Straight answers.
Including the ones most rooms would rather you asked at the door.
Legality & safety.
Poker is played here as a game of skill, in a private club setting, for players aged eighteen and over, in accordance with the law as it applies in Karnataka.
Yes. Registration or licence details the club is willing to publish. Publishing something specific here is worth more than any other sentence on the site.
No. We verify identity at the door, admit nobody under eighteen, and operate openly at a published address. Our position is that a room worth playing in is a room that does not need to be discreet about existing.
A member of the floor watches every table, every hour. Collusion carries permanent removal with no case-by-case judgement. Our complete house rules are published on this website, and any player may request a deck change or a count-down at any time, without giving a reason. The Syndicate Standard →
Say “floor.” Everything stops, the hand is preserved, and the floor decides. Nobody has ever been made to feel foolish for calling it.
to confirm
Yes. We keep a record of who was in the room; we do not share it and we do not photograph the floor. no-photography policy Discretion is a house rule, not a courtesy.
No. Alcohol is not served.
Visiting.
1st Floor, ASV Towers, No.590, Sarjapur - Marathahalli Rd, 3rd Block, Santhosapuram, Koramangala 3 Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560034. Directions →
The room is open 24 hours a day, every day of the week.
No, but it helps, particularly Friday and Saturday, and particularly if you want a specific stake. Reserve →
Yes. If there is no seat we will tell you the real wait, and you can spend it at the bar rather than by the door.
Eighteen. There are no exceptions and no discretion, including for people we know.
Government-issued photo identification. Every visit. Including regulars, and including us.
Casual. Come as you are.
Street parking is available around the club.
Most people do. A poker table is one of the few rooms in the city where arriving alone is completely unremarkable.
Yes, and the floor takes conduct at the table seriously enough that this is a real answer rather than a polite one. Anything that makes the room worse for anyone is a matter for the floor, and the outcome is not a warning.
No. Not into the room, not into the bar, not to wait.
No. There is no cover charge and no entry fee.
Yes.
Step-free access, lift, accessible washroom. Answer this honestly, a vague answer here is worse than an inconvenient one.
Playing.
No Limit Hold'em, PLO, PLO 5, Round of Each and Bomb Pots. Cash games, around the clock. The games →
Not currently. When that changes it will be announced in the Journal and to the list first.
The minimum buy-in is Rs 10,000 at every table, across all four cash formats. Blind levels move with the table, so message the floor and we will tell you exactly what is running.
Rs 10,000, at every table.
We do not publish one. Ask the floor about the table you want.
Five, each seating up to nine players.
Yes, say so when you book and we will hold it if the game is running.
Usually short, and always stated honestly. The floor will give you a real number.
Ask the floor. Seat changes are honoured in the order they are requested.
Everybody in, blind, no preflop betting, and straight to the flop. In Round of Each, one runs after every round. It is the loudest the room gets and reliably the moment a first-timer relaxes.
Not at the biggest table on a Saturday. Start on Hold'em, watch a PLO table for an orbit, and tell the floor when you want to move.
missed-blinds and away-from-table policy
to confirm
Tell us it is your first night and someone will walk you through it before you sit. To read it beforehand, see Learn Poker.
Money.
Five per cent of the pot. There is nothing else taken: no time charge, no seat fee and no deduction at cash-out.
No. The rake is the whole of it.
Cash, UPI or bank transfer. Hand it to the dealer at the table, never across it, and chips come back.
Colour up, count down, and you are paid. Cash, UPI or bank transfer.
No. We do not extend credit, to anyone, ever.
Entirely your call. It is never solicited and never expected.
No.
