We wrote this page in plain English on purpose, the same way we'd explain it to you across the bar. It covers the website, table requests and the card room, so give it a read before you book.
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The basics
Who we are and what this site does
Happy Mood Club is run by Happy Mood Club Hospitality Ltd, a New Zealand company at 17 Towey Street, Holmes Hill, Oamaru. The site exists to show you the menu, tell you when the poker nights run and take your table requests.
Browse it, send us a booking request, forward a page to a mate who's visiting town: all fine. Scraping the site, lifting chunks of it or pretending to be us is where we draw the line.
Menus, hours and event details are here for information. If the site and the phone disagree, trust the phone.
Nothing here is a contract. It describes what we do, not a promise we can't keep on a bad-weather Tuesday.
Under 18? The restaurant pages are yours. Everything past them about the poker room isn't.
House rules
These terms sit next to our privacy policy and the cookie page. Between the three of them you get the whole picture.
Bookings
A request isn't a booking until we call back
Every form, book button and event enquiry on the site sends us a request. A person reads it and rings you, and that phone call is the booking.
Same rule for dinner tables, private nights and poker seat bookings. If forms aren't your thing, ring +64 3 442 7196 and skip straight to the call; it's how most poker seats get held anyway.
The diary we actually work from.
You send a request
Form, phone call or a word at the bar. Give us a date, a head count, and whether you're after the dining room or a poker seat.
We ring to confirm
We call the number you left and lock it in. Can't reach you? The request lapses. We don't hold seats on silence.
Plans change? Tell us early
A quick call the day before frees your seat for the waitlist. It matters most at the card tables, where one empty chair is a lighter game for everyone else.
No-shows are the one thing that genuinely stings a small venue. Book a poker seat or a Saturday table and skip it without a word, and you've taken a spot from someone else. We keep a mental note of the repeat offenders, politely.
The card room
Poker has its own house rules
The dining room welcomes everyone. The poker floor behind it is strictly 18+. No exceptions, and we'll ask for ID if we don't know your face.
Every game here is in person. You sit across the felt from the people you beat, the dealer calls the rulings, and chips settle on the night.
House rules are posted inside the card room and cover everyone who sits down, regulars included.
The dealer and floor manager make the calls during play. Arguing past a ruling ends the night early.
We can refuse entry or ask anyone to leave. Drunk, rough or rude doesn't get a second warning.
Formats for tournaments and cash games get explained before cards go in the air. If anything's unclear, ask the dealer first.
Please note: Happy Mood Club is not an online casino or betting platform. All poker is in-person, social, and venue-based: no online play, no remote betting, nothing over the internet.
What's on this site
Our words and photos stay ours
Everything here, from the writing and photography to the logo and menus, belongs to Happy Mood Club Hospitality Ltd.
Sharing is fine
Link to our pages, tell people about us, screenshot the menu to sort out dinner plans with friends. That's what it's for.
Ask before you reuse
Want one of our photos for the paper, a review or your own site? Email us first. We usually say yes, we just like being asked.
Republishing isn't on
Copying whole pages, menus or photos into your own website or listings crosses the line. Same goes for using our name to hint we're involved in something we're not.
The legal bit
Where our responsibility ends
We're a restaurant and card room, not an insurance company. This is the honest version of the part most sites write in Latin.
If any of it raises a question, ask us before your visit. It's easier sorted over the phone than across a table.
New Zealand law sets the frame for all of this. Nothing below tries to wriggle out of rights you already hold under the Consumer Guarantees Act or the Fair Trading Act.
We keep menus, hours and event details as current as we can, but service moves faster than the website. A typo on a menu page isn't a binding offer, so if it looks off, ring us and check.
A confirmed table is held for you and we plan the night around it. Running late? Ring us. A full house on a Saturday can't hold a seat forever, but we'll always do what we can.
We run the room, the tables and the dealers. What you bring to a poker table and what you do with your chips is your call. We can't cover losses, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Coastal weather, supplier no-shows, a power cut mid-service: sometimes the night changes shape. We'll always tell you what's happening and find the next best option, but we can't be liable for losses caused by things we didn't cause.
Play responsibly: poker should feel like a social night out, never like chasing a loss. Set yourself a limit before you sit down. If it stops being fun, for you or someone you know, tell us, or reach the Gambling Helpline on 0800 654 655.
Sometimes we link somewhere else, like the map pin for Towey Street. Those sites belong to other people and play by their own rules. A link from us isn't us vouching for everything they do.
When the terms change
We update this page when something shifts: new services, new rules in the card room, clearer wording. Whatever's published here is the current version. If a change would affect a booking you already hold, we'll tell you directly rather than make you re-read the page.
Questions
Something unclear? Ask us
If a line on this page doesn't make sense, or you need something in writing for a private event, get in touch. The people who answer are the same people who run the floor.
happymoodclub@gmail.com: email's best for anything you want in writing.
+64 3 442 7196: the phone rings in the venue while we're open.
