Live poker, dealt by hand
Poker Tables & Live Play
Eight tables under charcoal cloth, a single birch-green betting line on each, and a 32-seat dining room one half-wall away. A runner carries food from the kitchen to the tables between hands; no plate is ever set on the felt.
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THE TABLE
Eight tables fill the main room, each with charcoal cloth and a single birch-green betting line. Seats face the felt, and the room is arranged around the hand in front of you.
THE CARDS
Cards are pitched by hand, and a fresh setup goes on each table after four hours of play. Every table carries a wooden caddy with a cut card, a spare setup and a laminated copy of the house rules, so a worn card or a rules question does not stall the next hand.
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Pitch
Dealt by hand
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Cut
Cut card in the caddy
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Setup
Changed every four hours
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THE CHIPS
Ten-gram ceramics in 1, 5, 25, 100 and 500, kept in birch-fronted racks behind the host desk. The stack in front of you is the stack you play.
THE PLAYERS
The table is a shared surface before it is anything else. Players sit within arm's reach of the same charcoal cloth, and house rule one keeps phones face-down on the padded rail — never on the felt — so attention stays on the hand and the people at the table.
Dealers introduce themselves by first name at every table change and post the current blind level on a small wooden sign. The floor manager keeps a printed seating chart and seats a new player beside a regular wherever the chart allows, which gives a first visit a nearby example of how the table runs.
A first-visit walkthrough takes about five minutes: the host covers the list, the chip colours and the four house rules printed on a card. After that, the table does the rest — bets are made face to face, chips are counted in the open, and the next hand starts when the last one is settled.
THE PACE
