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Looking for a way to play online poker with your friends and keep your home games running?

Some of the best online poker sites give you everything you need to create a private poker club, invite people to join you there, and play online poker with your friends for free and real money.

ClubGG Poker, PokerStars, and 888poker are the most popular poker rooms to offer a service like this one and by far the best ones to play poker with friends.

Setting up poker games with friends on these two sites is easy, fast and free. All you need is to make sure you and your friends have an account on the poker site of your choice and the right codes to access your private games.

In this article you'll find:

Note: to compile this guide to the best poker apps to play online poker with friends, we tried other (supposedly) free apps like Pokerrrr 2, Poker Heat, and more.

We did not include them here because tried forced us to complete in-app purchases to keep our games going. And that's not cool.

Best Poker Apps to Play Poker with Friends

Poker Site	How	Real Money Games	Free Money	Countries	Create Game
ClubGG	Create your own poker club or join the Club PokerNews (ID: 811180)	No	Yes	All	*Register (Free)*
PokerStars	Create your poker club and invite your friends to play cash games and tournaments	Yes	Yes	Regulated (US: NJ Only)	*Register (Free)*
888poker	Invite your friends to play private games of virtual poker. Cash games and tournaments available.	Yes	Yes	Regulated (US: NJ Only)	*Register (Free)*

Online Home Games at ClubGG

ClubGG is one of the newest play money apps where you can host your own private games and boasts many of the features that grew GGPoker into one of the biggest real-money online poker rooms in the world in a very short period of time.

In an equally short period of time, ClubGG emerged as one of the go-to places to play private online poker games with friends and family.

Not only can you create your own club where you design your own home games absolutely for free, but you can also join the PokerNews Club (ID: 811180) as well where we will be hosting a full slate of fun tournaments and non-stop ring games that you can play absolutely for free.

PokerNews Live Reporting Executive Jason Glatzer published an extensive guide on how to join our FREE Club PokerNews at ClubGG. There, you find everything you need to get started playing at ClubGG in no time as well as learn how to join our club.

Download ClubGG Poker via Google Play, Android, or the App Store
Open the ClubGG app on your mobile device
Click 'SIGN UP NOW'
Enter your email address and click 'GET CODE'
Check your email for the verification code and enter in the ClubGG App
Create and confirm your preferred password
Click 'REGISTER' to receive your free ClubGG account

From there you can either create your own club, join a friends club, or join us at Club PokerNews by searching for us under ID: 811160.

ClubGG Home Games FAQ

Can you play Home Games on the ClubGG app?

Yes, ClubGG was designed with home games in mind. Players can set-up their own club with friends or join another club including Club PokerNews (ID: 811180).

The app is available on Android an iOS (free download here) - with the app you can play Home Games on iPad, iPhone, and Android devices.

What games can you play on ClubGG with friends?

On the ClubGG Home Games app you can play:

Texas Hold'em
Omaha
5-Card Omaha
Short Deck (coming soon)
OFC

Are ClubGG Home Games free?

Yes. You get 100,000 free chips by joining Club PokerNews (ID: 811180) and many other clubs also give away free chips.

Online Home Games on PokerStars

Right now, PokerStars is among one of your best choices to play private poker games online with friends.

PokerNews Executive Editor William Shillibier published an extensive guide on how to set up a home game online on PokerStars. There, you find everything you need to get started in no time.

When you register for the PokerStars Home Games, you can choose between cash games and tournaments-

To create private poker 'Home Games' and launch your first private poker game online, you need to follow these steps:

Install the PokerStars poker client
Access the 'Home Games' section
Create your private poker game to play with friends

In the PokerStars.eu client, you find the 'Home Games' section at the bottom of the menu on the right-hand side.

Once you are there, click on the 'Manage Games' tab and choose the type of game you want to play with your friends. You can choose between cash games and tournaments.

As of July 2021, players can choose to create and play no-limit hold'em, pot-limit Omaha, and five-card pot-limit Omaha. ClubGG plans to also release short deck hold'em and open-faced Chinese poker in the near future.

How to Set Up a Cash Game on PokerStars

To launch your table, choose the game, the format, the number of players you want in the game, and the currency.

The poker games you can play with your friends online are:

Poker Variant	Real Money	Free Play
Texas hold'em	Yes	Yes
Omaha	No	Yes
Omaha H/L	No	Yes
Stud	Yes	Yes
Stud H/L	Yes	Yes
Razz	Yes	Yes
5-Card Draw	Yes	Yes
2-7 Single Draw	Yes	Yes
2-7 Triple Draw	Yes	Yes
HORSE	Yes	Yes
NLHE / PLO	Yes	Yes
8 Game	Yes	Yes
Badugi	Yes	Yes

The stakes change whether you want to play with real money or not. For example, real money private games of Texas hold'em begin at $0.01 / $0.02 and go up to $0.50 / $1.

The free money equivalents have a completely different range with stakes moving from 100/200 up to 500,000/1,000,000.

Omaha cash games are available only in the play-money version.

How to Set Up a Private Poker Tournament on PokerStars

Creating a private online tournament to play online poker with your friends is equally simple.

Select the type of game you want to play, the number of players per table, the buy-in, the format, and you are good to go.

PokerStars gives you plenty of poker games to choose from. You can challenge your friends on your favourite variant — or you can set up a nice private game to discover some new poker games with them.

Your online private poker tournaments can be in any of the following variants:

Poker At Home With Friends With Real Money