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Can anyone give me a clue? I usually never drive up to London but I am taking my son and some friends to a gig tomorrow night in Brixton. Where is the nearest cash poker game? 1/2 hold em is fine.

Cheers

Al

across the river

http://www.equal-chance.co.uk/

In the centre of town - Empire/Hippodrome/Fox round Leicester Square or the Vic on Edgware Road.

But I wouldn't drive there.

What's the gig?

a 159 bus will pretty much take you door to door to door

No idea m8. But it ain't Neil Diamond so I am dropping them at 6 ish and picking them up at 1130. If I can park anywhere I will get tube to Hippo I suppose. Not been there so would like to give it a go. I will try and find some parking on the web.

Ouch. Alexisonfire. Much rather shoot myself than listen to that rotflmfao

Don't they have poker at the new Aspers in Stratford?  You could park the car and take a 10 minute tube ride to there from North Greenwich.

of course

by far the best suggestion

That sounds ok. So I just gotta sort parking out. Thank you.

The gig is in Brixton (at the O2 Academy), not at the O2, (or indeed the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire). Dear O2, these venues had perfectly good names already before you started confusing people.

Tube from Brixton > Stockwell > Leicester Square is best bet.

Have a look at the Hippodrome, but don't know how busy games will be at 7ish on a weeknight. If it's quiet, the Empire will definitely have games going.

Papa Gascoigne was telling me how good the games are at the Hippodrome. Definitely sounds like it's worth a visit, and if the games aren't running then you can just pop over to the Empire.

All games are good for Papa Gascoigne.

True.

Thanks all of you.

Gonna dump car and head for the bright lights of the Hippo/ Empire on the tube.

Perfect.

Dumped the rock fans at Nandos right opposite tha academy and found a red zone bay by stockwell tube station and jumped on northern line straight to the hippodrome basically.

Cracking casino with a couple of really nice bars with loads of staff. In fact 10/10 for drinks and club sandwich. Poker room is a bit cramped and I had to keep getting up to make way for players and dealers. Either a player or dealer had really bad b.o. for the first 40 minutes I couldn't quite work out which dirty bastard it was. Nearly went to the empire but it disappeared when a pretty lady with her bosom nearly pressed up to her chin sat to pitch the cards.

Really good game with limpers everywhere and 1 good player sat on my left but he was pretty tight and easy to avoid. You Londoners have got it made. Guys just kept sitting down with £200 and may as well of tossed it in the bin. Then they get their coat and another one sits down. Another fella who I presume is a reg as he seemed to know how to handle chips had an awful habit of limping with monsters. I had more fun watching him play overpairs against 6 players on wet flops than I have in ages!

Definately will return to the hippo. Can't see Pokerstars doing any big games there though. Not much room.

Al

That was exactly how Papa G explained it, virtually word for word!