Top Poker Manga Recommendations

Tomodachi Game

Also known as Tomodachi Game.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

Play a game that costs a lot of money with your best friends! The key to clearing the game is "don't doubt your friends." However, one betrayal raises suspicion, and the game becomes a psychological warfare! Money or friends?

The ultimate intellectual game manga that shakes people's hearts has been born!



Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Death Game , Male Protagonist , Battle Royale , Tragedy , Shounen , Revenge , Yandere , Gambling , LGBTQ+ Themes , Card Battle , Adoption , Ensemble Cast , Poker

Usogui

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Thriller

There are gamblers out there who even bet their lives as ante. But to secure the integrity of these life-threatening gambles, a violent and powerful organization by the name of "Kakerou" referees these games as a neutral party. Follow Baku Madarame a.k.a. Usogui (The Lie Eater) as he gambles against maniacal opponents at games—such as Escape the Abandoned Building, Old Maid, and Hangman—to ultimately "out-gamble" and control the neutral organization of Kakerou itself.

Tags: Gambling , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Crime , Anti-Hero , Martial Arts , Philosophy , Memory Manipulation , Death Game , Amnesia , Poker , Mafia , Tragedy , Gore , Terrorism , Guns , Fairy Tale

Kakegurui

Also known as Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent-the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling?

At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!



Tags: Gambling , Card Battle , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Female Cast , Poker , Anti-Hero , LGBTQ+ Themes , Death Game , Primarily Teen Cast , Villainess , Twins , School Club , Ojou-sama , Slavery , Bullying , Drugs , Shounen , Idol , Yuri , Male Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Economics , Family Life

Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: One Poker-hen

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Kaiji and Kazuya face off against each other in a high-stakes game of "One Poker," a modified version of standard poker. Kazuya sets forth a gamble of 2,000,000,000 yen! How will Kaiji survive?!

Chapter count for this arc is 101-254 in the original tankoubon.

Tags: Poker , Gambling , Card Battle , Death Game , Survival , Seinen , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast

Fate/strange Fake

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

The stage: the city of Snowfield in the western U.S., far from Fuyuki. There, a "false Holy Grail War", quite unlike the original Holy Grail War, unfolds. There were those who had been keeping an eye on the auguries of the Holy Grail in Snowfield. According to an investigation by the Mage's Association, the Holy Grail War system in Snowfield was an imitation of the one in Fuyuki. What's more, the system was incomplete, leading to the exclusion of one of the seven classes and the selection of beings as Servants who ordinarily could not be summoned. It was, verily, a strange fake. As an organ of the U.S. government executes its various plots, the Servants are summoned one after another...

Tags: Magic , Battle Royale , Archery , Gods , Demons , Vampire , Police , Poker , Assassins , Gambling , Witch , Animals , Urban , Super Power , Dissociative Identities , Philosophy , Nun , Religion , Agender , Chimera , Cyborg , Afterlife , Conspiracy , Revenge , Twins , Werewolf , Spearplay , Mythology , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Foreign , Urban Fantasy , Swordplay , Espionage , Gender Bending , Guns

Gin to Kin

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sports

Morita Tetsuo's life changes when he meets Hirai Ginji, who works in the unknown and mysterious 'back world' of society full of villains.

Tags: Economics , Anti-Hero , Politics , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Yakuza , Crime , Tragedy , Gambling , Revenge , Primarily Adult Cast , Poker , Primarily Male Cast , Philosophy , Mahjong

Baccano!

Also known as Baccano!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mystery , Supernatural

New York, 1927.

In a corrupt city where crime rules the streets, Firo Prochainezo is in the Camorra, an Italian criminal syndicate distinct from the mafia. Though a member of the relatively small Martillo family, Firo has big ambitions and is determined to make his mark. But while the Martillos may not be the biggest bad guys on the block, they've got some distinct advantages working in their favor. Does Firo have what it takes to become a made man?

Let the crazy ruckus begin!



Tags: Mafia , Seinen , Crime , Alchemy , Foreign , Poker , Urban Fantasy

Tobaku Haouden Zero Gyanki-hen

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

This is part 2 of Gambling Emperor Legend Zero, picking up a few years after the cliffhanger ending of part 1.

Tags: Shounen , Gambling , Poker , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Golf

Usokui

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological

Usokui is a manga one-shot created by Sako Toshio, in 2005, for Weekly Young Jump's 48th Manga Grand Prix competition. It won an honorable mention and was later published in the 48th issue of the magazine, that same year. The one-shot serves as a prototype for what eventually became Usogui.

Note: Republished in split-up sections as side stories for volumes 12-15 of Usogui as Igyou Tobakusha Usokui.

Tags: Gambling , Seinen , Poker , Male Protagonist , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Mafia

Busou Poker

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

A Western set in a town without laws. The story begins with a wealthy old man telling his accounts of a dangerous poker game between gunmen

Tags: Gambling , Poker

Poker King

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Nikaido Hiroshi and his two brothers each inherit 100 million yen. Who will become the sucessor to the Nikaido Tycoon? None other than the son that uses the money the best. So how does young Hiroshi use his money well? Stocks? Of course not. He goes straight down to Vegas and starts playing poker.

Tags: Poker , Shounen