Introduction to California Slot Machine Casino Gambling in 2019

1. Pechanga Resort And Casino Player Club
2. Pechanga Resort & Casino Temecula
3. Pechanga Resort And Casino Veterans

California slot machine casino gambling consists of 66 tribal casinos, and many cardrooms spread throughout the state. California has the second-largest number of casinos of any U.S. state.

Since an Indian Casino is a full service casino and not a 'Card Casino' according to state law, the legal age is 18+. Those that decide to allow only 21+ are doing it as a business decision. It has nothing to do with drinking age - Morongo is 18+ and they serve alcohol.

Tribal-state gaming compacts for tribes in California have not set payout limits nor require return statistics to be publicly available.

This post continues my weekly State-By-State Slot Machine Casino Gambling Series, an online resource dedicated to guiding slot machine casino gambler to success. Now in its third year, each weekly post reviews slots gambling in a single U.S. state, territory, or federal district.

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Relevant Legal Statutes on Gambling in California*

The minimum legal gambling age in California depends upon the gambling activity:

• Land-Based Casinos: 18/21
• Poker Rooms: 18/21
• Bingo: 18
• Lottery: 18
• Pari-Mutuel Wagering: 18

The minimum gambling age for land-based casinos and poker rooms depends upon whether alcohol is served onsite.

*The purpose of this section is to inform the public of state gambling laws and how the laws might apply to various forms of gaming. It is not legal advice.

Slot Machine Private Ownership in California

It is legal to own a slot machine privately in California if it is 25 years old or older.

Gaming Control Board in California

The California Gambling Control Commission regulates gambling in card rooms. The CGCC also supports the regulation of tribal gaming through oversight activities as defined in 61 tribal-state compacts.

Further, the Bureau of Gambling Control within California’s Department of Justice provides the state law enforcement authority with particular jurisdiction over gambling activities.

Gaming control boards for other gambling activities include the California Horse Racing Board and the California Lottery Commission.

Casinos in California

There are 86 non-tribal card rooms with 1,970 tables, 66 American Indian tribal casinos, ten pari-mutuel racetracks without slot machines, and many international cruise ships based in California.

The largest casino in California is San Manuel Casino having over 4,700 gaming machines and 130 table games.

The second-largest casino is Thunder Valley Casino Resort having over 3,400 gaming machines and 114 table games.

Commercial Casinos in California

There are no non-tribal casinos with slot machines in California.

Otherwise, the California Gambling Control Commission maintains this list of licensed card rooms. A list of horse racing and training facilities is at the California Horse Racing Board.

Tribal Casinos in California

California’s 66 tribal casinos are:

1. Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Palm Springs, located 115 miles east of Los Angeles.
2. Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage, located 115 miles east of Los Angeles.
3. Augustine Casino in Coachella, located 125 miles east of Los Angeles.
4. Barona Resort & Casino in Lakeside, located 15 miles northeast of San Diego.
5. Bear River Casino Hotel in Loleta, located 10 miles south of Eureka;
6. Black Oak Casino Resort in Tuolumne, located 100 miles southeast of Sacramento.
7. Blue Lake Casino & Hotel in Blue Lake, located 10 miles north of Eureka.
8. Cache Creek Casino Resort in Brooks, located 35 miles northwest of Sacramento.
9. Cahuilla Casino in Anza, located 30 miles south of Palm Springs.
10. Casino Pauma in Pauma Valley, located 35 miles northeast of San Diego.
11. Cher-Ae Heights Casino in Trinidad, located 25 miles north of Eureka.
12. Chicken Ranch Casino in Jamestown, located 100 miles southeast of Sacramento.
13. Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino in Coarsegold, located 35 miles north of Fresno.
14. Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, located 40 miles northwest of Santa Barbara.
15. Colusa Casino Resort in Colusa, located 75 miles north of Sacramento.
16. Coyote Valley Casino in Redwood Valley, located 115 miles north of San Francisco.
17. Desert Rose Casino in Alturas, located 100 miles north of Susanville.
18. Diamond Mountain Casino & Hotel in Susanville, located 160 miles northeast of Sacramento.
19. Eagle Mountain Casino in Porterville, located 60 miles southeast of Fresno.
20. Elk Valley Casino in Crescent City, located 84 miles north of Eureka.
21. Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, located 125 miles east of Los Angeles.
22. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge in Oroville, located 100 miles north of Sacramento.
23. Garcia River Casino in Point Arena, located 130 miles north of San Francisco.
24. Gold Country Casino Resort in Oroville, located 100 miles north of Sacramento.
25. Golden Acorn Casino & Travel Center in Campo, located 40 miles southeast of San Diego.
26. Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park, located 50 miles north of San Francisco.
27. Hard Rock Casino & Hotel Sacramento at Fire Mountain in Wheatland, located 36 miles north of Sacramento – GRAND OPENING November 2, 2019..
28. Harrah’s Resort Southern California in Valley Center, located 35 miles northeast of San Diego.
29. Havasu Landing Resort & Casino in Havasu Lake, located 200 miles east of Los Angeles.
30. Hidden Oaks Casino in Covelo, located 150 miles northwest of Sacramento.
31. Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort in Jackson, located 50 miles north of Los Angeles.
32. Jamul Casino in Jamul, located 10 miles east of San Diego.
33. Konocti Vista Casino Resort in Lakeport, located 120 miles north of San Francisco.
34. Lucky 7 Casino in Smith River, located 100 miles north of Eureka.
35. Lucky Bear Casino in Hoopa, located 30 miles northeast of Eureka.
36. Mono Wind Casino in Auberry, located 30 miles northeast of Fresno.
37. Morongo Casino Resort Spa in Cabazon, located 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
38. Paiute Palace Casino in Bishop, located 130 miles northeast of Fresno.
39. Pala Casino Spa Resort in Pala, located 35 miles northeast of San Diego.
40. Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, located 50 miles north of San Diego.
41. Pit River Casino in Burney, located 190 miles north of Sacramento.
42. Quechan Casino Resort in Winterhaven, located 170 miles east of San Diego.
43. Rain Rock Casino in Yreka, located 250 miles north of Sacramento.
44. Red Earth Casino in Salton Sea Beach, located 114 miles southeast of Riverside.
45. Red Fox Casino in Laytonville, located 150 miles northwest of Sacramento.
46. Red Hawk Casino in Placerville, located 40 miles east of Sacramento.
47. Redwood Hotel and Casino in Klamath, located 65 miles north of Eureka.
48. River Rock Casino in Geyserville, located 75 miles north of San Francisco.
49. Robinson Rancheria Resort and Casino in Nice, located 115 miles northwest of Sacramento.
50. Rolling Hills Casino Resort in Corning, located 115 miles north of Sacramento.
51. Running Creek Casino in Upper Lake, located 120 miles northwest of Sacramento.
52. San Manuel Casino in Highland, located 65 miles east of Los Angeles.
53. San Pablo Lytton Casino in San Pablo, located 15 miles north of Oakland.
54. Sherwood Valley Rancheria Casino in Willits, located 130 miles north of San Francisco.
55. Soboba Casino Resort in San Jacinto, located 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
56. Spotlight 29 Casino in Coachella, located 130 miles east of Los Angeles.
57. Sycuan Casino & Resort in El Cajon, located 10 miles east of San Diego.
58. Table Mountain Casino in Friant, located 15 miles north of Fresno.
59. Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in Lemoore, located 50 miles south of Fresno.
60. Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, located 35 miles northeast of Sacramento.
61. Tortoise Rock Casino in Twentynine Palms, located 125 miles east of Los Angeles.
62. Twin Pine Casino & Hotel in Middletown, located 100 miles north of San Francisco.
63. Valley View Casino & Hotel in Valley Center, located 35 miles northeast of San Diego.
64. Viejas Casino & Resort in Alpine, located 25 miles east of San Diego.
65. Win-River Casino in Redding, located 163 miles north of Sacramento.
66. Winnedumah Winn’s Casino in Independence, located 90 miles east of Fresno.

