For the First Time Since 1995, New Card Rooms Can Open in California

January 10, 2023 | By: Cheryl Coward

For nearly 28 years, California had a moratorium on adding new card rooms in the state. However, a new day has arrived. The moratorium expired Jan. 1, 2023. Essentially, the moratorium banned new card rooms from opening in California. That means, for the first time since 1995, new card rooms are allowed to open in […]

Chumba Casino Releases New Progressive Jackpot Slot: Fu Qian Qian

January 9, 2023 | By: Matthew Bain

Chumba Casino, one of the most popular social online casinos in California, has released its 137th slot game. And it’s a progressive jackpot. Fu Qian Qian is a five-reel online slot game with three rows of symbols. As of this writing, it’s progressive Sweeps Coins Grand Jackpot was up to 81,500 SC and its progressive Gold […]

California’s Spotlight 29 Casino to Sponsor PGA Event Until 2028

January 9, 2023 | By: Matthew Bain

A premier Southern California Indian casino will gain national recognition by sponsoring a PGA event through 2028. The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians has agreed to become the official tribal casino and hotel sponsor of the PGA Tour’s American Express Golf Tournament. Through this partnership, the tribe’s main casino, Spotlight 29 Casino, will have its […]

Chumba Casino Releases New Online Slots Game: The Trolls’ Treasure

January 6, 2023 | By: Matthew Bain

Chumba Casino released its 136th and newest California online slots game this week: The Trolls’ Treasure. It’s a standard, five-reel online slot machine with 50 lines to win. The minimum bet for each spin is 500 Gold Coins (GC) and 0.01 Sweeps Coins (SC), making one basic spin cost 25,000 GC or 0.50 SC, depending on which […]

Sign Up for Global Poker Monsterstack Series II: SC1,000,000 in Prizes

January 6, 2023 | By: Matthew Bain
Looking for a California online poker tournament? From Jan. 9-22, Global Poker is running Monsterstack Series II, a 14-day online poker extravaganza with guaranteed prize pools of GC400,000,000 and SC1,000,000. There are 28 Gold Coin (GC) events and 28 Sweeps Coin (SC) events. GC can only be used in Global Poker games. SC, however, can be redeemed for [...]

Why a Las Vegas Company Bought a Tiny California Town for $2.5 Million

January 5, 2023 | By: Dan Holmes

A Las Vegas-based entertainment company has purchased the California town of Nipton, a former mining community, with the intention of making it a circus town. Spiegelworld has paid a reported $2.5 million for Nipton, located in Ivanpah Valley in San Bernardino County, only an hour drive from Las Vegas. According to its website, the privately […]

California Officially Lists 66 Indian Casinos. There’s Actually 70.

January 5, 2023 | By: Chris Gerlacher

Things can be a little confusing when it comes to how many Indian casinos are in California. As of September 2022, the California Gambling Control Commission listed 67 casinos in California. However, one of those listed casinos — Sho-Ka-Wah Casino — is permanently closed. So, the most accurate tally is 66. But that’s only counting […]

Win-River Resort & Casino Relocation: Is It Going to Happen?

January 4, 2023 | By: Dan Holmes

The future of Win-River Resort & Casino in Redding, California, is up in the air. In late December, the Redding City Council voted unanimously to oppose the proposed move of the Win-River Resort & Casino to tribal-owned property near the city that many feel should remain agricultural land. The federal government will decide the issue. […]