Play Blackjack with Friends Online: Free Private Tables

How to start a private table

1. Open BlackJackStreak.com. You land at the table with 500,000 chips.
2. Press Friends. Type the name you want at the table and press Start a table.
3. Send the link. It looks like blackjackstreak.com/t/K7Q2XM. Copy it into your group chat, a text or an email.
4. Your friends open it, type a name and pull up a seat. That's the whole setup.

Nobody has to download anything, and nobody needs an account to join. The table has five seats: yours and four for your friends.

How a round works at a friends table

In blackjack, everyone plays against the dealer, never against each other. So at a BlackJack Streak table, each of you has your own chips and your own hands, and all of you can beat Frank on the same round. You cheer each other on instead of trying to knock each other out.

Frank deals to everyone from one shoe, in turn, just like a casino table. To keep things moving without anyone feeling rushed:

• Betting: put your chips out and press Deal me in. When everyone is in, the cards come out. Once one person is in, the others get 15 seconds to bet.
• Decisions: each one has a 20-second clock, shown on the player's name and above your buttons. If it runs out, Frank stands for that player.
• Slow phones are fine: a player's clock only starts once their own screen has finished dealing the cards, so an older phone never costs anyone time.

You're always in the middle

At BlackJack Streak, every player sees their own seat front and center, with friends around the curve of the table in the order Frank deals to them. Their cards are dealer-sized, turned to face them, with their name at their betting circle.

On a phone, where the far seats are off screen, every hand at the table is listed in the side panel, so you can always see what your friends are holding. There's more on playing from a phone in blackjack on your phone.

Frank knows everyone's name

Frank greets each friend as they sit down, calls their turn, and makes a fuss of their blackjacks. With a friend called Priya at the table, you might hear:

And when someone heads off for the night: “Priya is heading out. Come back soon!” Meet the rest of his material in Meet Frank, the dealer.

When someone's connection drops

Wi-Fi wobbles and trains go through tunnels. BlackJack Streak is built for it:

• A player who drops off keeps their seat for two minutes.
• If it's their turn, Frank stands for them after 8 seconds, so nobody else is stuck waiting.
• When they come back, they're put straight back at the table, in the middle of a round if need be.
• Opening the game in a second tab moves your seat there, and the first tab offers to take it back.

The host sets the rules

Whoever starts the table is the host. The host can change the table rules in Settings: the number of decks (1, 2, 4, 6 or 8), whether the dealer hits or stands on soft 17, late surrender on or off, and reshuffling at the cut card or before every hand. The host can also reshuffle the shoe between rounds. If the host leaves, the next player becomes host, so the game carries on.

Planning a longer session? Our guide to hosting a blackjack game night online has house-rule ideas and friendly contests.

Fair for everyone at the table

When friends play together, nobody wants to wonder whether the cards favor someone. At BlackJack Streak, every player's browser adds its own random seed to the shuffle, and the dealer's secret seed is sealed with a fingerprint before the shoe is used. Nobody can choose the order of the cards, not the host, not another player, and not whoever runs the server. After the shoe is retired, anyone at the table can check it in the Fair shuffle panel. The details are on our provably fair blackjack page.

Badges for playing together

With a free BlackJack Streak account (email only, 18+), playing with friends earns badges of its own:

• Table Mates: play a round with friends at your table.
• Full House: play a round at a full table of five.
• Regular: play 100 rounds with friends.

Your account also keeps your chips, stats and every hand you've played, and tops your chips back up to 500,000 for free whenever you run low. Guests can play everything at a friends table, but can't top up.

No money changes hands

BlackJack Streak uses play chips only. There are no deposits, no chips for sale and no cash prizes, so a table with friends is about the game, the banter and the bragging rights. Everyone starts with 500,000 chips, and it costs nobody anything to sit down.