Dates and evenings at Ironbark Estates
A rough shape of a night, from doors open to the last hand dealt.
Doors to last hand, roughly
The evening at Ironbark Estates runs on a loose but fairly reliable rhythm, from the first supper sitting through to the counter closing behind the last hand of the night.
Supper tends to fill first, with the card hall building slowly behind it as the dining room empties out toward nine or so.
By eleven the smaller tables usually run quieter, while a table of five hundred or the friendly poker table often carries on until the counter calls it.
Early
Supper tables fill from six, card hall still quiet
Mid-evening
Kitchen winds down, card hall picks up pace
Late
Smaller tables quieten, one or two tables run on
Close
Chips counted back in, house lights lowered
How the week shifts across the room
Fills earlier than most nights
All six tables usually going
Friendly poker runs longest
Quiet kept from ten in the smaller room