Free poker in Sydney, online and open tonight

Free poker in Sydney usually means a pub league night or a freeroll that starts at a fixed time. Anubis City is the online version that starts when you do: Texas Hold’em with real people in your browser, no buy-in, no money, and a seat within a minute of opening the game. Pokies, bingo, blackjack and roulette are a short walk across the same pixel-art square.

Getting across Sydney for a card game can take longer than the game itself, and a phone does the job on the train home. The game runs in the phone’s browser with 15 seconds a move, and if a tunnel drops your connection, it holds your seat for 30 seconds and checks or folds for you in the meantime.

The hour you play changes who you meet. At 8 pm in Sydney it is morning or midday in Europe, and evening tables lean on AI players, marked “AI” on their nameplates. Our busiest hours, the European evening, fall on your early morning: roughly 5 to 9 am during the Sydney summer, 3 to 7 am in winter. For a full table at a time that suits your crowd, open a private table and send the link around — and every hand you play counts towards Sydney’s score in the weekly City of the Week race.