This card room is closed
Normandie Club at 3612 West 6th Street in Gardena, California is permanently closed. The property opened in 1947, owned and operated by Larry Flynt’s, and ran under a California Gambling Control Commission / Bureau of Gambling Control card-room license for decades in the heart of the Los Angeles County card-room corridor. The phone at (213) 263-2709 and email at info@thenormandieclub.com served guests during operations.
At its peak Normandie Club ran a 53-table floor — a large-scale California card room by any standard — with a notably deep baccarat and Asian-facing game spread that reflected Gardena’s position as one of the densest card-room markets in the country. The property’s website at thenormandieclub.com and its Facebook and Instagram pages remain online as historical records.
Normandie Club at a glance
A Gardena landmark since 1947 — now closed
Normandie Club was one of the anchor card rooms in Gardena's dense card-room market, running 53 tables with a deep baccarat lineup and a 24-table poker room. Larry Flynt's owned the property. Hustler Casino — also Flynt-owned and operating in Gardena — is the nearest open alternative for players who want the same ownership group and a similar card-room experience in the same city.
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Normandie Club
Gardena, California
Games — what was on the floor
Normandie Club carried eight game types — a spread built around one of the deepest baccarat lineups in the California card-room market.
Games at Normandie Club (directory listing)
- Buster Blackjack
- Caribbean Stud Poker
- Dragon Bonus Baccarat Commission Free
- EZ Baccarat
- Pai Gow Poker
- Pai Gow Tiles
- Panda 8 Baccarat
- Pure Blackjack
The baccarat lineup was the floor’s calling card — Dragon Bonus Baccarat (commission-free with a bonus on winning by a natural or by 4+ points), EZ Baccarat (no commission on banker wins), and Panda 8 Baccarat (side bet on a three-card banker 8) gave Gardena’s large LA County card rooms player base three distinct ways to play baccarat. Pai Gow Poker and Pai Gow Tiles served the Asian-facing table-game segment alongside the baccarat tables.
Buster Blackjack added a dealer-bust side bet with escalating payouts on multi-card busts. Pure Blackjack and Caribbean Stud Poker rounded out the non-baccarat side of the floor. The poker room ran 24 tables with No Limit Hold’em. All games operated on the California player-banked model — third-party proposition players covered settlement on every table.
Location & access
Normandie Club occupied a site at 3612 West 6th Street in Gardena, California — the geographic center of Los Angeles County’s card-room corridor. Gardena sits roughly 15 miles south of downtown Los Angeles via the 110 freeway. The city is home to one of the densest concentrations of licensed card rooms in the country, with Hustler Casino blocks away and Commerce Casino and The Bicycle Casino within a 15-minute drive.
Where Gardena card-room players can go now
What the directory data shows
Strengths and gaps inferred from games, features, and peer count in our CSV-backed directory — not a substitute for a property visit.
Strengths
5- 8 game types — deep baccarat lineup with Dragon Bonus, EZ, and Panda 8
- 53 table games — large-scale floor for a California card room
- 24-table poker room with No Limit Hold'em
- Opened in 1947 — decades of operation in Gardena
- Valet and restaurant on site
Watch-outs
4- Property is closed — Hustler Casino is the nearest open alternative
- No hotel on site
- Sports betting not legal
- 2 card rooms in Gardena; Hustler Casino is the only active one
Licensing & Rules
- Age Requirement
- 21++
- Sportsbook
- Not legal
