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Commerce Casino is a cardroom

Cardroom

A cardroom is a gambling establishment that exclusively offers card games for play by the public. The term poker room is generally synonymous, since the gambling games played in such establishments are typically, and sometimes exclusively, variations of poker such as Texas hold 'em....
located in the Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
suburb of Commerce

Commerce, California

Commerce is a suburb of Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population was 12,568 at the 2000 census. It is bordered by Vernon, California on the west, Los Angeles on the northwest, East Los Angeles, California on the north, Montebello, California on the east, Downey, California and Bell Gardens, Cal...
. With over 240 tables on site, Commerce Casino is the largest cardroom in the world. Established in 1983, the casino accounted for 38% of Commerce's tax revenues for the 2006-2007 fiscal year.

In addition to the main cardroom, the Commerce Casino complex includes a full service 200 room Crowne Plaza

Crowne Plaza

Crowne Plaza is a chain of full service, upscale hotels catering to business travelers and to the meetings and conventions market. The brand is owned by the InterContinental Hotels Group....
Hotel, which houses dining establishments, a day spa, beauty salon, pool and sundeck, banquet rooms, shops and entertainment.

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Commerce Casino is a cardroom

Cardroom

Los Angeles, California

Commerce, California

Crowne Plaza

Poker games

The Commerce Casino offers a wide variety of limit, pot limit and no limit

Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
poker games, including:

Seven-card stud
Seven-card stud

Seven-card stud is a List of poker variants of stud poker. Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country....
Texas hold 'em
Texas hold 'em

Texas hold 'em is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe, as well as online poker. According to Doyle Brunson and Johnny Moss, it was originally considered a variation of seven card stud, and was called "Texas hold 'em seven card stud" back in the 1920's....
Omaha Hi-Lo Split
Omaha hold 'em

Omaha hold 'em is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold 'em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make his best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards....

The casino spreads more Texas Hold 'em games than any other casino in the world. Games with limits of 1-2 and 2-4 are upstairs in the ballroom, while 3-6, 4-8, and 9-18 exist on the main floor, with larger limit games in the Hotel section. No Limit Hold 'em games have buy-ins as low as $40 and go much higher.

The Casino's bad beat

Bad beat

In poker, bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player, who had what appeared to be strong cards, nevertheless loses. It most often occurs where one player bets the clearly stronger hand and their opponent makes a poor call that eventually "hits" and wins....
jackpots sometimes grow into six figures. The jackpot amounts are doubled at regular times during the week. Between 11am-12pm and 7am-8pm and 1am-3am daily 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.

Poker tournaments

The Commerce Casino is home to several poker tournament series, 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
World Poker Tour

The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments featuring most of the world's professional players. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who now serves as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that controls the World Poker Tour....
event, a Professional Poker Tour
Professional Poker Tour

The Professional Poker Tour was a series of televised poker tournaments, spinning off from the World Poker Tour television series. It billed itself as the first professional poker league, and was limited to players who have established themselves on the World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, or major participation on the poker circuit....
event and the celebrity event, the World Poker Tour Invitational.

California State Poker Championship - Annual tournament, held every September since 2003. Originally held in June, the tournament was moved to avoid conflict with the World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
.

Heavenly Holdem - Annual tournament held in May. It is a tournament with smaller buy-ins where every event is Texas hold 'em
Texas hold 'em

Texas hold 'em is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe, as well as online poker. According to Doyle Brunson and Johnny Moss, it was originally considered a variation of seven card stud, and was called "Texas hold 'em seven card stud" back in the 1920's....
.

Holiday Bonus Tournament - Annual tournament held in November.

Non-poker games

Commerce also offers pan

Panguingue

Panguingue is a gambling card game similar to rummy. It used to be particularly popular in Las Vegas, Nevada and other casinos in the American southwest....
, No Bust blackjack

Blackjack

Blackjack is the most widely played casino game banking game in the world. Much of blackjack's popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting ....
, Caribbean stud poker

Caribbean stud poker

Caribbean stud poker is a casino table game with rules similar to five card stud poker. However, unlike standard poker games, Caribbean stud is played against the house rather than against other players ....
, 21st Century Baccarat

Baccarat

'Baccarat' is a casino game card game. It is believed to have been introduced into France from Italy during the reign of Charles VIII of France , and it is similar to Faro and to Basset....
, Pai gow poker

Pai gow poker

Pai Gow poker is an Americanized version of Pai Gow . The games of Pai Gow poker and Super Pan-9 were created by Sam Torosian and Fred Wolf....
, Super Pan Nine and 13 Card (Chinese poker

Chinese poker

Chinese poker, also called Russian poker or Pusoy , is a card game that has been played in the Asian community for many years. It has begun to gain popularity elsewhere because it has many features of an "exciting" gambling game:...
).

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