Lake Elsinore Hotel & Casino

Year Opened

1968

Age Restriction

21+

Property Type

Licensed Card Room

Regulator

California Gambling Control Commission

Table Games

6

Poker Tables

16

Owner

Ted Kingston

About Lake Elsinore Hotel & Casino

Lake Elsinore Hotel & Casino sits at 20930 Malaga Road in Lake Elsinore, California in the foothills east of the I-15 corridor between Corona and Temecula. The property opened in 1968 and has operated as a licensed card room under the California Gambling Control Commission / Bureau of Gambling Control — making it one of the longer-running card rooms in Southern California. Ted Kingston co-owns the operation, and the venue carries a high-confidence directory rating: phone numbers at (951) 674-3101 are active, the property’s promotions and events pages are live, and the loyalty program (“Club Rewards”) tiers from platinum through base membership.

This is one of the few California card rooms in Southern California that pairs a hotel directly with the gaming floor. Most California card rooms do not have a hotel attached — players gamble, then leave. At Lake Elsinore you can book a room and walk directly onto the casino floor without crossing a parking lot to a separate building. The hotel, pool, restaurant, bar, grill, spa, and self-parking make the property self-contained for an overnight or weekend stay. Valet parking is not listed.

Like every California card room, the table games operate on the state’s player-banked model — the house cannot bank any table game. A contracted third-party proposition player covers settlement on each table, and players may be offered the banking role on a rotating basis.

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Table games

Lake Elsinore Hotel & Casino carries eight game types across the table-game floor and the racebook and the poker room.

Spanish 21 is the standout — a blackjack variant where player blackjacks always beat the dealer’s blackjack and late-surrender rules apply. Off-track betting and the Racebook give horse-players two dedicated wagering options — the OTB runs through California’s pari-mutuel system, and the Racebook covers trackside action, making this a dual-purpose stop for gamblers who play both the ponies and the cards.

Crazy 4 Poker and Let It Ride are novelty pit games; neither has the same player base as blackjack, but they fill out the lower-stakes table spread. The room does not carry slot machines, electronic keno, or video poker in our data — it is a pure card-room floor.

Poker room

The poker room is the property’s anchor feature — 16 tables running four poker variants: 7 Card Stud, Limit Hold’em, NL Texas Hold’em, and Omaha. 7 Card Stud is the rarity here: fewer Southern California card rooms spread stud these days as the format has contracted to primarily East Coast and Midwest casino markets. Players who prefer the draw-hand dynamic and the up-card / down-card betting rounds will find a seat at Lake Elsinore.

The Hold’em tables run both Limit and No-Limit — the standard formats for most cash-game players. Omaha fills out the four-game spread. Sixteen tables means weekend tournament brackets should run without displacing all cash action — the room has the capacity to handle both simultaneously.

Amenities

The hotel plus pool, restaurant, grill, bar, and self-parking make the venue self-contained for an overnight trip — something most Southern California card rooms cannot offer. The Club Rewards loyalty program tiers from base through platinum and includes players club access with comps across the gaming floor. Promotions and events pages on the property’s website remain active.

How Lake Elsinore Hotel & Casino compares locally

Lake Elsinore is the only card room listed in our directory for the Lake Elsinore area. The nearest tribal casino alternatives are Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula — a full resort tribal operation with 17 game types — and Pala Casino Resort & Spa roughly 25 miles south. Both are significantly larger than any California card room and operate under Class III compacts rather than the card-room licensing framework.

★ Editor note

A 1968-vintage card room with a hotel and a Stud table

Lake Elsinore Hotel & Casino runs one of the few hotel-attached card rooms in California. Sixteen poker tables with Texas Hold'em, Omaha, and Stud — the biggest Southern California card-room poker section outside of Los Angeles and San Jose — combined with a racebook and off-track betting make this a multi-reason gambling venue. The Poker Room is the flagship draw; Stud and off-track betting make the stop distinctive.

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Priya Sharma

Responsible Gaming Editor