Free poker in Lagos — online, on your phone

Free poker in Lagos, without a betting app: Anubis City is a browser game where real people play Texas Hold’em, blackjack, 75-ball bingo, roulette and slots for debens — coins the game gives you and never pays out. You can’t fund an account, because there is nothing to fund; you open the game on your phone and sit down.

Lagos runs on traffic, and plenty of Lagosians spend hours a day in a danfo, on a BRT bus or on the Blue Line. If you are a passenger, a few hands of Hold’em fit neatly into the go-slow: each move has 15 seconds, and if your stop comes up, press “Step away” and the table carries on without you. The Lagos State Lotteries and Gaming Authority licenses games with stakes or prizes, and Anubis City has neither. More on the law: Nigeria in Anubis City.

Lagos keeps West Africa Time, UTC+1 — the same clock as London from late March to late October, an hour ahead in winter — so a Saturday game with family in the UK needs no maths for half the year. One saved character opens a private table and sends the link. In the City of the Week race, Lagos counts the experience of its ten best players over seven days. Ikeja, Lekki and Agege appear in the city search as places of their own, so if you want your games to count for Lagos, pick Lagos.