Play Poker with Friends Online

How to play poker with friends here

Create a private table, copy the link, and send it to whoever you want to play with. They open the link and sit down — there is no download, no app, and no account to create. The table stays yours: it is not listed in the lobby, so only people with the link can find it.

If you would rather play with whoever is around, take a seat at one of the open tables. Anyone browsing the site can join you, and the hand starts as soon as two players are seated.

Who you are playing against

Everyone who joins these tables is a real person, with one exception worth stating plainly: every table keeps a single AI host seated, so that whoever arrives first has someone to play rather than an empty table. It is exactly one seat per table and never more, and the host gives that seat up as soon as the table fills with people.

We would rather say this than let you wonder. A table that quietly seats a crowd of robots and calls it "online play" is not what anyone means by playing poker with friends, and that is not what happens here.

If you would rather skip the wait entirely, the single-player Texas Hold'em tables are one click away and deal instantly. When a real player sits down at your table, we let you know.

The rules at these tables

No-Limit Texas Hold'em, nine seats, blinds of 10/20, and 1,000 chips when you sit down — fifty big blinds, the same depth as the single-player tables, so the game feels the same whichever side you are on. You have twelve seconds to act. Two players are enough to start a hand.

If you time out or lose connection, your seat is not given away immediately: you are marked as sitting out, your chair is held, and one tap on "I'm back" deals you in again.

The chips

Chips here are practice chips. They have no cash value, they cannot be bought, sold, transferred, or cashed out, and there is no real-money gambling anywhere on this site. If you lose your stack, you are topped up automatically so you can keep playing — nobody gets stuck at an empty table with nothing to bet.

Questions

Do I need an account to play poker with friends? No. There is no sign-up on this site. Your name is a guest name you can change on this page, and your friends do not need accounts either — they just open your link.

Is it really free? Yes. No download, no registration, no real money. The chips are play-money.

How many people can play at one table? Nine. A hand starts once two players are seated, so you do not need a full table to play.

Can I play on my phone? Yes. The tables run in a mobile browser — the same link works on a phone, tablet, or computer.