Ironbark EstatesBook Ahead
The card hall

A closer look at the green baize

Six felt tables, a house dealer, and games that have run at Ironbark Estates for longer than most of the regulars can recall.

The felt

Six tables, six nights a week

The card hall sits behind the dining room under the old grain-floor beams, laid out with six felt tables spaced well apart from one another.

Five hundred takes the two busiest tables most nights, with euchre and crib filling the rest before a friendly poker table opens later in the evening.

A house dealer works each table once the room fills, and chips are issued from the counter for points only, never for cash.

A dealer's hand sliding cards across worn green felt during a round of five hundred

  • Five Hundred

    Two tables running most Wednesday and Thursday evenings

  • Euchre & Crib

    The smaller tables, often the first to fill early

  • Friendly Poker

    No buy-in, opening once supper service has quietened

Inside the hall

The room in pictures

Six felt tables under copper pendant lights across the card hall
Cards fanned out mid-deal on the felt of the busiest table
A table set and waiting with chips stacked in neat columns
A mug of tea left on the counter between hands
The building's stone front, lit up as the evening starts
A wider view of the hall showing all six tables at once
The quieter side lounge where slower games often move
A player's hand of cards held close beside a stack of chips
A copper pot and cups set out for the counter run