Lifetime Stats, Poker Radar Chart & Cosmetics: The May 2026 PartyPot Update

We promised after Chinese New Year that the next big release would be about depth, not new game modes — better stats, better polish, and the small flow fixes hosts kept asking for. That release is now live. Every change in this post came from a feedback message, an App Store review, or a real game-night bug report. If you sent any of them, your name is in the version notes in spirit.

Here's what shipped, where to find it in the app, and how each feature behaves at a real table.

1. Player Lifetime Stats

Until this update, PartyPot was session-scoped: open the room, play, settle, close. The history was there in the transaction history, but it didn't roll up. Now every account has a Lifetime Stats page that aggregates every session you've ever played — across every game mode, every group, every device.

What you see on your own profile:

• Sessions played — total count plus a breakdown by game (Poker, Mahjong, Ban Luck, Blackjack, In Between, Chor Dai Ti, custom rooms, etc.).
• Net result — lifetime profit/loss in your default currency. Toggle to see “Last 30 days”, “Last 90 days”, or “All time”.
• Best session / worst session — biggest single-night win and biggest single-night loss, with a tap-through to the original room ledger.
• Win-rate — percentage of sessions where you ended up positive. Calculated per-game, not just overall, so your Mahjong win-rate isn't dragged down by a rough month at the poker table.
• Hours played — sum of session durations. Useful if you're tracking how much real time the hobby is costing you.
• Most-played opponent — the person you've been across the table from most. We've had a lot of fun comments about this one.

Privacy: lifetime stats are private by default. Other players in a room can see your session result (that's the whole point of a shared ledger), but they cannot see your lifetime numbers unless you choose to share a screenshot. We don't expose a global leaderboard, and we don't plan to. PartyPot is for in-person groups, not for a public ladder.

2. The Six-Axis Poker Radar Chart

The radar chart only appears for accounts with enough Poker Mode sessions to compute a stable signal (currently a minimum of 10 sessions). It scores you on six axes from 0 to 100, computed from your audit-log history — not self-reported, not survey-based:

Each axis is normalised against your own group by default, not against a global average. A “tight” player in a loose-aggressive group looks very different from a “tight” player in a study-grinder group, and a global average would flatten that. Toggle to “Global average” if you want to see how your style compares across all PartyPot users — it's opt-in and aggregated, never individual.

The chart is descriptive, not prescriptive. Bigger radar area isn't automatically “better.” A high-aggression, low-tightness player can win, and a low-aggression, high-tightness player can win — they win different ways. The chart is useful for two things: spotting leaks (your discipline score crashed last month — what changed?) and settling group arguments about who actually plays which style.

3. Cosmetic Items

A clean PartyPot promise: core features stay free, forever. Cosmetics are how we plan to keep the lights on without ever putting a paywall in front of a room, a settlement, or a stats page. This release introduces the first batch:

• Avatar frames — animated frame around your player avatar at the table. Twelve designs in this drop, including a CNY gold-coin frame, a Mahjong tile frame, and a chip-stack frame.
• Table themes — change the colour and pattern of the virtual table felt in Poker and Center Pot rooms. Five themes at launch, more on the way.
• Chip skins — alternate visuals for the digital chip stack in Poker Mode. The default clay-chip look is still there; the new options are neon-rim, monochrome, and a translucent “ghost chip” set.
• Settle-Up flourishes — short animations that play on the end-of-game Smart Settlement screen. Confetti, fireworks, a CNY firecracker burst — all skippable, none of them slow the settlement down.

Cosmetics never affect gameplay. They don't give bonus chips, faster settlements, or priority anything. They're purely visual. Some are free, some are a few dollars, and a rotating set is unlocked by milestones on the new lifetime-stats page (e.g., “Play 50 sessions” unlocks one frame). Hosts and players can run a full PartyPot night without ever opening the shop.

