Free online poker in Armenia

No-Limit Texas Hold’em at five- and nine-seat tables in the Temple of Fortune, on three levels: the Scribes’ Table (50/100), the Priests’ Table (500/1,000) and the Pharaoh’s Table (5,000/10,000). Buy in for 10 to 200 big blinds — short and aggressive or deep and patient.

Chess players should start with the hand rankings and a couple of evenings at the Scribes’ Table, where mistakes are cheap. The deck is shuffled on the server with a cryptographically secure generator, and nobody sees other players’ cards before the showdown. More about our tables.

75-ball bingo in the Hall of Seshat is the easiest game in town: buy a card and follow the balls. AUTO halls mark the numbers for you; in MANUAL halls you mark them, and the first to press “BINGO!” wins. If several cards win on the same ball, the prize is split equally. Bingo rules.

In blackjack calculation pays most: basic strategy is a chart that tells you, for every hand, whether to hit, stand, double or split, and the “AI” players in the Hall of Thoth follow it. The shoe holds six decks, the dealer stands on soft 17, and blackjack pays 3 to 2.

European roulette in the Rotunda of Shai is the opposite — pure chance: 37 pockets, one zero, a shared wheel and a round every half minute or so. Below: the favourite roulette number of players from Armenia and this week’s blackjacks.

The Treasury of Ra has three machines, each with its own return and volatility: Sevens of Ra (95.36%, low), Book of Thoth (95.21%, high) and Treasures of Horus (95.12%, medium). Bets run from 100 to 50,000 debens a spin. More about the slots.

Experience earned this week from hands, daily visits, Ra’s Boat, chat and emotes counts for whichever country and city your profile showed when you played. Experience also lifts your rank: there are 50, from Commoner to Chosen of Ra.

Find your city by name in English, Russian or Ukrainian, or choose “Country only”. Below are the cities in Armenia that already have players.

1. Open the game in your browser and enter as a guest — no sign-up needed.
2. In your profile choose My city, pick Armenia and find your city.
3. Save your character with an email and a password: you get 500,000 debens and can open your own table for friends in the Temple of Fortune.

We are not lawyers, so we will not overstate this. In Armenia gambling, online gambling included, may be run only under licence: the Ministry of Finance issues separate licences for organising gambling games and casinos and for organising internet gambling games.

The idea behind such rules is the same everywhere: gambling means a stake paid in money, chance, and a prize worth something. A licence is needed by whoever takes those stakes and pays out those prizes.

Anubis City has none of that. Debens come from the game, cannot be bought for drams and cannot be exchanged for drams, goods or prizes. As we understand it, that makes Anubis City a social game, not gambling. It is meant for players aged 18 and up.