Live hold'em and Omaha, 18+
Live Poker at Birch & Harbour
Poker at Birch & Harbour happens in person. Players sit around physical poker tables, handle real cards and chips, and experience poker as a face-to-face game rather than through a screen.
REAL TABLES
Eight tables fill the main room. Each is dressed in charcoal cloth with a single birch-green betting line running the length of the felt, and the chips kept in birch-fronted racks behind the host desk are 10-gram ceramics in denominations of 1, 5, 25, 100 and 500 — counted into the rack before the seat is given out.
Cards are pitched by hand, not fed from a shuffler. A fresh setup goes on each table after four hours of play, and every table carries a wooden caddy holding a cut card, a spare setup and a laminated copy of the house rules. Dealers introduce themselves by first name at each table change and stand a small wooden sign on the felt with the current blind level printed on it.
The night's lists are written in chalk on a board beside the host desk and rubbed out as seats open, so the board is the running record of who is waiting and for which game. Forty numbered lockers line the corridor to the washrooms, with brass tags handed out at the host desk when you sit down.
FACE-TO-FACE POKER
CARDS & CHIPS
Everything on the table is a physical object: cards pitched by hand from a setup kept in the wooden caddy, and 10-gram ceramic chips in 1, 5, 25, 100 and 500. The dealer's hands move the pot, and a fresh setup goes on each table after four hours.
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Pitch
Dealt by hand, fresh setup every four hours
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Chips
10-gram ceramics, 1 through 500
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Setup
Sealed, cut, and swapped at the table
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Caddy
Cut card, spare setup, house rules
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POKER ATMOSPHERE
Light sits low over the felt and warmer over the banquettes, on chairs built for a long session. The room is an adult evening throughout — 18+ at the door, dinner one half-wall away.
BEFORE YOU PLAY
The night's structure is settled and posted before cards come out: on Tuesday every player gets 20,000 chips and 20-minute blind levels with one 15-minute break, and the current level sits on a small wooden sign at each table.
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The night's games and the live list go up on the chalkboard by the door before the first hand.
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Tuesday hold'em gives every player 20,000 chips on 20-minute blind levels, with one 15-minute break.
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Sunday's deep-stack tournament runs 30-minute levels and a dinner break long enough to order from the kitchen.
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Four house rules are printed on a card at every table, with the date of the last revision in the corner.
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A first-visit walkthrough takes about five minutes: the list, the chip colours and the four house rules.
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The call-ahead list opens one hour before the posted start, and a held place lapses 20 minutes past the stated time.
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Wednesday is Omaha night, with pot-limit Omaha running on tables 5 through 8.
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ID is checked at the entrance vestibule under the venue's 18+ access policy.
NEW TO POKER?
Hold'em and Omaha are easy to watch and slower to play well; a first evening is mostly about learning where things go. Learn the Table sessions run on the first Monday of each month for groups of eight, teaching shuffling, chip handling and table etiquette — no experience needed, and no promise of a seat in a…
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The Poker Room
Eight tables fill the main room, each with charcoal cloth and a single birch-green betting line; a chalkboard by the door lists the night's games, the live list and the dealer on break. The four house rules are printed on a card at every table.
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Poker Tables & Live Play
How a hand actually runs here: the button, the blinds, the betting line and how a pot is squared. Useful before your first sit-down.
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Poker Nights
The weekly schedule, including Tuesday hold'em, Wednesday pot-limit Omaha and the Sunday deep-stack with its dinner break.
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Private Poker Evenings
Taking the room for a group, with the structure agreed before anyone sits down. Terms and capacity are on the page.
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FAQ
Short answers on entry, ID, seating, food at the table and what a held place means if you are running late.
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