4. Poker Mode — Smoother Everywhere It Mattered

Poker Mode shipped in January with the 2-layer money system (see the original Poker Mode launch post). Four months of real-table use surfaced a list of papercuts. The biggest fixes in this update:

• Faster bet entry. The bet sheet now opens with the minimum legal raise pre-filled. Pot-sized, half-pot, and all-in are one tap. No more fat-finger typos on a $200 raise that was meant to be $20.
• Cleaner side pot UI. When multiple side pots exist, each one is rendered as its own labelled card with the eligible players listed. Confusion about “who can win which pot” should be gone.
• Quieter audio. Action chimes are 30% softer and can be muted independently of haptics. Late-night home games stop waking the kids.
• Auto-rebuy guardrail. If a player rebuys three times in under 30 minutes, the app surfaces a soft prompt to the host: “Is everything okay at the table?” Optional, dismissable, off by default — but available.
• Hand-history export. The room ledger can now be exported as a CSV for the host's records. Useful if your group keeps a yearly leaderboard.

5. Mahjong — Score Entry Without the Math Brain

Mahjong score entry was the most-reviewed flow in our Q1 surveys. Hosts kept saying the same thing: “the rules are correct, but the screens make me think too hard mid-hand.” This update reworks the hand-input flow:

• Fan-table presets. Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Malaysian and Singaporean variants now ship with their own fan tables built in. Pick your variant once at room setup — the score panel adapts.
• Tap-to-add fan. Common winning patterns (Pong-Pong, Mixed One Suit, Pure One Suit, All Honours, Heavenly Hand, Earthly Hand, etc.) are buttons. Tap the patterns that apply; the fan count updates live; the payout calculates itself.
• East-wind double tracking. The dealer/east bonus and the dealer-pass condition are now handled automatically. No more arguments about whether east doubled this round.
• Self-pick vs. discard. One tap to mark the win type. The payout split (one payer vs. all payers) applies automatically based on house rules set at room creation.

Full game mechanics are still covered in the Mahjong scoring beginner's guide; this update doesn't change the rules, just the speed of telling the app what happened.

6. Transfer the Host Role in Poker Rooms

This was the most upvoted item in our feedback inbox after Poker Mode launched. Until now, the host of a poker room was locked in for the session. If the host needed to leave early, had a flat battery, or just wanted to play a few hands without managing the room, there was no clean way to hand the keys over.

Starting this update, the host can transfer the host role mid-session to any seated player. The flow:

1. Host opens the room menu and taps Transfer host.
2. The host picks any player currently in the room. The picker shows session win/loss and time-at-table so you can pick someone you trust to actually stay.
3. The chosen player receives a prompt: “Accept host role?” They confirm or decline. No silent reassignment — both sides agree.
4. On accept, the host badge moves, the new host gets full banker controls (buy-in approval, pot payouts, side-pot adjudication, settlement trigger), and the audit log records the transfer with a timestamp.
5. The previous host can keep playing as a normal seated player — or leave entirely. Their balance is unaffected.

Transfers are logged in the room's audit log so disputes about “who paid out which pot” can be settled by reading the timeline. There's also a related FAQ on how host transfer works for the policy details. For now the feature is poker-only; we're rolling it out to Center Pot and generic rooms in the next minor release.

7. Got Feedback? The In-App Form Is Now One Tap from the Profile

Every feature on this page started in a feedback message. To make that loop easier to close, the Send Feedback action is now one tap from the profile screen — no email client, no support portal, no captcha. Write what you think, attach a screenshot if you want, hit send.

We read every one. We can't always reply individually, but every message lands in a shared inbox the whole team triages. If your message turns into a feature, you'll see it in a future release-notes post like this one. The fastest way to influence the roadmap is to send a clear, specific note from the in-app form.

Prefer email? hello@partypotapp.com still works and goes to the same inbox.

Release Details

Related reading: the original Poker Mode launch for the 2-layer money system and side-pot mechanics this update polishes; the CNY 2026 feedback roadmap for the full backlog this update started knocking off; and Smart Settlement explained for the math that powers the end-of-session payouts and the new settle-up flourishes.

Stats on. Chips up. Game on. ♠️