Poker in Dublin tonight — free, online

For poker in Dublin tonight you can skip the club and the entry fee. Anubis City is a free online game with Texas Hold’em tables open around the clock, 75-ball bingo next door and nothing to install: it runs in the browser on a laptop or a phone. Chips are debens handed out by the game; they can’t be bought, sold or cashed out.

Dublin has played this game for a long time — the Irish Poker Open began here in 1980 and is often called Europe’s oldest No-Limit Hold’em tournament. A private table is a smaller affair: five or nine seats, the stakes you pick, and a six-character code your friends type in or a link they tap. Dublin has a large Ukrainian-speaking community, and plenty of people from the Baltic states grew up with Russian; the game speaks both languages as well as English, so a mixed table works for everyone.

Set My city to Dublin in your profile. Tallaght, Swords and Dún Laoghaire appear in the list as places of their own, so pick Dublin itself if you want your games on this page. In the City of the Week race the city’s score is the experience of its ten best players over seven days, and Dublin meets London, Belfast and every other city on that single number.