2019/2020 WPT L.A. Poker Classic: Commerce Casino Commerce, CA. As well as coverage from all major poker tournaments in the world. As well as years of data of poker player results. Typical Friday night at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. Usually the 40 No limit tables offers the BEST kind of entertainment. For only 40 bucks (theoretically) you can see the beauty of Poker.
| Commerce Casino | |
|---|---|
| Location | Commerce, California 90040 |
| Address | 6131 East Telegraph Road |
| Opening date | August 1983 |
| Theme | Assyrian/Babylonian[1] |
| No. of rooms | 200 |
| Total gaming space | 91,694 square feet (8,518.7 m2) |
| Casino type | Land |
| Owner | California Commerce Club, Inc.[2] |
| Renovated in | 2001 (hotel addition) |
| Website | www.commercecasino.com |
Commerce Casino is a cardroom located in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce. With over 240 tables on site, Commerce Casino is the largest cardroom in the world.[3] Established in 1983, the casino accounted for 38% of Commerce's tax revenues for the 2006-2007 fiscal year.[4] As of 2016, the casino was providing $22 million a year in licensing fees to the city.[5]
In addition to the main cardroom, the Commerce Casino complex includes a full-service 200-room Crowne Plaza Hotel, which houses dining establishments, a day spa, beauty salon, pool and sundeck, banquet rooms, shops and entertainment. The Commerce is also home to several restaurants and host to live boxing, MMA and Professional Wrestling events. Commerce Casino opened a Playboy-themed gaming lounge in 2014.[6]
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Poker[edit]
The Commerce Casino offers a wide variety of limit, pot limit and no limit poker games, including:
The casino spreads more Texas Hold'em games than any other casino in the world.[citation needed] Commerce spreads hold'em games as low as 2-3 and 2-4. 3-6, 4-8 & 6-12 exist on the main floor, with 8-16 and larger limit games in the Hotel section. No Limit Hold 'em games have buy-ins as low as $40 and go much higher. There is a new $5/10 $500/$1500 spread No Limit Hold'em game which was first created in 2008.
The Casino's bad beat jackpots sometimes grow into six figures.[citation needed] Commerce Casino offers a $100,000 Super Jackpot for Hold 'em.
Players can bring members of a home game to the Casino and they will provide game instruction, dealers, a pit boss, cards, chips and poker snacks. The 'home' games act as live cash games and are eligible for jackpots.
Classes[edit]
The casino offers free poker lessons on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Beginner classes are Tuesdays from 8 pm to 10 pm and intermediate classes are held on Thursdays from 8 pm to 10 pm. Registration is available at the company website. The instructor is Roger Rodd 'Poker Comedian and Poker Instructor to the Stars.'
Tournaments[edit]
The Commerce Casino is home to several poker tournament series,[7] including:
- Los Angeles Poker Classic - Annual tournament beginning in January and running through early March. This is Commerce's major tournament of the year, involving a World Poker Tour event, a Professional Poker Tour event and the celebrity event, the World Poker Tour Invitational.
- California State Poker Championship - Annual tournament, held in May. Originally held in June, the tournament was moved to avoid conflict with the World Series of Poker.
- Commerce Hold 'em Series - Annual tournament held in September with smaller buy-ins where every event is Texas hold 'em.
- The L.A. Poker Open - Annual tournament held in November.
Restaurants[edit]
The Commerce Casino is home to several eating establishments,[8] including:
- Wood Dragon Restaurant - Chinese cuisine, the restaurant is located in the Main Lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
- The Arena Sports Bar & Grill - Offers a variety of International cuisine with entertainment, live sporting events and karaoke on various nights. Located in the hotel near the Hi-Limit Section.
- The Commerce Cafe - Near the Main Poker Room offering Traditional American cuisine, pastries and Starbucks hot and iced coffees.
- Tableside Dining
California games[edit]
Commerce also offers Pan, No Bust Blackjack, 3 Card Poker, Let It Ride, Caribbean Stud Poker, 21st Century Baccarat, EZ Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Super Pan Nine and 13 Card (Chinese poker).
