Free poker in Saint Petersburg, Russia — online, no money

No-Limit Texas Hold’em in the Temple of Fortune: the Scribes’ Table at 50 / 100 blinds, the Priests’ Table at 500 / 1,000 and the Pharaoh’s Table at 5,000 / 10,000. Tables have 5 or 9 seats and 15 seconds per move, so hands go noticeably faster than at a live table where chips are counted by hand.

Every hand can be replayed from the table’s hand history: who bet what on the preflop, flop, turn and river, and what was shown at showdown. It is a handy way to go over tricky spots — yours and other people’s. How the tables work: Texas Hold’em in Anubis City; which hand beats which: the hand rankings; everything else: the school of games.

The deck is shuffled on the server with a cryptographically secure random generator, your hole cards are sent to your screen only, and computer opponents always carry an “AI” mark. Below: hands played by Petersburgers this week, the biggest pot and the best hand.

75-ball bingo in the Hall of Seshat, with one to four cards per game. The Line takes 30% of the pot and the Full Card 70%. A game starts 20 seconds after the first card is bought, and you can buy cards for the next game while the current one is running. AUTO and MANUAL halls, rules and prizes: bingo.

Poker is a game of decisions; in the Rotunda of Shai you can simply back a number. European roulette: 37 pockets, a single zero, and a straight-up bet pays 35 to 1. The wheel spins on the table’s schedule and is shared by everyone sitting there — which is how Saint Petersburg gets a favourite number of its own. More: roulette.

The Hall of Thoth deals blackjack from six decks: the dealer draws to 16 and stands on all 17s, and blackjack pays 3 to 2. How many blackjacks the city’s players hit this week is in the numbers below.

The ranking counts experience earned this week while a player had Saint Petersburg as their home city. Move to another city in your profile and new points go there, while what you already earned stays with Saint Petersburg — nothing is moved backwards.

The ten best results of the week also make up Saint Petersburg’s score in the City of the Week race. To beat Moscow the city does not need more players in the game — it needs its top ten to earn more experience.

1. Start the game in a browser. You can start straight away as a guest with no sign-up; your character is kept in that browser.
2. Open your profile, choose My city and find Saint Petersburg by name.
3. To play from different devices, save your character with an email and a password — the city gives you 500,000 debens for it.

Friends from the city can join you at a private table by code or link; see play with friends. You need to be 18 or older to play.