It was never a back-room game, really, because the sheriffs accepted it as a part of life in French-speaking Louisiana, like accordion music and turtle soup.
Most obliged, and then, as in a scene out of a movie, Stanley was taken into a back room before the game and ceremonially obliterated with bats.
It flaunts two front-of-house televisions and one in the back room, and for Green Bay Packers games, Mr. Daley goes so far as to drag out six more.
Last week, a federal judge in Brooklyn overturned the indictment of a Staten Island man who ran poker games in the back room of a warehouse, on the grounds that poker is a game of skill, not chance — and hence, such games cannot be prosecuted under federal laws prohibiting illegal gambling businesses.
Gorey wrote several children's books and dozens that appealed to the child in many; the back room has question-and-answer games about animals on desks suitable for kindergartners (Gorey was an active advocate for animal welfare).
The bartenders, who sometimes wait on tables, are perfectly friendly, the decor of boar's heads and cattle skulls is distracting, and the table soccer game in the back room can be endlessly entertaining.
When that rookie, Cory Schneider, coughed up two goals on his own turnovers and then went into full body spasm in giving up the tying goal in the third, they had to summon Luongo out of a back room (no joke) to enter the game, in a twist Darren Eliot of SI.com is still trying to get his head around.
Fischer would likely have forfeited the entire match, but Spassky, not wanting to win by default, yielded to Fischer's demands to move the next game to a back room, away from the cameras whose presence had upset Fischer.
The business, like a back-room poker game, seems continually on the move.
Perry and Lurie got to know each other in the early nineties, at the SoHo restaurant Lucky Strike, where they both played in the back-room poker game.
I see you in your shirtsleeves asking an ancient bellhop where a man could find a little female companionship; I see you in some back-room card game, fleeced by professionals, and little caring, as you had come to play at a bigger table.
