Private bookings for groups
Private Poker Evenings
Birthdays, team evenings, friends' gatherings and celebrations run on the same eight tables, with the 32-seat dining room behind the low half-wall for anyone who wants to eat. Enquiries go to [email protected] or +1 (604) 498-6160; the host desk confirms what can be held, and nothing is booked the moment you…
How a private group night is laid out
A private evening here is the same room, the same eight tables and the same dealers, held for the group that books it. Birthdays, friends' gatherings, team evenings and private celebrations all run on one format: charcoal cloth on every table, a single birch-green betting line, and the dining room's 32 seats on birch plywood banquettes waiting behind the half-wall for whoever wants to eat before or during play.
The format scales by table rather than by package. A group can take one table or the whole floor of eight; the chalk board beside the host desk is rewritten for the night and rubbed out as seats open, exactly as it is on a public evening. Wednesday is Omaha night in the room, with pot-limit Omaha running on tables 5 through 8, and the other nights are hold'em.
Timing follows the room's standing rules. The call-ahead list opens one hour before the posted start and a held place lapses 20 minutes past the stated time, so a private group's arrival time is set in advance rather than assumed. The floor manager keeps a printed seating chart and seats newer players beside a regular wherever the chart allows, and a greeter in the entrance vestibule checks ID under the venue's 18+ access policy.
Private bookings are arranged through the host desk, not automatically through the website.
Charcoal cloth, ceramic chips, one birch-green line
Every table starts the same way: the wooden caddy is checked before the first hand, with its cut card, spare setup and laminated house rules. Chips come from the birch-fronted racks behind the host desk, and a fresh setup goes on each table after four hours of play.
Plates that arrive between the hands
The kitchen and the floor are run as one operation, so a private group can eat without leaving the table or losing a hand. Dining is arranged with the booking: the dining room seats 32 on birch plywood banquettes, and a runner carries food to the tables between hands.
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Food run to the rail
A runner carries plates from the kitchen to the tables between hands, and no plate is ever set on the felt. Groups that would rather sit down can take the dining room first — 32 seats on birch plywood banquettes behind a low half-wall — and move through to the tables afterwards.
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The room behind the half-wall
Thirty-two seats on birch plywood banquettes, separated from the poker room by a low half-wall so the table floor stays visible from the table you are eating at. Restaurant tables can be booked up to 60 days ahead by phone or through the form on the site, and a table is held for 30 minutes past the booked time.
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Six plates and two desserts
The kitchen runs a short seasonal menu: a rotisserie bird carved for two, a barley-and-mushroom plate, a smoked-trout salad, a hanger steak and a pan-seared pickerel among the mains, with a buttermilk panna cotta and a dark chocolate tart to finish. The kitchen takes its last order 30 minutes before closing.
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Six Canadian craft beers on tap
The dining room bar pours six Canadian craft beers into 16-ounce glasses, alongside the house lager, a Caesar and a birch spritz. Drip coffee and pots of loose-leaf tea run all night, and a self-serve still water and drip coffee station sits at the end of the host desk.
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What dinner adds to the bill
The average bill in the dining room is C$40–C$55 per guest without drinks, which is the figure to budget per head if the group eats before play. Parties of 12 or more are asked for a deposit, taken off the bill at the end of the night.
From a first email to a held table
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Send the date and the headcount
Email [email protected] or call +1 (604) 498-6160 with the date, how many players are coming and whether the group wants to eat. Note any preference for tables or for the dining room and it will be read against the night's schedule.
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The host desk checks the floor
The request is measured against the room: eight tables, the 32 seats behind the half-wall, and what the chalk board already carries that evening. Sending an enquiry does not hold a table, and the desk will say plainly if the date does not fit.
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You get the arrangement back
The reply sets out which tables can be set aside, the start time, and how dining would run alongside play — plates carried to the rail between hands, or a sit-down in the dining room, which seats 32, before the first deal. Changes are made at this stage, before anything is fixed.
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Confirm the booking and the dining
A private evening stands once the host desk confirms it; nothing is automatic before that point. If the group is eating as well, the dining side is confirmed in the same exchange, with the deposit rule applied to parties of 12 or more.
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On the night
Come in through the vestibule, where a greeter checks ID under the 18+ access policy, and take the five-minute walkthrough: the host covers the list, the chip colours and the four house rules printed on a card.