Pick'em
The social core of the clubhouse. Private groups, invite links, weekly or daily slates across the major sports, and a season-long argument with standings to back it up.
Games
Short bursts. Real opponents. Your friends.
Every clubhouse game is async and turn-based, built for a life that comes in spare minutes. Make your move at lunch; your friend answers after the kids are down. No lobbies, no timers breathing down your neck.
Chess
Proper chess against a real person, one move at a time — the multiplayer engine already runs in our sister games academy and ports here with grown-up branding. Casual games are free; House members get leagues and tournaments.
Game lobby opens with member accounts.
Darts
The virtual dartboard: a simple aim-and-timing throw, best-of legs against a friend or the room, async turns between visits. Deliberately small, deliberately first in line once the opening games have real players.
Not in the opening build — first fast-follow.
The Card Room
Every clubhouse needs a felt table in the back. Ours seats poker and blackjack — arriving with darts in the first fast-follow wave, not in the opening build.
Poker — private tables
An organizer sets up a private table for his friends with an invite link — the same pattern as a Pick'em group — and deals them in, bots filling empty seats if you want them. Solo tables too, when the room is quiet.
Blackjack — you vs the dealer
A clean, quick blackjack table against a computer dealer. Sit down for five hands or fifty, in the same short bursts as everything else here.
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
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 — final standings and a recap go to the group page and the Board when the night ends, and the night's record joins the group's archive
- 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.
Pool
A simple virtual table in the same async style. A candidate for later — only after the opening games have real players.
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.