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Old 10-12-2011, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk View Post
Playwrights Restaurant was nice. The first floor is your average tourist-friendly Irish pub, and the 2nd floor was a combination bar and OTB. Booths with screens, big screens behind the bar, decent enough pub food and an okay beer selection. I really miss it.

But, yes, the average NYC OTBs were armpits and that was on their good days.
Less face it, all they need is a place where the non-computer people (NYRA account holders) can converge, place bets and watch the races. In Jersey the establishments are very nice, but truthfully I would rather just stay in my own house and play from there.
For the most part, they aren't building these parlors for the people with the NYRA accounts, they are building them for the so called armpit people who don't play anymore because they have no access to bet the races.
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