Free online poker in Baku

Poker in Baku can be played online for free in Anubis City: No-Limit Texas Hold’em with real opponents, in the browser, with no money at stake. The chips are debens — the game gives them out, and nobody can buy, sell or withdraw them, so nothing of value changes hands. There is no Azerbaijani version yet; the game is in English, Russian and Ukrainian.

Baku is a bilingual city for many people, and the game lets each player pick their own language. A student at one of the English-taught universities can play in English while a friend from a Russian-language school plays in Russian — at the same table, in the same hand. Bingo, European roulette, blackjack and three slot machines are a walk across the same pixel square.

Baku keeps UTC+4 all year, like Tbilisi and Yerevan, and is one hour ahead of Moscow. Family in Russia can join a private table: a saved character opens it on the “Own table” tab, and the others come in by code or link, even as guests. To play for the capital, choose Baku under My city. In the City of the Week race a city’s score is the weekly experience of its ten best players — which means Sumgait, just up the coast, can take Baku on with ten keen players.