Commerce Casino

About Commerce Casino

Commerce Casino is a California-licensed card room at 6131 Telegraph Road in Commerce, California, operated by California Commerce Club, Inc. since 1983. The property runs 160 poker tables, 83 table game positions, a restaurant, self-parking, and valet on a 24/7 schedule. Gaming is regulated by the California Gambling Control Commission and the Bureau of Gambling Control. Phone: (323) 721-2100; email: casino@commercecasino.net.

Commerce is a small industrial city in Los Angeles County along the I-5 and I-710 corridors, approximately 8 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to Vernon, Bell, and Montebello. The Telegraph Road address is easily accessible from the LA freeway grid, drawing from the East LA, Southeast LA, and San Gabriel Valley markets simultaneously. At 160 poker tables, Commerce Casino is one of the largest poker rooms in the United States by table count, and the largest in the greater Los Angeles area.

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Poker Room

Commerce Casino’s 160-table poker room spreads 5 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo, Five Card Draw, Limit Hold’em, Low Ball, Mexican Poker, Mixed Games, No Limit Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, and Razz.

The 160-table scale is the primary fact about this room. At that count, Commerce can run multiple simultaneous games at multiple stakes across a dozen formats without any game becoming hard to find. Players arriving specifically for a niche format — Razz, Stud Hi-Lo, or Mexican Poker — can expect a table to be running rather than waiting for one to be called.

Razz is the lowball form of 7 Card Stud in which the lowest hand wins, aces play low, and straights and flushes do not count against the low hand. It is one of the games in the H.O.R.S.E. rotation and is rarely spread as a standalone game outside major card rooms. Low Ball at California card rooms typically refers to Ace-to-Five California Lowball, a draw poker variant in which the lowest hand wins and the joker plays as the lowest unpaired card in any hand. Mexican Poker is a 5-card Stud variant played with a 41-card Spanish deck (stripped of 8s, 9s, and 10s), with one face-down and one face-up wild card per player. It is deeply established in the Los Angeles card room market, particularly among players with ties to the Mexican-American communities of the region.

7 Card Stud Hi-Lo (often 8-or-better) splits the pot between the highest and lowest qualifying hands. Five Card Draw is the classical draw poker game in which players receive five hole cards and may discard and replace any number. Both are absent from the majority of Southern California card rooms and are sustained at Commerce by the volume of action the room generates.

Mixed Games rotation at Commerce typically includes a H.O.R.S.E.-style or dealer’s choice format cycling through multiple game types — the exact rotation varies by table and time of day.

Table Games

Commerce Casino’s 83-table game floor spreads 21st Century Baccarat, 21st Century Blackjack, 3 Card Poker, Blackjack No Bust, Chinese Poker, Double Hand Poker, EZ Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Pai Gow Tiles, Pan, Super Pan 9, and Ultimate Texas Hold’em.

Pan (also Panguingue) is a rummy-style card game played with eight stripped decks, historically popular in Los Angeles-area card rooms since the mid-20th century. Super Pan 9 is a descendant format drawing from Pan tradition, played with a stripped deck, in which players aim to form hands totaling nine (or as close to nine as possible) — comparable in scoring structure to Baccarat but using a different deck and player agency model. Both Pan and Super Pan 9 have their deepest California roots in the Los Angeles area.

21st Century Baccarat and 21st Century Blackjack are California card room adaptations of their respective games, designed within the player-banking model. Standard Baccarat and Blackjack require a house bank; California card rooms use a rotating player banker or a designated third-party banker. The 21st Century formats preserve the core rules while complying with California’s prohibition on house banking.

Chinese Poker is played with standard 52-card decks in which each player receives 13 cards and must arrange them into three separate hands — a three-card front hand, a five-card middle hand, and a five-card back hand — scored individually against each opponent. It is a skill-based game and appears at relatively few California card rooms outside the major LA-area venues.

Blackjack No Bust is a California card room variant removing the dealer-bust loss mechanic. Pai Gow Tiles is the traditional Chinese domino game using a 32-piece set, considered the more technically demanding variant relative to Pai Gow Poker.

Promotions & Contact

Commerce Casino maintains a promotions and tournament calendar. The property runs regular tournament series including major no-limit events. Social channels: Facebook, Instagram, and X (@CommerceCasino). Phone: (323) 721-2100; email: casino@commercecasino.net.

History

Commerce Casino opened in 1983 on Telegraph Road in Commerce, California under California Commerce Club, Inc., making it one of the oldest continuously operating card rooms in the greater Los Angeles area. The property established itself as a destination for the East LA and Southeast LA gaming market over the following decades, and the poker room’s expansion to 160 tables cemented its position as the highest-table-count card room in Southern California.

The Los Angeles area card room market developed through the late 20th century as California law permitted licensed card rooms while prohibiting Nevada-style house-banked gaming, creating a distinct poker and player-banked table game ecosystem. Commerce Casino grew within that framework, leveraging its location on the heavily trafficked I-5 and I-710 corridor to draw action from across the LA basin.

How Commerce Casino compares locally

★ Editor note

The LA card room benchmark — 160 tables and 12 poker formats

Commerce Casino's defining feature is scale: 160 poker tables running 12 formats simultaneously, including game types — Razz, Mexican Poker, Five Card Draw, Low Ball — that have largely disappeared from the Los Angeles card room market outside this property. For mixed-game players, the depth of the poker menu at Commerce is matched nowhere else in Southern California. The 83-position table game floor, with Pan, Super Pan 9, Chinese Poker, and 21st Century Baccarat alongside the standard lineup, further differentiates the property. The Telegraph Road location on the I-5/I-710 grid makes it accessible from across the LA basin.

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Priya Sharma

Responsible Gaming Editor