Free poker online in the USA — play with friends

The Temple of Fortune deals No-Limit Hold’em at tables for five or nine: blinds of 50/100, 500/1,000 or 5,000/10,000 debens, buy-ins from 10 to 200 big blinds, 15 seconds a move. Empty seats go to computer players with an “AI” tag on their nameplate, so you always know who is who.

If your Friday game has scattered across the country, put it back together online. A saved character opens a private table, and friends join with a six-character code or a link, with AI players or without. How the poker tables work.

The Hall of Seshat plays the bingo Americans know from church basements and veterans’ halls: 75 balls, a 5×5 card, B-I-N-G-O across the top and a free space in the middle. There are two prizes — the first line in any direction, and the full card, known in American halls as a blackout or coverall. The line takes 30% of the pot, the full card 70%.

In an auto hall the numbers mark themselves. In a manual hall you daub them yourself and hit “BINGO!” first. Bingo rules and halls.

Plenty of blackjack tables on the Las Vegas Strip now pay 6 to 5 for a natural. In the Hall of Thoth it is 3 to 2, from a six-deck shoe, with the dealer standing on soft 17 and checking for blackjack before you act. You can double after a split and split up to four hands. Blackjack rules.

The roulette wheel has a single zero instead of the 0 and 00 of most American casinos, which cuts the house edge from 5.26% to 2.70%. It spins about every half minute for the whole table. Roulette on the single-zero wheel.

Three machines in three styles. Sevens of Ra is an old-school three-reel slot with bars and sevens. Book of Thoth gives ten free spins with an expanding symbol. Treasures of Horus is a Hold & Win game with MINI, MINOR, MAJOR and GRAND jackpots. Each returns about 95% over the long run. The three machines.

The ten American players with the most experience this week. Experience comes from every game in the city and daily visits, while chat and emotes are capped each day, so the list reflects time at the tables. Players who hide their country are counted but not named.

The ten largest states have pages of their own, each with a section on its own law: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan.

Below are the cities American players have chosen. Your games count for the city in your profile, and you can change it whenever you move.

1. Open the game on this site. It starts as a guest in the browser — no sign-up, no app store.
2. Pick a character, walk across the square and sit down at any table; you start with 100,000 debens.
3. In your profile, choose My city and find your town, so your games count for your state and city.

There is no single US gambling law. The federal Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act deals with payments for online bets; it defines a bet as staking or risking something of value on an outcome and leaves out points or credits a game hands out free of charge. Each state writes its own rules, and most come down to three elements: something of value paid in, chance, and a prize.

Anubis City has neither the stake nor the prize. Nobody pays to play, and debens and ankhs can’t be bought, redeemed, sold or exchanged. The new state bans on sweepstakes casinos target coins that turn into cash prizes, and we have no such coin. In Washington, a 2018 federal appeals court treated purchasable virtual chips as a “thing of value”, and the state Gambling Commission watches virtual casinos closely; Anubis City sells no chips at all. The game is for adults 18 and over. We are not lawyers, so read this as our view, not legal advice.