Play poker free. No signup, no download.
Pip is a free Texas Hold’em game that runs in a browser tab. No signup, no download, no real money, and the chips are not for sale. Type a name, pick a face, and you are at a table.
The engine is open source, so how the cards are dealt is something you can read rather than something you have to take our word for.
No email, no password, nothing to pay with.
The checklist, since that is what the question really is
| What you are checking for | What Pip does |
|---|---|
| Signup or account | Not needed. Type a name and you are in. |
| Download or install | None. It is a web page. Installable if you want it. |
| Real money | None anywhere. No wallet, no card details, nothing to win of value. |
| Ads | None. |
| Chips for sale | None. Run out and a free table opens instead. |
| Pop-ups and daily-reward guilt | None. |
| Where your progress lives | Your browser, on your device. Ours only if you switch sync on, and it ships off. |
| What it costs | Nothing to play. Not a trial, and nothing in it gets metered later. |
Most pages answering this query are affiliate pages, and the free game on them is a doorway to a casino that pays them for you. There is no doorway here. Nothing on this site takes payment, so nothing on this site is trying to move you towards taking out a card.
What the first two minutes look like
You land on one screen that asks for a name and offers you a face, and that is the entire signup. You start with 200 chips, and a seat at the Friends’ Garage costs 100, which is the bottom rung of a ladder of ten venues that runs up to The Main Event. Above that sit side tables that bend the format, ring games, and one Daily Deal.
Win and your Roll grows, lose it all and a free table opens so you can win your way back in. Nothing about that loop has a purchase in it, which is why it can afford to be honest about how it is going.
The honest limits
It is single-player. You are playing a cast of AI regulars, not other people. There is no multiplayer yet.
The AI is good, not superhuman. It plays a real game, equity and pot odds and position and bluffs, and a strong player will still out-read it.
The money is not real and never will be. If you came looking for a real-money game, this is the wrong page and there is nothing further down it that changes that.
Common questions
Is it actually free?
Yes. No ads, no signup, and no charge to play. The chips are play money and they are not for sale, and there is no advantage you can buy at any price, which is the part that makes the rest of it hold: there is no purchase for us to be steering you towards.
Do I need to sign up?
No. You type a name, pick a face, and sit down. No email, no password, no verification link.
There is one optional account, and it does exactly one thing: carries your progress to a second device. It is off unless you turn it on, and everything in the game works without it.
Do I need to download anything?
No. Pip is a web page and it plays in the tab you are reading this in. If you want it as an app you can install it from your browser, and it will then work with no connection at all.
Is any real money involved?
None, ever. There is no wallet, no cash-out, no prize with a value, and no currency symbol anywhere in the app. It is not a gambling site and there is nothing in it to gamble with.
Who am I playing against?
A fixed cast of AI regulars, not other people and not one bot wearing different names. They weigh their equity against the pot odds through a personality of their own, so they value-bet, semi-bluff, trap and fold.
They are solid rather than superhuman. A strong player will out-read them, and we would rather say so here than have you find out and feel sold to.
Can I play on my phone?
Yes. It runs in any modern browser, and you can install it to the home screen from there. It was designed on a desktop first, so that is where it looks its best.
What happens if I lose all my chips?
A free table opens up, heads-up against the softest opponent in the game, and winning it buys you back onto the ladder. There is no top-up to purchase and no timer to wait out, because there is nothing here that a stuck player could be sold.
Is the shuffle fair?
The whole engine is open source, so this is a question you can settle by reading rather than by trusting us. An ordinary hand is shuffled by your own browser: there is no server in it, so there is nobody in a position to deal you anything on purpose.
The Daily Deal is the stronger version. It is dealt from a seed derived from the date, which makes it identical for everyone in the world that day and reproducible from the source code.
If you want to learn rather than just play
The written guides are free too, and they are the same deal as this page: public, no signup, no half of an answer held back.
Start with how to play Texas Hold’em if you have never played a hand, poker hand rankings for what beats what, and which starting hands to play once the rules have stopped being the hard part. There is also a three-minute tour that needs nothing from you at all.
That is the whole pitch. This is a page about not having to do anything before you play, so the most useful thing it can do now is end.