Sometimes those games would include some very big-name celebrities. He said he occasionally rented out the place for up to a week at a time for high-stakes private games (like $5,000 buy-in cash games and the like). It seemed he wasn’t too interested in making it very tourist-oriented, which I can completely understand. It seems it is pretty small, and known primarily to a regular handful of locals. The owner seemed interested in how I’d found about the place.

They’d also occasionally get a $50-or-so tournament going. He said they would usually get a $1-$2 no-limit hold’em game going, and a few times a week they’d get a $2-$5 game. I introduced myself to the owner, whose name was Saed, and he told me the games didn’t get started until usually 9 or 10pm. It had a nicely appointed bar, and several big screen tv channels going. The place was pretty small, with two tables, with maybe room for four. I was the only one there besides the owner. I made my way there on a Wednesday, at 8pm or so. The sign said it opened at 6 pm, and was closed on Tuesdays, so I had to return later that night. The building’s sign definitely got my interest, with its depiction of a shark sitting across the table from a donkey (see the picture at top).

So it made me wonder if I had stumbled across a semi-private high-stakes game. I figured it couldn’t have been a very tourist-y place if I couldn’t find anything online. I asked several bartenders if they knew about the place, and most people had never heard of it, and also were under the impression that there was nowhere to play poker on the island.Īll of this mystery definitely got me curious. It was not far from the main market area of the Charlotte Amalie bay, where the cruise ships dock. It didn’t have a website that I could find, or a phone number, but it had directions to it. But I did find, on a nightlife-themed website, a small mention of one place advertising a “high-stakes poker night” the place was called Sharky’s Bar and Grill. Croix to find a poker game at the casinos there. A lot of people said that there was no place to play cards on St. I couldn’t find hardly anything online searching for ‘St.

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