The Bicycle Casino

About The Bicycle Casino

The Bicycle Casino — widely known as The Bike — is a California-licensed card room at 7301 Eastern Avenue in Bell Gardens, California, owned by Hashem Minaiy. The property has operated continuously since 1984, making it one of the longest-established card rooms in the Los Angeles area. The floor runs 130 poker tables and 45 table game positions on a 24/7 schedule, with a fitness center, nightclub, pool, restaurant, spa, self-parking, and valet on site. Gaming is regulated by the California Gambling Control Commission and the Bureau of Gambling Control. The minimum gambling age is 21. Website: thebike.com.

Bell Gardens is a city in southeastern Los Angeles County, roughly eight miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles via I-710 or I-5 and I-605. The Eastern Avenue address in Bell Gardens has been the home of The Bicycle Casino since 1984, a period that has seen the California card room industry evolve from early Gardena and Bell Gardens rooms through the Proposition 37 debates of the 1980s and the full regulatory overhaul under the California Gambling Control Act of 1997. The Bike was one of the early Los Angeles–area rooms to capitalize on the expanded game menu authorized by California following legal clarifications in the 1980s and 1990s.

At 130 poker tables, The Bicycle Casino is among the largest poker rooms in the United States by table count. It has hosted major tournament series, celebrity poker games, and television productions that have contributed to its standing in the national poker landscape. The California card room model — player-banking, the collection of a time charge or house fee per hand rather than a house advantage against players — governs all games at The Bike as at all California card rooms.

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Poker Room

The Bicycle Casino’s 130-table poker room spreads 7 Card Stud, Limit Hold’em, Mexican Poker, Mixed Games, No-Limit Hold’em, and Omaha cash games with a year-round tournament calendar.

No-Limit Hold’em is the dominant format in the room and anchors the largest portion of the 130 tables across multiple stakes levels — from small-blind games accessible to recreational players to mid- and high-stakes tables. Limit Hold’em remains in the spread at The Bike, where it has historical roots in the Southern California card room market and retains a regular player base.

7 Card Stud is available at a limited number of California card rooms; at The Bike, it reflects the historical breadth of the room’s poker menu and appeals to players who came up in the pre-Hold’em dominance era. Omaha runs in both Omaha Hi and Omaha Hi-Lo configurations depending on current scheduling. Mixed Games at The Bicycle Casino rotate through multiple formats — H.O.R.S.E. (Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven-Card Stud, Eight-or-Better) and other combinations — making the room one of the few California venues where serious mixed-game players can find consistent action.

Mexican Poker is a California card room–specific stud variant played with a 44-card deck (8s, 9s, and 10s removed). Each player receives one face-up card and one face-down card; the face-down card is mandatory wild. Players then receive additional exposed cards in the standard stud dealing sequence. The compressed deck and mandatory wild structure create different hand frequencies than standard Stud and are specific to California and Mexican gaming tradition. Mexican Poker is uncommon even in the California card room market.

Table Games

Beyond the poker room, The Bicycle Casino runs 45 table game positions including 21st Century Baccarat, 21st Century Blackjack, 3 Card Poker, Chinese Poker, EZ Baccarat, Fortune Pai Gow Poker, Pai Gow Poker, Pai Gow Tiles, Super Pan 9, and Ultimate Texas Hold’em.

21st Century Baccarat and 21st Century Blackjack are California card room player-banking adaptations in which a player (or the house through a third-party banking arrangement) banks the game rather than the house maintaining a direct house advantage. Under California law, the casino cannot bank games directly; all California card room games require player-banking or commission structures.

Pai Gow Tiles uses the traditional 32-piece Chinese domino set — one of the oldest gambling instruments in existence — requiring players to form two tile hands from four pieces and beat both of the banker’s two hands. Pai Gow Tiles is offered at a small number of Southern California card rooms and retains a primarily Chinese-American player community. Super Pan 9 is a California-specific game played with a 36-card deck (7s through 9s removed) in which players draw cards to reach a total as close to 9 as possible without exceeding it — similar to Baccarat but with an active player draw decision. Chinese Poker is a 13-card poker variant in which players arrange their 13 cards into three hands of 3, 5, and 5 cards and compete against other players’ three-part hands.

Amenities

The Bicycle Casino’s amenity stack includes a fitness center, nightclub, pool, restaurant, spa, self-parking, and valet. The nightclub and entertainment facilities have historically hosted poker celebrity events, television productions, and major tournament series that extended the property’s presence beyond the gaming floor. No hotel is part of The Bicycle Casino’s property; overnight visitors use area hotels in Bell Gardens and the surrounding southeast Los Angeles market.

The fitness center and spa add a wellness component that positions The Bike beyond a pure gaming destination for regular patrons who spend multiple sessions per week at the property. The pool and restaurant provide additional amenities for extended visits. The combination of nightclub, pool, and spa at a card room is characteristic of the larger California card room operators that have invested in comprehensive entertainment and hospitality infrastructure.

Location

The Bicycle Casino is at 7301 Eastern Avenue in Bell Gardens, California. From Los Angeles, I-710 south to the Florence Avenue exit, then east to Eastern Avenue, is the standard approach — approximately 8 miles from downtown. I-605 north from Orange County provides access from the south. The Eastern Avenue address is on the Bell Gardens–Downey border corridor. Self-parking and valet are on site.

★ Editor note

130-table poker room with Mexican Poker, Mixed Games, and Pai Gow Tiles — one of the largest card rooms in the US

The Bicycle Casino earns its landmark status through sheer poker room depth: 130 tables running NL Hold'em, Limit Hold'em, 7 Card Stud, Omaha, Mixed Games, and Mexican Poker simultaneously gives The Bike a format variety that few US poker rooms can match. The California card room table game menu — Pai Gow Tiles with Chinese dominoes, Super Pan 9, and 21st Century variants — offers access to formats not available outside California's licensed card room system. The property has been at 7301 Eastern Avenue since 1984 and has hosted major poker events and television productions over four decades. Confirm current game spreads and tournament schedules at thebike.com.

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Priya Sharma

Responsible Gaming Editor