Pointing poker is planning poker. So are poker planning, sprint poker, estimation poker, agile poker and scrum poker. One ceremony, six labels, and the mechanism underneath is identical every time: everyone picks a card privately, all the cards turn over at once, and the team talks about the gap.
Which name you use mostly says where you learned it rather than what you do. James Grenning described the technique in 2002, and Mike Cohn's Agile Estimating and Planning put the name "planning poker" in front of most of the industry three years later. "Scrum poker" attaches it to the framework teams usually run it inside. "Pointing poker" and "story point poker" name the unit instead of the ceremony. "Poker planning" is the same two words the other way round. "Sprint poker" names the meeting it happens in. None is more correct than the others, and no tool behaves differently depending on which one you typed into Google.
What every version shares is the simultaneous reveal, and that is the part doing the work. When people call out numbers in turn, the first number spoken becomes an anchor and everyone after it drifts toward it — so the estimate ends up measuring seniority rather than complexity. Turning all the cards over at the same moment removes the anchor. That is the whole trick, and it is why a ceremony that looks slightly silly on paper has outlasted most of the estimation techniques that replaced it.
Pointing poker is a consensus estimation technique where every team member privately picks a card representing the size of a piece of work, and everyone reveals at the same time. It is the same thing as planning poker — the name just refers to the story point rather than to the planning meeting.
Yes. Pointing poker, planning poker, poker planning, scrum poker, sprint poker, estimation poker and agile poker all describe one ceremony: private sizing, simultaneous reveal, discussion where the cards disagree. Any tool built for one works for all of them, including this one.
Poker planning is planning poker with the two words swapped, and it means exactly the same thing. The order varies by team and by region rather than by method — there is no difference in how the session is run.
Sprint poker is planning poker named after the meeting it usually happens in. Teams run it during sprint planning or backlog refinement to size the items they are considering pulling into the next sprint.
Yes, this one. Every feature is free for every team: up to 20 people per room, unlimited rounds, unlimited stories, all three card decks, the timer, facilitator analytics and CSV export. No account is needed to run or join a room, and there are no ads.
Because of the cards and the simultaneous reveal, not because anyone is betting. Each player holds a hand of numbered cards, plays one face down, and the whole table turns over together. Nothing is wagered and there is no winner.