Poker
House

Free Texas Hold’em in a Wild West saloon

Poker House is a free online Texas Hold’em game for Android, iOS and the web browser. You sit down at a four-seat table inside a lantern-lit 1890s saloon, get two private cards, and play against real people in real time. Every table runs the standard no-limit Hold’em rules used in card rooms around the world, so what you learn here carries over to any home game or casino table.

Play uses virtual chips only. Chips and gems have no cash value, cannot be cashed out, and nothing in the game can be won or lost for real money. It is a social card game for adults who enjoy poker as a game of skill, reading people, and good timing.

How a hand of Hold’em works

1. The blinds. Two players post forced bets, the small blind and the big blind, so every hand starts with something to win. The dealer button moves one seat clockwise each hand.
2. Pre-flop. Everyone receives two hole cards face down. Starting left of the big blind, each player can fold, call or raise.
3. The flop, turn and river. Five community cards are dealt face up: three on the flop, then one on the turn and one on the river. A betting round follows each street.
4. The showdown. Players who are still in show their cards. The best five-card hand, built from any mix of your two cards and the five on the board, wins the pot. If everyone else folds earlier, the last player standing takes it without showing.

The hand ranking from strongest to weakest is royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair and high card. When two players hold the same hand, the kicker (the highest unused card) breaks the tie, and an exact tie splits the pot.

What you will find at the Poker House

• Live multiplayer tables. Short-handed, four-player tables at several stake levels keep the action fast, so you play more hands and wait less.
• A cinematic 3D table. Characters sit, react, and show their cards around a hand-built saloon table instead of a flat green screen.
• Daily rewards. Daily gifts, the Lucky Wheel and quests top up your chip stack for free, so you never have to spend to keep playing.
• Progression. The Poker Pass and quests reward steady play with new goals each season.
• Friends and voice. Add friends, sit at the same table, and talk with push-to-talk voice chat.
• Play anywhere. The same account works on Android, iOS and in the browser at playpokerhouse.com/Playnow.

Fair play and responsible gaming

Cards are shuffled on our servers, never on your device, and every pot and chip movement is recorded server-side. Collusion, multi-accounting and bots are against our fair play rules. Poker House is intended for players aged 21 and over. If you want to take a break, our responsible gaming page explains the tools and where to get support.

Learn the game: free poker guides

New to Hold’em, or want to stop leaking chips? Our poker blog has plain-English guides written for beginners and improving players. Good places to start:

• Texas Hold’em rules: how to play
• Poker hand rankings, best to worst
• The best starting hands
• Why position matters
• Pot odds, explained simply
• When (and how) to bluff
• Common beginner mistakes
• What tilt is and how to beat it

Questions about your account or the game? Visit the help center, read the FAQ, or meet the characters behind the table in the story.