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Betting on Aces and Third Base

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Brendan Puthoff is building a nightlife empire out there. Third Base sports bar hit a home run on West Sixth Street, and, Wednesday, a Round Rock edition opened. Sports bars can go very wrong — witness the otherwise promising Ringers on Colorado Street — but Puthoff has found a formula that appears to work.

Meanwhile, he’s prepping the former Hard Rock Cafe on East Sixth Street as a chic nightclub, an even trickier gambit. We reported here a few months ago that the club would be called Aces. We now hear it will also feature a full-time burlesque troupe, jazz nights on Fridays and Saturdays, as well as creative dance + rock ‘n’ roll shows on Thursdays.

It sounds like Aces will join high-end lounges such as Qua, Pangaea, the Belmont, Buzios Room and others on the downtown nightlife scene, but it include more live entertainment. Neo-burlesque has been an Austin staple for years. We’ll see how Puthoff melds it with a modern nightclub concept. We’ll report.

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