A private poker table, just for your friends

Private by design

There's no lobby full of strangers on Poker Rooms. Every table is private: it exists for the people with its link, and nobody else can find it.

• Only by link. A table isn't listed or searchable anywhere. Share its link in your group chat and that's who knows about it.
• The host lets people in. Everyone joining a new table asks to sit down, and the host says yes, so a forwarded link doesn't bring in a stranger.
• Lock it. Once everyone's there, lock the table so nobody new can ask, and choose whether anyone may watch.
• Remove or mute anyone, if you need to, and let them back later.

Set up in under a minute

1. Start a table and pick the game: No-Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit Hold'em or Pot-Limit Omaha, as a cash game or a tournament.
2. Set the stakes in chips: the blinds and the buy-in, or a tournament structure.
3. Send the link. Friends tap it on a phone or a laptop, pick a name and a seat, and they're in.

The game your group plays

Private doesn't mean basic. Every table comes with what a good home game needs:

• Host controls: pause, change the blinds between hands, approve chips, seat late arrivals, name a co-host.
• Side games: straddles, running it twice and the rabbit hunt are free; bomb pots, pot folds and more with Premium. See them all.
• A ledger of every buy-in and result in chips, with the fewest transfers to even everyone up.
• Fair dealing you can check: after any hand, "Verify this deal" proves the deck wasn't changed once the deal began. How it works.
• Chat and reactions, and replays of any hand.

Chips only, always

Poker Rooms is a game for friends, not gambling. Chips keep score and nothing more: they can't be bought, sold or exchanged, and they're worth nothing. That's what lets anyone start a table, anywhere, in seconds.