Used to be able to once upon a time to have a room where friends could play.
However, this game's devs decided too many people were giving chips to friends who needed help and thus were not buying chips. (See you can give chips BUT you have to buy them because you can't just give someone chips.)

It's just a way for them to kill the fun in this game. There is a much better casino game (better graphics and YOU decide who you can sit at a table with, IF you block someone they stay blocked. Unlike here where someone is just blocked for a game and they dgaf if you get that same person in the next table and they continue abusing you, even if you "blocked" them.

I'd move back to it because the atmosphere is a lot more friendly and while you will lose, far far more realistic, than the devs here will ever allow this game to be, because they are far too greedy here.