Other Gambling Establishments

As an alternative to enjoying California slot machine casino gambling, consider exploring casino options in a nearby state. Bordering California is:

• North: Oregon Slots
• East: Nevada Slots and Arizona Slots
• South: The country of Mexico
• West: Pacific Ocean

Each of the links above will take you to my state-specific blog for that neighboring state to California.

Our California Slots Facebook Group

Are you interested in sharing and learning with other slots enthusiasts in California? If so, join our new California slots community on Facebook. All you’ll need is a Facebook profile to join this closed Facebook Group freely.

There, you’ll be able to privately share your slots experiences as well as chat with players about slots gambling in or near California. Join us!

Payout Returns in California

Tribal-state gaming compacts negotiated between the state of California and its 61 tribes do not include payout limits or require public reporting of return statistics.

Summary of California Slot Machine Casino Gambling in 2019

California slot machine casino gambling consists of 66 land-based tribal casinos, generally located in remote tribal lands throughout the state.

As negotiated by 61 tribes with the state, neither minimum or maximum payout limits are set for slot machines. Further, there is no public reporting of return statistics.

Annual Progress in California Slot Machine Casino Gambling

In less than a month from the time of this writing, Hard Rock Sacramento will open on November 2, 2019. Previously branded Fire Mountain Casino, construction had halted in 2016 due to a court order. After a name-change by its new operators, Hard Rock International, this tribal casino project was successfully revitalized and completed.

Otherwise, in the last year, two casinos changed their names and another permanently closed. These casinos are:

• Spa Resort Casino became the Agua Caliente Casino Palm Springs.
• Sho-Ka-Wah Casino in Hopland permanently closed.
• Hollywood Casino Jamul became Jamul Casino and is still operated by Hollywood Casino.

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Pechanga Resort & Casino Temecula

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By Jon H. Friedl, Jr. Ph.D., President
Jon Friedl, LLC

The Pechanga Resort & Casino is an Indian casino on the Pechanga Indian Reservation adjacent to the city of Temecula, California. Pechanga Resort & Casino is the largest casino in the state of California, with over 4,500 slot machines and approximately 200,000 sq ft (19,000 m²) of gaming space.^[1][2]

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History[edit]

On June 24, 2002, the $262 million Pechanga Resort & Casino opened its doors. The resort, which was designed to highlight the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians' culture, included an 85,000 sq ft (7,900 m²) casino, 1,200-seat showroom, 515,000 sq ft (47,800 m²), 14-story (522-room) hotel and 38,800 sq ft (3,600 m²) convention center, 200-seat cabaret lounge, Eagle's Nest Lounge and seven restaurants.

In November 2004, a 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m²) expansion was opened, adding additional gaming space, a high-limit gaming area, a food court area, a 54-table poker room and Kelsey's, a sports-themed restaurant.

Guests must be at least 21 to gamble on the property; the age limit was raised in 2003 from 18.^[3]

Casino[edit]

The Pechanga Resort & Casino has the largest casino floor in California totaling 188,000 sq ft (17,500 m²), larger than the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.^[4] It features more than 4,500 Vegas-style slot machines, a non-smoking casino floor area with 460+ slot machines, 130 table games, a non-smoking poker room with 43 tables, an off-track betting facility, an ultra-modern, 700-seat bingo facility, a 14,700 sq ft (1,370 m²) High Limit Gaming Area with High Limit Salon, and private gaming rooms.

Hotel[edit]

The Pechanga Hotel includes 1,085 guest rooms and suites as well as a sun deck with a swimming pool complex and spa, a poolside bar with food service, three retail shops, and a newly added Spa.

Spa Pechanga[edit]

In December 2017, Spa Pechanga opened a standalone, luxury two-level spa totaling 25,000 square feet and featuring 17 treatment rooms. The spa incorporates Native American healing botanicals into all of their treatments. Guests can book massages, facials, body treatments, hair and nail salon appointments, wellness visits and personal fitness and yoga coaching sessions at Spa Pechanga.

