Free poker online in Hamburg, day or night

You can play free poker online in Hamburg at any hour in Anubis City, a browser game set in a pixel-art Egyptian city. Texas Hold’em runs at tables for five or nine, with real people and free debens instead of euros. Nothing is for sale, nothing is cashed out, and the same city has bingo, roulette, blackjack and slots for the nights you don’t feel like poker.

Hamburg runs around the clock — the container terminals don’t sleep, and neither do the people who work there in shifts. The tables suit that. A hand never waits for a full set of humans: computer players marked “AI” take the empty seats, you get 15 seconds a move, and if your phone loses signal on the S-Bahn your seat is held for 30 seconds. Stand up whenever you like; the chips you leave with go back into your purse.

Hamburg has its own line in the City of the Week race, scored by the experience of the city’s ten best players over the week. It is a quiet rivalry with Berlin and with Bremen along the coast, and you join it by choosing Hamburg under My city in your profile. The game has no German version yet; it speaks English, Russian and Ukrainian.