Free online poker in Yerevan

Yerevan has a free online poker table in Anubis City: No-Limit Texas Hold’em with real people, in the browser, with no money involved. The chips are debens — the game gives them to you and nobody can buy or withdraw them. There is no Armenian version yet; you can play in English, Russian or Ukrainian, and the same city has bingo, roulette, blackjack and slots.

Armenian families are spread across the world, and a weekly game is one way to keep them close. A private table does it online: a saved character opens one on the “Own table” tab, and a cousin in Moscow or an uncle in Glendale joins by code or link. Yerevan is on UTC+4 all year, one hour ahead of Moscow; Los Angeles is eleven or twelve hours behind, so weekend mornings in California meet Yerevan evenings.

Russian is widely understood in Yerevan, from older locals to students and IT people from abroad, and the game suits them as it is — in Russian or English. Whatever brought you here, choose Yerevan under My city to play for it, or keep your home city if that still feels right. In the City of the Week race a city’s score is the weekly experience of its ten best players; Yerevan shares its clock with Tbilisi and Baku, which makes for an even contest.