The Card Room

What Exactly Happens Behind the Window?

Which games run on which nights, how the tables are set, and what a house dealer actually does.

The Room

What Do Seven Tables Under Lamplight Actually Look Like?

How is the room laid out? Seven tables, each under its own low lamp, with one smaller table kept apart for two-handed games.

What happens to the chips at the end of the night? They're swept back into the drawer, counted, and stacked for tomorrow — they never carry cash value and are never bought or sold at any point.

Does someone always deal? Only on request — a house dealer sits in mostly for guests learning a game for the first time.

A house dealer laying out a hand of euchre across worn green baize.

Five Hundred

The busiest table most nights, four to a hand.

Euchre and Crib

Two tables running side by side most evenings.

Bridge

A standing Sunday table, quieter than the rest of the room.

Which Night, Which Game

What Runs on Which Night?

ThursdayThe quietest of the five open nightsCrib, rummy
FridayBusiest night, worth booking aheadFive hundred
SaturdayCanasta and friendly poker alongside the restMixed tables
SundayOne standing table of regularsBridge
MondayA calmer close to the open weekEuchre