How LynxPoker handles money
The short answer is that it doesn't handle yours. A poker club pays us for the software: a monthly or yearly plan that includes player credits. Everything else that moves on tournament night moves between the club and its players, at the club's own desk, without us.
The whole of it, in four points
- The only money LynxPoker processes is its own fee for the software: plans and extra credits, paid by the club.
- Every buy-in, re-entry, add-on and prize is collected and paid out by the club itself, at its own venue, by its own staff, in cash or by whatever method that club already uses.
- LynxPoker holds no player balances, operates no wallet, and issues no chips, tokens or points that anyone can redeem for anything. Player credits are a prepaid allowance to use the software: one is used up when a club adds a player to a tournament. Credits cannot be transferred and are never redeemable for money or anything of value.
- The software deals no cards, generates no random result, accepts no wager and determines no outcome — it records what the club's staff enter.
Where the money actually goes
On tournament night a player hands their entry to the club's desk, in cash or however that club takes it. The desk writes it down in LynxPoker so the room knows who is playing, at which table, in which seat. At the end of the night the club pays out its prizes, from its own funds, to the players standing in front of it.
LynxPoker is in none of those steps. It is the record of what happened, in the same way a whiteboard or a scoresheet is — which is exactly how the Terms describe it.
But the software calculates prize money
It does, and that is worth being precise about. LynxPoker computes a distribution table: given an entry amount, the club's cut and the number of entries, it works out what each finishing place is owed. That is arithmetic, printed on a screen.
It is not a payment. Nothing is transferred, nothing is held, and the club is free to ignore the table entirely. A spreadsheet that totals a column is not a bank, and neither is this.
What we charge for
Plans priced by the players a club runs, in US dollars, with extra credits for busy months. Nothing is charged to players, and no fee depends on buy-ins, prize pools or results.
That is the whole commercial relationship. Current prices are on the pricing page.
Is LynxPoker gambling software?
No. It manages tournaments as events — the clock, the blind structure, seating and table balancing, registrations, dealer shifts, the screens on the wall. It has no game in it. You cannot play a hand of poker in LynxPoker, and there is nothing in it to bet on.
Whether a given club may lawfully run its events is a question for that club and its own advisers, in its own jurisdiction. We sell software to businesses that run lawful events, and that requirement is written into the Terms.
The same thing, contractually
These are not marketing claims. Section 2.2 of the Terms of Service states that the Service does not facilitate, process, hold or transmit any buy-ins, entry fees, payouts, wagers or real-money transactions of any kind, and does not act as a payment processor, escrow agent or financial intermediary. Section 2.3 sets out the flow of funds in full.
If you are reviewing LynxPoker for a payment provider, a bank or a partner and need anything else in writing, email [email protected] and you will get a straight answer the same day.