your club can make its own.
Camera overlays & a duel scene
Transparent overlays for your table camera, and a heads-up “duel” scene styled like a nineties fighting game — glowing equity bar, all the outs on screen, drama included.
Run it twice & triple board
Agree it at the all-in, and the engine freezes the pots, splits them per run and keeps every finished board on screen — exactly like the streams do it.
Director's remote
One person runs the whole table from a phone: bets and raises on a slider, automatic side pots, split pots, busts, misdeals — with undo across hands and a chip-count watchdog. Works in cash games too, in euros, down to the €0.25 chip.
Railbirding
Spectators scan a QR code and follow the night on their phone: the running hand as a closed teaser (zero leak, by design), finished hands as written stories — “Rudi (A♠ J♠) raises to 6 BB…” — with a replay of every hand.
A simulator with a brain
A built-in engine deals and plays believable poker — preflop ranges, pot odds, player personalities — through the exact same pipeline as real cards. Demo your setup, rehearse your show, or train a director without dealing a single card. It's how every screenshot on this page was made.
And the bookkeeping to back it up
Full hand history with replays, side pots computed automatically, tournament clock integration, cash-game mode, per-hand action stories, a live leaderboard — and a monitor showing the health of every antenna. When chips and cards disagree, TableTell notices.
Who it's for
Poker clubs
Give your final table the production your players brag about. One laptop, your camera, OBS — and a broadcast that looks like television.
Home games
The same engine scales down to a living room. Run it twice with your friends and watch both boards land on the screen above the table.
Builders
TableTell is being built DIY-first: the plan is a build kit — readers, antennas and the software brain — so you can put it inside your own table.
Follow the build
TableTell is in active development at pokerclub Black Bullets
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