The Duke

[smokiewoodlands]

Sorry, JFK (Just for kids) we do a Lincolnshire sausage with mash or chips ?5.50, Haddock & chips ?5.50, Macaroni & cheese ?5.50, Vanilla ice cream ?3

[smokiewoodlands]

And finally Parking has never been a problem for us as we're located in a quiet street opposite the school that is still being rebuilt!

[Mogs]

Davemcn - Scrabble/Chess/Bridge/Tantrix/Ker-Plunk/Drunken Operation/Hungry-Hippo Tournaments

I like this idea, and maybe there could be charge ?2.00 per game and winner takes all

[smokiewoodlands]

Thanks for your list of possible nights for The Duke, we are hopefully going to be building our reputation around Great Food, Great Drinks & Great Music, but that might change?

I hope to see you soon at the best Dining Room & Lounge Bar in Nunhead!!!

Yours Sincerely David Taylor (tu)

[smokiewoodlands]

That might border the illegal gambling act but I'm sure we can find a way round it with a prize bought from the entrance money

Quiz Night on Sunday evenings to start very soon too

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Like the random 20 minutes of smoking. My aim over the next few years is to surreptitiously smoke in every boozer around. One down, quite a few to go.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I feel the need to point out to those not aware that PGC is not, in fact, 16....

[david_carnell]

Under the new Gambling Act pubs can have small stakes betting on card games.

How about a poker night?

[pk]

david_carnell Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> Under the new Gambling Act pubs can have small

> stakes betting on card games.

>

> How about a poker night?

might not be the sort of kind that they're after (i think that some people think that poker's seedy)

but if they were to put on a poker night, i'd def try to make it

[david_carnell]

Well I'd fancy it too for small stakes. With enough people the gains are significant.

Plus the Duke's dining room is almost the perfect space for it.

[pk]

do you know what kind of stakes/games the Gambling Act would allow?

[david_carnell]

From the DCMS:

A limited amount of low stakes, social poker may be played in pubs. There is a stakes limit of ?5 per player per game (not per hand), and the aggregate stakes limit for pub poker is ?100 per day for each premises. So, for example, a pub could run a daily poker game involving 20 players staking ?5 each. The maximum prize for a game of poker played in a pub is also ?100. No charge or entry fee may be made for participating in pub poker and, as with clubs, no deductions or levies may be made from either stakes or prizes.

[pk]

david_carnell Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> From the DCMS:

>

> A limited amount of low stakes, social poker may

> be played in pubs. There is a stakes limit of ?5

> per player per game (not per hand), and the

> aggregate stakes limit for pub poker is ?100 per

> day for each premises. So, for example, a pub

> could run a daily poker game involving 20 players

> staking ?5 each. The maximum prize for a game of

> poker played in a pub is also ?100. No charge or

> entry fee may be made for participating in pub

> poker and, as with clubs, no deductions or levies

> may be made from either stakes or prizes.

i'd play a 20 player ?5 in tourney (with prizes of say ?60/?30/?10?)

and i'd buy a couple of drinks whilst i was there

sounds like a good idea for a quiet night (tuesday?), if there's actually interest beyond you and me

[Mogs]

I remember a couple of times when the prize when the prize money at the old Mag for play your cards right was well over ?1000

[david_carnell]

Yep, sounds good to me. Four tables of five people with the winners of each going on to a final and two or three walking away with the cash.

It's not a casino so there's no "comps" and everyone there will be drinking and maybe eating before or after (if they go out early!).

Over to you Mr Smokiewoodlands....

[David Mc]

I was going to put poker on my list but forgot in the end - it was getting a bit late!!!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'd be up for a polka night - rather fancy a dashing sergeant major!

[SeanMacGabhann]

After a few weeks of never been off the front page, this place has slipped off the radar a bit hasn't it?

I popped in last night after work to finish a book and was delighted to be near a real fire. Less delighted to be the only person there however (although people did turn up just before I left)

I still like this place a lot. Join me FFS

[Ted Max]

"You sit and read, alone, by the fire. Coals cracking their dry heat. Just as you leave, a group of people stumble in. You remember once ..."

No. Perhaps not.

[Brendan]

Well I would go this weekend but I?m only going out once a weekend at the moment and I already have something on, on Saturday.

[SeanMacGabhann]

so you are so you are - good man

[smokiewoodlands]

It's my 2nd last day today & as we have a busy night tomorrow for my last night, hopefully tonight will be a bit better than normal slow friday?

[Ted Max]

Eh? That's sad Smokie. I thought you were just in the door?

[smokiewoodlands]

As much as I love The Duke.

It's been an easy decision to head back to the west end, from Monday as I have my old job back running the members bar & restaurant @ teatro/stanza. The Duke will eventually become the best venue in that area once there's some decent advertising, word of mouth from the locals will get round (& further afield) & there's a landlord that will do things for the locals that are a bit more than normal (things done with a key?)

I will always look for The Duke's score on a Saturday & a piece of my heart will remain in Nunhead after I have gone to the wild west end.

Good Luck!

smokywoods

[Brendan]

What time does the Duke open in Saturdays? I'm in the area tomorrow afternoon and may need a lunchtime pint.