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About the OBOS Poker studio
We are a small independent game studio. We are building OBOS Poker — a social, play-money poker game that runs in a browser — and we publish the pieces of it we can give away as free poker tools.
Play money only. OBOS Poker is a game, not a gambling site. There is nothing to deposit, nothing to win, and no affiliate links anywhere on this site.
What we are building
OBOS Poker started as a simple question: why is it still awkward to sit down and play a hand of poker with friends? Most answers on the internet want you to install something, create an account, or put money somewhere. We wanted the version where you open a link and play.
The core of the game is a hand evaluator and a scoring engine — the part that decides who won and by how much. That part is written and tested. The table, the multiplayer layer, and the art are the work ahead of us. When there is something real to play, this is where it will appear first.
Honest status, in one line
The game is in development and not playable yet. No release date has been announced, because we do not have one we would trust ourselves to keep.
Why we give the tools away
The engine that decides a poker hand is useful outside the game. So we put it on the web for free: an odds calculator, and interactive hand references on the way. No sign-up, no ads, no one paying us to send you somewhere.
That last part matters. Almost every free poker tool on the internet is a funnel to a site that takes money. Ours is not, and it never will be — it is a funnel to our own game, and our game is play money.
What we do not do
- No real-money play. No deposits, no withdrawals, no wagering of any kind.
- No affiliate links. We take no commission from anyone, ever.
- No fake urgency. No countdowns, no invented release dates, no made-up player counts.
- No anonymous bylines. If we write something here, it comes from the studio and we stand behind it.
This domain's earlier life
Between 2025 and mid-2026 this site published a different kind of article — explainers about table games, promotions, and their terms. That was before the game became the point of the site. We have not deleted those pages, because people still arrive at them from old links, and quietly breaking links is its own kind of dishonesty. They are archived and linked from the home page, and they are not where this site is going.
Talk to us
One email address, read by the people who build this: [email protected]. Ask about the game, report something broken in a tool, or ask to be told when there is something to play.