Free poker online in Pretoria

Numbers appear here as soon as players from this place play a few games this week.

Updated: November 11 at 12:37 PM UTC

Free poker online in Pretoria starts in your browser: open Anubis City, enter as a guest and take a seat at a Texas Hold’em table with real people. Everyone plays with debens, free coins the game hands out — there is nothing to buy, nothing to cash in and no rand at stake. Blackjack, roulette, a bingo hall and three slot machines share the same pixel-art Egyptian city.

Pretoria is a city of students and civil servants — the University of Pretoria, Unisa, the government offices around the Union Buildings — and both know the value of a free evening. A private table suits a study group or a team after work: one saved character opens it under “Own table”, picks the stakes and the seats, and shares a link; the others join as guests, on a phone or a laptop. When the jacarandas turn the streets purple in October and November, the pixel city stays sandy gold.

South Africa keeps one time zone all year, so a 9 p.m. game in Pretoria is 7 or 8 p.m. in London and 9 or 10 p.m. in Kyiv, depending on the season. Choose Pretoria under My city to play for it in the City of the Week race, where a city scores the experience of its ten best players over the week. Johannesburg is the obvious rival, and Soshanguve, part of the same metro, is in the race too.

Poker with players from Pretoria

No-Limit Texas Hold’em at tables for five and nine, three stake levels and private tables for friends. The chips are free debens.

Numbers appear here as soon as players from this place play a few games this week.

Bingo online

75-ball bingo in the Hall of Seshat: automatic halls where the game marks your cards, and manual halls for those who like to play by hand.

Numbers appear here as soon as players from this place play a few games this week.

Roulette and blackjack

European roulette with one zero and a shared wheel, and blackjack from a six-deck shoe where the dealer stands on soft 17.

Numbers appear here as soon as players from this place play a few games this week.

Top players of the week

The weekly ranking counts experience earned while a player had Pretoria as their home city.

The weekly top is shown when at least five players from here have chosen to show their place.

How to play for Pretoria

  1. Open the game and play as a guest or create an account.
  2. Open your profile and choose My city.
  3. Find Pretoria by name — from then on your games count for it.

Questions

Can students play for free?

Everyone plays for free, students or not. The game is for adults 18 and over, and nothing in it costs money.

Is it legal to play free poker online in South Africa?

Anubis City pays nothing out and sells nothing, which sets it apart from the online gambling the National Gambling Act restricts. No regulator has ruled on free social games, though, so read our full note on the South Africa page — it is not legal advice.

Can I play in Afrikaans?

Not yet. The game is in English, Russian and Ukrainian, and you can switch in the settings at any time.

Place names: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.

Play from here

Pick your city in the profile — your games will count for it in the weekly rankings.

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