Play poker with friends online, free, never for money

Cardamoo runs on iPhone, Android and any web browser. Friends join with one link or a room code. Nobody needs an account or a download to sit down. Up to six players at a table. Texas Hold'em. There is no voice chat built in, so use the call you already have. Chips can never be bought, by anyone, so nothing pushes you to pay. It is never played for real money.

Host a private table, send the link to the group chat, and everyone sits down from wherever they are: phone, tablet or laptop. Same room? Poker Night puts the table on the TV.

Three ways to get your friends at a table

How friends join

Send one link

Every private table has an invite link. A friend taps it, lands at the table in their phone's browser as a guest, picks a name and sits down. Nothing to install and no account to make.

Share the room code

Every table also has a six-letter room code. Say it out loud or paste it in the chat, and a friend types it into the Join screen in the app or at play.cardamoo.com.

Bring your party into Quick Play

Form a party with your friends and queue together. You all land at the same table, and matchmaking fills any empty seats, with computer players if nobody else is waiting.

Your table, your rules

Cardamoo works as a free home poker app, so the game is yours to set up: blinds, buy-in, and who gets a seat. Friends who don't have the app join from their phone's browser as guests. The host needs a free account, which takes one tap with Google or Apple.

Short on players? Add bots

You don't need a full table to play. Computer players can fill the empty seats at a private table, and AI Arena gives you a table of bots with their own styles to practise against. Share the room code and your friends can sit in with you. It's all free, and chips won or lost against bots are the same virtual chips as everywhere else.

Keep the game going after the night ends

Add each other as friends and you will see when they are online and at which table, watch a friend's seat live while they play, and get a nudge when someone saves you a seat. Chips are one persistent bankroll, so the rivalry carries over week to week.

You can never buy chips

Nobody can buy chips in Cardamoo, at any price, so nothing pushes you to pay. It is never played for real money: chips cannot be traded between players and cannot be cashed out. When someone busts they reload with bonus chips from playing, not from a card. Nobody's wallet decides the night; the cards and the bluffs do. Why we built it this way →

Works everywhere your friends are

Free on iPhone, Android and in any modern browser, all at the same table.

Hosting in person? Here is how to host a poker night. New to poker? Start with the learn guides. Comparing options? Cardamoo vs Poker Now, vs EasyPoker or vs Air Poker.

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