Restaurants[edit]

Pechanga has 20 bars and restaurants on its property.^[5]

Sports[edit]

Journey at Pechanga[edit]

The golf course, Journey at Pechanga, opened in August 2008, and the clubhouse opened in November.

In November 2008, a 62,000 sq ft (5,800 m²) clubhouse was opened. Journey was rated as the 4th 'Best New Course You Can Play' by Golf Magazine in the January 2009 issue.^[6] With the addition of Journey at Pechanga, the resort’s 146-acre (0.59 km²) footprint (including the facility, RV park, parking lots, and structures) has more than tripled to 445 acres (1.80 km²).

Live action sporting events[edit]

Pechanga Resort & Casino hosts live action sporting events such as Bellator MMA, professional boxing aired live on networks such as HBO and FOX and Muay Thai Kickboxing.^[7][8]

Entertainment[edit]

The Pechanga Showroom Theater, a 1,200-seat venue, has hosted Broadway musicals and headline musical acts, including Journey, Lita Ford, Warrant, Dirty Heads, Live (band), Collective Soul, Blues Traveler, Skid Row, 311 (band), Backstreet Boys, Bob Dylan, Carrie Underwood, The Fab Four (tribute), magician David Copperfield, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and many foreign artists such as Hong Jin-young.^[9]

Other entertainment venues at Pechanga include the Pechanga Comedy Club; the Cabaret Lounge; and Eagle’s Nest Lounge, located on the top floor of the original hotel tower.

Meeting and convention space[edit]

Meeting space at the facility consists of 274,500 square feet of flexible meeting and event space (100,000 square feet indoors and 174,500 square feet outdoors).^[10] This includes the 40,000 sq. ft. Pechanga Summit event center, an entire suite of breakout rooms on the resort's 2nd floor, a 22,000 sq. ft. Grand Ballroom, a huge outdoor event lawn, The Cove, Journey's End golf course clubhouse (which is very popular for weddings), and the rooftop Eagle's Nest nightclub/lounge and Eagle's View Ballroom.

Pechanga RV Resort[edit]

The adjacent Pechanga RV Resort features 210 sites.^[11]

Economic impact[edit]

Pechanga Resort & Casino is the Temecula Valley's largest employer with nearly 5,000 employees, and the second-largest private employer in Riverside County, behind grocery store chain, Stater Bros.^[12]

Pechanga Resort And Casino Veterans

References[edit]

1. ^'Spectacular Lot Half Mile Fro Lake in Riverside County, California'. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
2. ^'Pechanga CASINO'. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
3. ^'Minimum Gambling Age of California Casinos'. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
4. ^http://www.travelgolf.com/articles/san-diego-california-golf-13545.htm
5. ^https://www.pechanga.com/eat
6. ^Bradley Aidan (2009). 'The top ten new golf courses you can play'. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
7. ^'CBS Sports pro boxing puts championships on the line at Pechanga Resort & Casino'. iesportsnet.com. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
8. ^'Bellator MMA returns to Pechanga Resort & Casino'. pe.com. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
9. ^Hong, Jin-young (12 January 2019). 'hongjinyoung 홍진영 on Instagram:'. instagram (in Korean). sambahong. LA콘서트 끝 3천석 넘게 객석 가득 채워주신 여러분들 정말 너무너무 감사합니당^^ 저도 너무 행복하게 공연한거같아요☺️공연 마무리 셀카는 고생많이한 #잘태 #문재 #수지 #윤선 #예슬 #선영언니 #타이니오빠 함께ㅋㅋㅋ 여러분!! 오늘 #미우새 하는날이라면서용? #속닥속닥 이따봐요오옹 하뚜
10. ^http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/casinos/sd-et-casinos-expansions-20171203-story.html
11. ^https://www.pechanga.com/uploads/assets/RV-Pechanga-Map-v9-150-2018.pdf
12. ^Lallu Akso (2009-12-09). 'Pechanga Casino and Its Amenities'. Retrieved 2010-01-18.

External links[edit]

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