Games besides poker, such as the ones listed above, are called 'California Games' and have been modified to conform to California state gambling laws. The primary difference between California Games and normal casino table games is that the player does not play against the house but rather plays against a third party provider that banks the games. California law requires that all non-poker games at the Commerce Casino or any California card room are player-banked, meaning players play only against one another, and never against the house. Any player that regularly banks the 'player banked games' and does not have a contract with the casino to do so will be barred from the casino. The Commerce serves as a host for these games, providing a venue for their play and benefits indirectly off the gambling revenue through 'rent' payments from the third party provider. The casino also charges a collection to play the game usually 1% of the bet wagered (rounded up to the nearest dollar) for hosting these games.[9]
Off-Track Betting[edit]
The Racebook at Commerce Casino opened in July 2009, featuring mini satellite wagering from California and Eastern U.S. race tracks. There is no admission fee.
Popular culture[edit]
- In 'So Close, Yet So Far', the second episode of the AMC television series, Fear the Walking Dead, an aerial nighttime shot of Los Angeles in the early stages of the zombie apocalypse shows the casino and hotel tower engulfed in flames next to a gridlocked Santa Ana Freeway.
- A comedy sketch promoting the casino was featured in First Night 2013 with Jamie Kennedy, a New Year's Eve television special hosted by comedian and television producer Jamie Kennedy.
- In Twin Peaks the return, the casino was featured as the Silver Mustang.
Notes[edit]
Commerce Casino Poker
- ^Commerce Casino Media KitArchived 2006-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, p. 14
- ^Ibid.Archived 2006-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, p. 15
- ^Two Rags review
- ^City of Commerce 2006-07 complete budgetArchived 2007-02-21 at the Wayback Machine, p. 4
- ^Elmahrek, Adam (September 7, 2016). 'Mountain resorts, rent subsidies and saunas: The benefits of living in a city plagued by scandal'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- ^'Lucky Rabbit Party Pit Playboy Poker Room'. The Commerce Casino. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ^Commercecasino.com: TournamentsArchived 2009-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Commercecasino.com: RestaurantsArchived 2011-06-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^California Games and Jackpots
External links[edit]
Coordinates: 33°59′54″N118°08′41″W / 33.998407°N 118.144587°W
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Commerce Casino is located about 5 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, just off the 5 freeway in the city of Commerce, California. The Commerce Casino’s poker room is the biggest by number of tables in the world with more than 200 tables. This enormous room is internationally famous, mainly due to its association with many major poker events. The Commerce is a glamorous destination for the World Poker Tour — hosting the WPT L.A. Poker Classic and the star-studded WPT Celebrity Invitational every year. High-rolling pros such as Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth are on the honor roll of final-tablists at these events. Famous faces are always darting around throughout the Commerce and serve to cement its status as a world-leading venue. The Heartland Poker Tour Gold Rush series also comes to the Commerce. This event gives mid-stakes players access to huge prize pools for small buy-ins.
The Commerce Casino is truly immense. Only the Rio’s Amazon Room is comparable for the amount of action that can be spread in one place, with thousand-person tournaments able to run here alongside cash games. The Commerce poker room is so large that each quadrant has its own information screen to give information about the games that are running. Speaking of which, the Commerce is the only venue in the state to simultaneously spread the classic no-limit hold’em, limit hold’em, and PLO cash games at a variety of buy-in levels with a bewildering array of other games. Pineapple, crazy pineapple, and razz run regularly, plus mixed games, split-pot games, and so much more. High rollers can escape the rush of the giant poker room by retreating to the dedicated high-stakes room. More than 40 tables sit here, with stakes soaring as high as $400-$800 in the no-limit hold’em game. The Commerce high-stakes room also follows the global trend for open-face Chinese poker and regular Chinese poker as big-time gamblers play for dizzying amounts per point.
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