A London poker night, online and free

For a poker night in London you no longer need a back room, a pub booking or a friend with a big kitchen table. Anubis City deals free Texas Hold’em online, in the browser: open a private table, send the link, and your friends sit down with free debens. No money goes in, none comes out, and there is nothing to install.

London is full of people who grew up speaking Russian or Ukrainian, and the game speaks both, as well as English. Each player picks a language for themselves, so a flatmate from Kharkiv, a colleague from Riga and a friend from Hackney can share one table and read every button in their own. Family abroad can join too: Kyiv is two hours ahead, so a game you start at seven is at nine there — early enough for parents, late enough for the children to be in bed.

Set My city in your profile to London itself. Croydon and Wembley appear in the list as places of their own, and games played under them count for them, not for the capital. London’s score in the City of the Week race is the experience its ten best players earn over seven days — the same rule as for Birmingham or Glasgow, so a city of this size gets no head start.