Free poker online in Australia — and free pokies

An evening in Sydney is morning in Europe and the small hours in the Americas, so Australian tables mix time zones. When a table is short of people, computer players marked “AI” take the empty seats, and their tag stays on the nameplate so you always know who you are up against.

The game is No-Limit Hold’em for five or nine players, blinds from 50/100 to 5,000/10,000 debens, 15 seconds a move. Playing with mates? A saved character can open a private table and send the code or a link, with or without AI players. Poker in the Temple of Fortune.

Club bingo in Australia is often the 90-ball game (how the two differ). The Hall of Seshat plays 75-ball: a 5×5 card, a free space in the middle, a prize for the first line in any direction and a bigger one for the full card. Pick an auto hall to chat while the numbers mark themselves, or a manual one to dab them yourself and hit “BINGO!” first. How our bingo works.

Blackjack in the Hall of Thoth is dealt from six decks, pays 3 to 2 and the dealer stands on soft 17. You can double on any two cards, split up to four hands and take insurance against an ace. Blackjack rules.

Roulette in the Rotunda of Shai is the single-zero wheel. Bets are open for 20 seconds, then the wheel spins for the whole table at once — up to 40 players watching the same ball. Roulette bets and payouts.

Sevens of Ra is a three-reel classic with bars, sevens and a wild Sun of Ra. Book of Thoth is the Egyptian book-and-free-spins kind: three books start ten free spins with a symbol that fills whole reels. Treasures of Horus is Hold & Win — golden scarabs lock in, respins reset, and filling all 15 cells pays the GRAND jackpot.

Each machine returns about 95% of bets over a long run and takes 100 to 50,000 debens a spin. A losing streak costs you only debens, and Ra’s Boat brings more. The three pokies.

Ten Australians with the most experience this week, under their game names. Experience comes from every game in the city — AI opponents count the same as people — plus daily visits and Ra’s Boat. Players who keep their country hidden are counted in the numbers but never named.

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin — a city shows up here once a player picks it. The list covers places with about 15,000 people or more; if your town is smaller, choose the nearest city or just Australia.

1. Open the game on this site. It starts in the browser as a guest — no app, no account needed.
2. Walk across the square to any building and sit down; you begin with 100,000 debens.
3. Open your profile, choose My city and find your city, so your games count for Australia.

The main federal law is the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. It deals with “gambling services”, and a game counts as one when it is played for money or anything else of value, depends on chance, and the player pays to take part. Online casino games and pokies of that kind can’t be offered to people in Australia, and the ACMA blocks sites that try.

Anubis City has no stake and no prize: nothing to buy, and debens and ankhs can’t be cashed out, sold or exchanged. Separately, since 22 September 2024 the classification guidelines rate games with simulated gambling R 18+; Anubis City has been 18+ from the start. This is our reading of the law, not legal advice — we are not lawyers.