How to play poker without chips

By Michael Jonna

All you need is a deck of cards and your phones.

I was on my graduation trip with my college friends. We always played poker, but nobody brought chips, and none of us liked fully online poker. So I built Chipless.

The phones become the chips. You still deal a real deck, shuffle, and stare each other down. Everyone's phone is their stack, and it keeps track of the bets, blinds and pot. At the end it shows who owes who.

  1. 1.Host starts a game on their phone.
  2. 2.Friends join by QR or code with just a name.
  3. 3.Deal real cards and bet with your phones.
Start a game

100% free. No app download, no account needed.

Chipless keeps poker real: real cards, real people at the table. No cards, or friends who aren't there? I'm a fan of PokerNow!