Chess
Full-rules chess — the house bot at five levels, pass-and-play on one screen, or an online game with a friend by invite code.
Games
The games are on. Pick your table.
Everything below opens right here on this page — no lobby, no link-hunting. Chess against the house bot or a friend, a trivia night for your Pick'em crew, play-money cards, 501 darts against the house thrower, and 8-ball on a real physics table. Records save to your profile; the cards run on play chips only, always.
Trivia Night
Host a night for your Pick'em group — your questions or Luka's bank, host-approved before it runs, live with Luka as MC or async on your crew's schedule.
Cards & darts
Play-money blackjack and heads-up hold'em against house bots, and 501 darts — tap the board, mind the bust, finish on a double.
Billiards — 8-Ball
A real physics table and full house bar rules: the house bot at three levels, pass-and-play, or an online table with a friend by invite code.
The social core sits one door over: Pick'em — private groups, invite links, and season-long standings.
Chess
The complete game — castling, en passant, promotion by your pick, check, mate, and stalemate all enforced. Play the house bot (five levels, from House Casual to House Master), share the screen in pass-and-play, or start an online game and hand a friend the invite code: you're White, the code seats him at Black, and the board stays in sync move by move. Online games ride your clubhouse account, so they wait for sign-in and the member database — the board says so plainly when they aren't switched on. One simplification, stated on the board: the 50-move draw is claimed automatically and threefold repetition isn't tracked.
The Card Room
Every clubhouse needs a felt table in the back. Ours is open: blackjack against the house dealer and heads-up Texas hold'em against the house bot, both on play chips. Private multi-seat poker tables for your group are a later build — the heads-up table is where the room plays today.
Blackjack — you vs the dealer
Six-deck shoe, dealer stands on all 17s, blackjack pays 3:2, double down on your first two cards. No splits and no insurance — the table says so itself. Your record — hands, wins, blackjacks, biggest win — saves to your profile.
Poker — heads-up hold'em vs the house bot
Blinds 10/20, full streets, real hand evaluation down to the wheel. The bot's logic is printed on the table — preflop by a high-card/pair table, postflop by made-hand strength and draws — so you always know what kind of player you're up against.
Play money only — no real-money gambling here, ever.
Chips are free play chips. They are handed out and refilled by the site, and they are never purchasable, never redeemable, and worth nothing anywhere off this site. Nobody can buy chips, cash chips out, or settle a card game in money here.
What you win is the game itself: the table, leaderboard points, season records, and trophies for your profile. That's the whole prize pool — bragging rights, kept on the record.
There are no pot features anywhere near the card room — no pot ledger, no organizer QR code, no buy-in language tied to money. That is deliberate and permanent: on Pick'em the games being picked happen out in the world; at these tables we deal the cards, so money on the table would make this site the casino. The one exception in the clubhouse — a Pick'em group settling its own pot off-site, friend to friend — never applies to card games. See Pick'em for that line, in full.
When the free game gives you the itch for a real table
The Card Room carries a state-by-state directory of the real-world game, because that's the honest funnel: play free here, get the itch, and the clubhouse hands you the real room near home.
- Poker rooms and card clubs — where they are and what games they spread
- Tournament series and one-off events — plus blackjack tournaments where venues run them
- Charity poker nights — the local one-night games that support a cause
- Free bar poker leagues — no entry cost, real tables, real people: the natural first live game for our free players
Pick your state and area and the directory shows what's near you and what's coming up. Every listing is information only and links out to the venue's or series' official page, where you register — we never take entries, registrations, or a cut of anything. Listings are sourced from official venue and series pages and shown with the date they were checked, and casino listings carry the venue's own age rule on the listing (usually 21+).
Find your game
What you'll get back:
Rooms and events near you — sourced from official venue and series pages
Schedules and details — shown with a checked-as-of date
Register — link out to the venue's official page; casino listings show the venue's age rule
Card shows — from the Showroom wire
The Card Room plays the games; the Showroom tracks the hobby. Its wire watches the card-show calendar:
Darts — 501
A real board, scored by real geometry: the regulation number order, doubles and trebles where they belong, bull worth 25 and the red heart 50. Tap where the dart lands — three a visit, bust and the visit is void, and you must finish on a double. Checkout suggestions appear whenever you're at 170 or under. Across the oche: the house thrower, who aims at treble 20 and the checkout target with about a segment of spread — his model is printed at the table, misses and all. Legs and records (best visit, 180s, legs won) save to your profile.
Billiards — 8-Ball
The clubhouse pool table, with real physics under it: balls collide, cushions give back most of what they take, and pockets swallow what finds the jaws. Drag back on the table to aim and set power, release to shoot. Play the house bot at three levels — his model is printed at the table, aim error and all — pass the screen in pass-and-play, or open an online table and hand a friend the invite code: you break first as Player 1, and every settled rack position syncs to his screen shot by shot. Online tables ride your clubhouse account, so they wait for sign-in and the member database — the table says so plainly when they aren't switched on. Your racks against the bot and against friends online save to your profile, run-outs included.
Trivia Night
Your group's organizer hosts a virtual trivia night for the group — same private groups, invite links, and group pages as Pick'em. The group plays together live, or async over a day or a week when nobody can gather. A group's season can run Pick'em in the fall and trivia nights all year.
Write it, or let Luka build it
- The host writes his own — his questions, his answer key, his night; the platform runs the timers, the locks, and the scoring
- Luka builds the whole quiz — the host picks the categories and the size: sports, movies (the Screening Room's home turf), decades, general knowledge, a mixed bag, or a Beer Corner pack for After Hours groups
- Built like a real night — rounds with a difficulty curve (warm-ups first, separators last), an answer key with a source noted for specific factual claims, and tiebreakers held in reserve
- The host approves it first — always — Luka's questions go to the host to review, edit, and approve before the night. Generated questions can be wrong, so a generated quiz never goes live unreviewed
The virtual MC
- Timed questions, locked answers — Luka presents each question on a timer; when time expires, answers lock and scoring is automatic
- Leaderboard and standings calls — the board updates as the night goes, and Luka calls the standings between rounds: who's up, who's chasing, where the movement was
- The result, posted — when the night ends, the final standings and a recap post to the group's own page, where the night's record stays with the crew
- Async mode — the same quiz stays open over a day or a week; same locking, same scoring, no live MC required
A trivia pot works exactly like a Pick'em pot — because it's the same kind of contest.
Trivia Night is an organizer-run contest: the host's group, the host's quiz. So if the group plays for a pot, the organizer holds it entirely off this platform and pays the winner directly, the group page's paid/unpaid ledger and the organizer's Venmo QR apply just as they do for Pick'em, and the platform never accepts, holds, moves, or takes a cut of trivia money — ever.
That line is drawn by who runs the game. Pick'em and Trivia Night are the members' own contests run on house software. The card tables are house-run games — we deal the cards — so they get no pot features at all. Public, open-entry paid trivia is not offered.
Later, if the room earns it
Survivor pools
Pick one winner a week; lose once and you're done. Part of the House games calendar.
Brackets & squares
A bracket for the big March college tournament and squares for the championship game — seasonal, social, and run inside your group.
9-ball & pool leagues
The 8-ball table is live now (above). Rotation 9-ball and league nights on the same table join the calendar later.
Everything on this page is a friendly game between members. No game here takes a wager, and Pick'em pots — if a group runs one — stay off the site entirely. See Pick'em for exactly how that line works.