Online PokerHow to play

Online Poker

Texas Hold’em & Omaha

Four aces
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How to play

Create an account or log in. Enter your username on this page and click Continue. On the next page, enter your password and click Enter. If the username is new, this creates your account. No email confirmation is required.

  1. Create a new Table. After logging in, click or The table name is generated automatically and appears below your username at the top of the page.
  2. Invite up to 9 players. In Players, enter a friend’s username and click Invite. They need to create an account first. Invitations are available between hands, when the cards are cleared.
  3. Start the table. Once everyone has joined, open Table controls and click This brings everyone into play and resets funds to zero. The cards must be cleared, and all but the player starting the table must be watching.
  1. Tell the host of a table your username, so they can invite you.
  2. After logging in, accept the invite. When an invitation is sent, you will see a blue banner on your user page with the username of the person inviting you and the name of the table. Click .
    User peter is inviting you to join the "red jay on the cedar tree" table.
  • Community cards: Clear, Deal, and Undo last card are above the Flop, Turn, and River.
  • Your hand: Betting chips sit beside or below your cards. Call, All In, Fold, Remove bet, and Show Hand are directly below the table.
  • Pot & bets: Push Bets moves outstanding bets into the pot.
  • Manage chips: Open this compartment at the bottom of Pot & bets with + to find Claim, Set, and Add. Click × to close it.
  • Players: Find Rotate, Invite, Watch, (Re)enter, and the bounty controls here.
  • Table controls: Expand this panel for (Re) start, Leave Table, and Close Table.

On phones, Pot & bets and Players appear below the table. Buttons become available when the game state allows the action.

  1. Add funds. Open Manage chips at the bottom of Pot & bets with +. Enter an amount in add funds, then click Add or press Enter.
  2. Assign player roles. In Players, click to assign the button (dealer), little blind and big blind.
  3. Place your bet. Click chips under Add to your bet. Call matches the highest bet this round, All In bets your remaining funds, and Remove bet returns your current bet before it is pushed into the pot. Click Fold to sit out the rest of the hand.
  4. Push bets. In Pot & bets, click to move outstanding bets into the pot. Dealing or revealing the next group of community cards also moves outstanding bets into the pot.
  5. Deal cards. Above Community cards, click Your hand shows two private cards in Texas Hold’em or four in Omaha. The Flop, Turn, and River start face down.
  6. Reveal the community cards in order. Click a face-down Flop card to reveal the three-card Flop, then click Turn and River after each round of betting. Try the demo below after clicking Deal. Demo card
  7. Undo an accidental reveal. Above Community cards, click This hides and redraws the most recently revealed group: the Flop, Turn, or River. Click that group again when you are ready to reveal it. It does not reverse bets already moved into the pot.
  8. Reveal your hand after the final betting round. Click to make your cards visible to everyone and open All Player Cards. That panel shows the hands other players have chosen to reveal.
  9. Set your own side pot amount. When you are all in, open Manage chips, enter an amount in set side pot, then click Set or press Enter.
  10. Claim winnings from the pot. Push any remaining bets first. Open Manage chips, enter your share in claim from pot, then click Claim or press Enter.
  11. Clear cards after the pot is empty. Above Community cards, click
  12. Rotate the dealer button and blinds. In Players, click
  13. Watch or rejoin between hands. After the cards are cleared, click Watch in Players to observe, or (Re)enter to join the next hand. Players who are watching are skipped when the dealer button and blinds rotate.
  14. Deal the next hand.
  15. Claim a bounty chip when you knock a player out of the tournament. Use + beside Bounty in Players to add a bounty chip, or − to remove one.
  16. Restart the table. Open Table controls and click to reset funds, bets, bounty chips, roles, and player order. The cards must be cleared and all but one player must be watching.
  17. Leave the table. In Table controls, click when the cards are cleared, you are watching, and you have no dealer or blind role. If you still have a role, ask a playing user to click Rotate first.
  18. Close the table. In Table controls, click to end the table for everyone. The cards must be cleared, and only the player closing the table may still be playing; everyone else must be watching.

About the game

Create a Texas Hold’em or Omaha table and invite your friends. No money is sent through this site.

Keep a voice or video call open while you play together.

Have a suggestion or found a bug? Get in touch at PeterEFrancis.com.