The main spoiler here for me, was the fact that it felt like it could have been a bit more spacious, and in a better area. I feel a bit for them - if you didn't know the place was here, you would probably never find it. The area it's in seemed close to empty, with nothing inspiring around them.
Thankfully, however, that's a double edged sword. It meant that the place wasn't crowded, and free of any undesirables whilst we were there.
As Leon mentioned already, they were doing a BOGOF on the pear kopparberg, which in true Yelper style, went down a hoot. They were pricier than many places I've been, on a one-for-one basis, but as soon as you have a group willing to all go for them, their value rocketted.
The manager was very nice with us, going through it all and engaging us all in one way or another. Whilst I felt he could have been a little more confident on the rules, and explained at the beginning that it was using some slightly unconventional rules to keep the game moving faster (not resetting the minimum bid each round of bets) rather than after a couple of hours of people randomly disagreeing with it, then it would have been perfect.
In addition to our poker table, they also had a lot of pool and, seemingly (though I didn't check it out) snooker tables, too. All it needs is indoor smoking, and I could truly call this place my own.
There was discussion of maybe, when we have enough people, doing an all out hiring of the downstairs, and just having a few hours of people doing whatever they wanted - swapping between talking, playing their choons on the jukebox (and groovin' out accordingly), poker playing and pool/snooker playing. I find this incentive enough on its own to do whatever we can to find more people, because I think it's a lovely reason to come back.
Last but not least, we saw some interest in Yelpers on the poker tournament Leon C mentioned here. Cheap buy in for what is promised to us to be a relaxed and fun game of poker, running once or twice per week or two. Perhaps this could almost be a regular event, for some of us. Definitely has my vote. read more