Big Update: Build Your Estate, Texas Hold'em Poker for Everyone, and a Pile of Fixes

🏛️ Big update: your own Estate, Texas Hold'em Poker for everyone, and a pile of fixes

Hey Bellocco players,

This one is big. A lot of you asked for a place to put your money that actually means something, a poker room to show off in, and a bunch of bugs squashed. All three are live right now. Grab a coffee, this is the full rundown.

🏰 NEW: The Estate (My empire → Estate)
Every player can now own one estate and build it up through ten tiers: from a humble Hideout (€500,000) all the way to The Empire (€30 billion). You never trade in or move; you keep building on the same estate, tier by tier.

Every tier unlocks new rooms, and every room has a real effect in the game:
• Gym: +2% training gains per level
• Security: +2% defence against muggings in the Fight Cage per level, and it unlocks guards (+3% each)
• Medical wing: 5% hospital discount per level, plus doctors on your payroll (+15% each)
• Office: 5% shorter jail sentences per level, plus a lawyer (+25%)
• Panic room: +2% chance per level to dodge a murder attempt
• Crime room: 1% shorter cooldown between crimes per level
• Hangar: 5% faster flights per level, plus a pilot (+20%)
• Vault: store up to €100 billion that nobody can ever mug
• Game room: your own private poker table in the lobby
• Garage showcase, Trophy hall, Executive suite, Throne room, Empire hall: pure status, shown on your profile

Rooms have five levels each. Level 1 comes free with the tier; higher levels cost more and hit harder.

Happiness is the engine. Your estate has a happiness maximum that grows with every tier, room and staff member, and it refills in 12 hours. The higher your happiness, the more every training session yields (gains are multiplied by 1 + happiness/2000). A full vault adds extra happiness on top, so parking money in your vault is now a real strategy: no interest like the bank, but faster training, automatic upkeep and zero risk of being robbed.

Staff work for you: maids and butlers for happiness, guards, doctors, a lawyer and a pilot to boost your rooms. Wages and upkeep are paid automatically every day from your cash, then from your vault. If you cannot pay, nothing is taken away from you: your effects simply pause until you settle up. No debt, ever.

Status for the top. From tier 7 you get a title next to your name (Landlord, Magnate, Emperor, The Empire) and tier 10 comes with a golden badge and +3% power and defence. A new Richest estates ranking shows who invested the most, and your profile shows your estate, your trophy hall and your garage showcase.

And yes: you will see your estate perks right on the pages where they apply. Training, hospital, airport, Fight Cage, jail, murder and crimes now show a small chip telling you exactly what your estate gives you.

Huge thanks to NEMESIS for the Empire Mansion concept that inspired this, and to everyone who voted for property in the suggestions channel.

♠️ Texas Hold'em Poker is now open to everyone (Casino → Texas Hold'em Poker)
Real poker against real players, fully server-side and fair: the house never plays and no money is created, you only win from other players.
• House tables in five levels, each as a normal and a turbo table: from micro stakes (€100/€200 blinds, €4,000 buy-in) up to €50,000/€100,000 blinds. Buy-in is always 20 to 200 big blinds.
• A tournament every hour: Open, Turbo, Deepstack, Hyper, Six-max and High Roller rotate around the clock. Register, play down to the podium, collect the prize pool.
• Private tables are now exclusive to the Estate Game room (tier 5): your table carries your estate's name, and your Game room level decides how high the blinds can go, up to €1 million / €2 million.
• A proper lobby with live seat counts, a podium screen when a tournament ends, your personal stats, and no more visible refreshes while you play.

🔧 Fixes and improvements
• Profile on mobile: your own banner, avatar and badges were invisible on phones (while other people's profiles looked fine). Fixed, including the badge row that stacked over the banner.
• The Pit: the Sunday tournament got stuck last weekend because a deleted account was still in the bracket. Season 6 has been completed and rewarded, season 7 is running, and the Pit can never get stuck on this again.
• Payments in the app: if Google Play refuses to open the payment sheet on your device, the checkout now offers a "Pay via the browser" button that opens a normal Chrome tab with card, iDEAL and Google Pay.
• Notifications: the little event alerts bottom right have a brand new look, with a progress bar, a maximum of three at a time and automatic cleanup. Push notifications no longer pile up while you are away: they are grouped per type, expire quickly, and are cleared the moment you open the game.
• Poker tables rebalanced so the stakes match everyone's wallet, from brand new players to the big spenders.
• Behind the scenes: dozens of small fixes from a full code audit (every page, every query, all eight languages), plus automatic alarms so a stuck system gets noticed within minutes instead of days.

📖 Wiki
Two new guides are up: Estate and Texas Hold'em Poker, and the bank, training, hospital, airport, jail, murder and attack pages now explain the estate bonuses.

Go build something. Your empire starts with a Hideout.

See you at the tables,
The BELLOCCO team