Six commercial poker clubs in Gardena, California, are surveyed in Table 37. Those six clubs provide 210 poker and pan tables with 1680 seats. Throughout California, 400 licensed poker clubs have a potential capacity of 14,000 tables and 112,000 seats. State licensed poker parlors are also found in Montana, Oregon, Washington, and other states.

Thirty-three major casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada, are surveyed in Tables 38 and 39. The growing interest in public poker and the attractive profit margins possible from a well-run poker operation have caused sharp increases over the past few years in the number of poker tables in Nevada casinos. In addition to the more than thirty major poker rooms in Las Vegas, at least forty additional casino poker rooms exist in other cities and towns in Nevada. And major casino poker rooms are found in Reno at Cal Nev, Circus Circus, Harold’s Club Harrah’s, Horseshoe Club, MGM Grand, and Sahara Reno: and in Lake Tahoe at Park Tahoe and Sahara Tahoe.

Notes on draw games

• By law, only draw games are allowed in California card clubs
• High draw is played with fifty-two cards. Low draw is played with fifty-three cards using the joker as a wild card.
• Jacks is draw poker that requires a pair of jacks or better to open. California is draw poker that can be opened on anything.
• High low is not a split-pot game, but is high draw with aces to open. If the pot is not opened, the game switches to low draw.
• Blind open means the player on the dealer’s left must bet. Blind raise means the player to the left of the blind opener must raise.
• Razz played in Gardena poker clubs is not lowball stud, but is a blind, lowball draw game in which the winner of the previous pot bets last and may be required to double the blind bet
• Pan (Panguingue) is not poker, but a form of rummy that requires less skill than poker. Pan is of little interest to good poker players.