Play safe · before and after

Keep the night a game

Seat time keeps running whether you win or lose, and the room can stay open until 4 a.m. A few habits keep a night at the club affordable, and if it has stopped being fun, the helpline is free and confidential: 1-800-522-4700.

Folded bills going into an envelope on a kitchen table at night, beside a phone, a car key and a mug. — Tonight's limit goes in the envelope; the rest stays home. Illustration drawn for Loot Brook.

Count the fees before the chips

Seat time is charged whether you win, lose or fold every hand. Six hours of any game except $1/2 NLH is 6 × $12 = $72, plus $10 for the day, before your buy-in. Our cost calculator adds it up for your usual night.

Decide your number at home

Pick the most you will put on the table tonight before you leave the house, and bring only that. House rule 63 makes you buy back in for what you took off if you return to the same game within an hour, so a break doesn't reset anything.

Late nights on I-20

The contact page lists closing time as 4 a.m. The club is BYOB. If you drink, plan the drive home before the first glass, or don't drive.

If it stops being a game

Call or text the National Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-800-522-4700, or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat. It is free, confidential and open 24/7, and it is the number the club itself prints. In a crisis call 988 or 911.

Gamblers Anonymous lists local meetings at gamblersanonymous.org.

We found no self-exclusion program on the club's site. Its agreement lets the club end any membership, so you can ask the floor to refuse you entry, but get that in writing.

Age

The club admits members 21 and over. This guide is for readers 18 and over; reading it does not change the club's rule.