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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