Not always. If a table allows guests, you can pick a name and join right away. A guest is a real player at the table, but with no email or password, so you can't sign back in later or take that name to another device.
Sign up for a free account if you want to host your own tables, keep your name, or come back to a game later.
A Quick Game spins up a table instantly with sensible defaults: guests allowed, 25/50 blinds, a 5000 stack, and chips shown as plain points rather than dollars. Just share the link and play.
Single Player is solo practice against the house bots. It doesn't show up in "Your Tables" and it's cleaned up automatically once you leave, so use it to try things out without committing to anything.
Creating a new table gives you full control: blind sizes, starting stack, whether guests can join, the card back, an optional password, standard or cards-only play.
Share the table's link, have them scan the QR code in the corner of the table, or read them the room code from the address bar. Any of the three drops them straight onto that table.
It puts you in a 6-player Sit and Go with other real players. The game starts the moment the table fills, and plays until one player holds every chip. The blinds go up on a clock as it runs, so stacks stay in play and it doesn't drag on forever.
Yes. A two-player game is called heads-up, and it plays a little differently from a full table: the dealer posts the small blind and acts first before the flop, then acts last on every betting round after that.
RbPkr's public matchmaking has a dedicated "Find Heads-up" queue for exactly this, or you can seat just the two of you at a private table instead.
Texas Hold'em is the most popular variant of poker, but it's not the only one. Omaha, seven-card stud, and razz are all poker too, just with different rules for what cards you get and how you build a hand.
When people say "poker" without specifying, they usually mean Texas Hold'em, and it's the only variant RbPkr deals.
New to the game? The Texas Hold'em rules walk through a hand from the blinds to the showdown, and the poker hand rankings show every hand from best to worst.
Hosting a home game? See the full poker guides for tournament structure, chip setup, house rules, and more, use the free tournament clock to run your blinds, and the chip calculator to work out chip values and starting stacks from the chips you own.
You're automatically sat out when your stack hits zero. You won't be dealt another hand until you get more chips.
Use "Request Chips" to let the table owner know you need a rebuy.
In heads-up play, the table pauses as soon as either player reaches zero. The next hand can't start until the owner sends more chips.
The owner can rebuy players using "Send Chips", whether or not they've actually asked. The slider covers 1 to 200 big blinds, but the amount field can be used to enter any amount outside that range as well.
Drag your hole cards down to peek at them (at your own risk of someone catching a glimpse), and let go to hide them again.
On your turn, drag your cards up to fold. There's also a fold button in the action bar.
When the betting is done and more than one player is left, each contender chooses to show their hand or muck it (fold face-down, giving up any claim on the pot). Turn order runs the same way real poker does, starting from the last player to bet or raise.
The table owner can turn mucking off, in which case every remaining hand is revealed and the pot is settled straight away.
Yes. There's a speaker button in the header at any table. It's remembered per browser.
It's a display choice made when the table is created. The chips work exactly the same either way, they're just shown with or without a dollar sign. Quick Games use points; a table you set up yourself defaults to dollars.
No. A table that nobody has touched for 24 hours is deleted automatically, so abandoned games don't pile up. Anything with a hand in progress or players still acting stays put.
If the decision clock runs out on you 3 times in a row in a public (sit-n-go) game, you'll get an email letting you know the blinds are running you over.
5 misses in a row and you're automatically stood up from your seat, freeing it for someone else. Any real action (checking, betting, folding, and so on) resets the count back to zero, so a couple of slow turns here and there is nothing to worry about.
This only applies to public games. In a private table your friends set up, the owner can remove a slow player manually if it becomes a problem.
You can hold one active public (sit-n-go) seat and one active private (ring game or tournament) seat at the same time, plus your own Single Player game, which is tracked separately. Trying to join a second public or a second private game while you're already seated at one is blocked. Leave your current seat first if you want to switch.
Look for the globe and lock icons in the header. They're shortcuts straight back to whichever games you've currently got going.
A standard table plays similar to an online poker game. Blinds post automatically, the cards are dealt by street, and players can check, bet, call, raise, or fold. The best hand at showdown takes the pot. This format allows your friends to join and play remotely.
Think of a cards-only table as a virtual, all-time dealer: it deals the cards and reminds the players who is in the blinds. Players bring their own physical chips if they want to bet, and manage turn order, side pots and showdown handling among themselves. Players will probably all need to be in person to use this setting.
Whomever is indicated as the Dealer for a particular hand will have "Deal" button. The job passes around the table hand to hand rather than sitting with one person all game.
The Dealer controls when each street is dealt. When everyone's ready, they deal the flop, turn, river, and so on. This is designed more like playing with a physical deck than running a normal online poker table.
Yes. You can fold at any point by dragging your cards up.
There's no enforced turn order for folding. Players are responsible for managing the action among themselves. Pay attention not to fold out of turn!
Players have the choice to Showdown or Muck as they do at standard tables. However, they can do so at any time once the Showdown begins.
Simply select the "Cards only" option when creating a new table.
You can't switch an existing table between standard and cards-only play at this time, so create a new table if you want to change modes.
Yes. Until showdown, drag your cards down to look at them, just like you would at a standard table.
An ante is a forced bet that goes into the pot before the cards are dealt, on top of the blinds. With a big blind ante, the player in the big blind posts one ante for the whole table instead of every player posting their own. It moves around the table with the big blind, so everyone pays it once per orbit.
It's the standard in most live tournaments today because it's one payment per hand instead of eight or nine, so nobody has to chase down a missing ante and hands start faster.
Because it replaces everyone's individual antes at once. A classic ante is about 10 to 20 percent of the big blind per player. At 500/1,000 blinds, eight players each posting 125 add 1,000 to the pot, the same as a single 1,000 big blind ante.
So it looks big for one player, but the pot ends up about the same, and it evens out as the big blind moves around the table.
Antes are off by default in the clock. They add dead money before anyone acts, which rewards stealing the blinds and speeds up eliminations. That helps a larger field or a deep-stack tournament keep moving, but it's more pressure than most casual games need.
To use them, open Blind structure on the tournament clock and turn on Use big blind antes. Every preset starts them at level 4, matching the big blind, and you can change any level's ante in the same table.
The big blind is posted first, and whatever is left goes toward the ante. This is the standard tournament ruling, so a short-stacked big blind is never forced to put in a smaller blind just to cover the ante.
Each payout rounds to the nearest $5, so you can pay everyone in fives and twenties. Any difference from the rounding goes to first place, so the payouts always add up to exactly the prize pool. The percentage next to each payout is that place's exact share after rounding.
You can play for a few days while it arrives, so you're not locked out in the meantime. Check your spam folder, and use the "resend confirmation instructions" link on the sign-in page if you still don't see it.
Not directly. A guest session is tied to that one browser and can't be signed into elsewhere. Sign up for a real account whenever you like, but it starts fresh, it won't inherit a guest's history.