Poker without money in Ufa — free, online, with real people

The Temple of Fortune runs No-Limit Texas Hold’em at 5- and 9-seat tables. The Scribes’ Table is a good place to begin: blinds of 50 / 100 and a maximum buy-in of 20,000, so the starting purse of 100,000 debens covers five full buy-ins. Once you are comfortable, move up to the Priests’ Table (500 / 1,000) and the Pharaoh’s Table (5,000 / 10,000). No character level is needed: every table is open from your first visit.

If your connection drops mid-hand, your seat is held for 30 seconds so you can come back and finish. Need a break? Press “Step away”. How the tables work: poker in Anubis City; rules and hands: the school of games.

Below: hands played by Ufa players this week, the biggest pot and the best hand at showdown.

For a quiet evening there is 75-ball bingo in the Hall of Seshat. Buy one to four cards: your set of numbers stays with you from game to game until you press “Other numbers”. In AUTO halls the numbers close themselves; in MANUAL halls you mark them — and earn one and a half times the experience for Ufa. Rules and prizes: bingo.

In the Rotunda of Shai the European roulette wheel runs on a schedule: bet in time and you play, miss it and you wait for the next round, about half a minute. Ufa’s favourite number is in the figures below. Bets and payouts: roulette.

The Hall of Thoth deals blackjack: six decks, blackjack pays 3 to 2, and you can double, split pairs and take insurance. Bets are open for 15 seconds, and a round takes between half a minute and a minute.

Here are the ten Ufa residents who earned the most experience this week. Experience counts for the city in your profile at the moment you play, so switching cities later does not take what you earned with you.

The same ten results make up Ufa’s score in the City of the Week race, against Moscow, Saint Petersburg and every other city in the game. Population does not decide it: the city whose top ten earns the most experience wins.

1. Open the game and create a character — as a guest it takes a minute.
2. In your profile choose My city: country Russia, city Ufa.
3. If you like, show your city in your profile and a flag by your name — that way people from Ufa will recognise you on the square.

The easiest way to bring a friend from Ufa is a table of your own: on the “Own table” tab in the Temple of Fortune hall, create a private table and send the link — more in play with friends. Players must be adults, 18+.