A coworker and I were just spent from a long week so we decided to drop by a local bar after work on Friday to let off some serious steam. After several beers, we decided to go to one of those underground poker rooms. I txt messaged a friend who happened to be in France and sleeping, but being the trooper he is, he replied back and went back to bed. Somewhere in Chelsea in a slightly run down office building, we found ourselves in front of 2 large black men asking us if we had been there before. I flinched and said "no." My coworker looked at me and it became apparent I had blown our chances of getting in. We were rejected because you need to know someone to get in because these aren't really legal establishments. Right before we got into the elevator, the door to the poker room opened up and it looked like a scene out of rounders.
My coworker realized he knew of a place that got shut down over a year ago but could have reopened. So we went uptown to give it a shot since we had a poker urge. That's when the night turned weird. In a towering office building, we entered a room filled with senior citizens playing cards. It looked like a bingo room. Off to the corner was a poker table that no one in the room really cared for except the people at the poker table. We walked over and said hello to everyone. After paying the $30 fee for the night to play, I threw down $200 to test the waters. As I sat for the next couple of hours, I looked around and thought to myself, this is the Twilight Zone. We were surrounded by senior citizens, half of whom appeared to have hip replacements based on their limp. My table had multiple scuffles, including a married couple that had an all out war of words with the husband leaving to object his wife. I sat next to this black guy who kept talking about his "hoes" and the other guy next to me was old and kept hollering at me for the way I played. I just sat there thinking, where am I? If the cops came, would they bust the entire retirement home that surrounded me?
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