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Your venue stays pending until a platform admin approves it. Approval is always a human decision — there is no auto-activation setting anywhere in Ace Up.

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What activation does

The moment your venue is activated:
  1. Your venue is marked active.
  2. Its default tables are created — a Lounge and a High Roller table, per asset.
  3. Your bot is connected: Telegram is pointed at Ace Up with a secret unique to your bot, the command list is installed, and the ♠ Play menu button appears.
  4. Your bot’s short description and profile text are filled in with your venue’s name.
  5. You get a DM with your setup checklist.

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Your setup checklist

One thing is left for you, because only you can do it: running /newapp in BotFather so your group gets a direct link.
1

Open BotFather and send /newapp

Choose your bot.
2

Give it the URL from your checklist message

Ace Up sends you the exact URL. Paste it.
3

Set the short name to play

This is what makes t.me/YourBot/play work.
The checklist stays on screen until this is done. It is the one manual step in the whole setup and everything else is already finished when you get there.

Launch in your group

Posting the link, and what your members see.

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If you are rejected

You are told. A rejection is not silent, and it does not consume your bot token — you keep the bot and can use it for anything else.

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Why it is reviewed

Ace Up funds the bankroll at every venue. A venue that goes live is a venue whose losses Ace Up carries, so someone looks at it first. It also means a venue cannot be created against a group by someone who does not run that group.

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Timing

Usually within a couple of hours.