The Top Poker Rooms in the U.S.
If you like to play the horses as well as play poker, then the Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood, California may be as close to heaven as you’ll get while still breathing. Located next to the Hollywood Park Racetrack—the first U.S. casino to have such a location—the Art Deco-styled facility underwent that typical Hollywood transformation, a facelift, in 2003/2004.
Boasting the world’s largest neon sign (which spells, appropriately enough, “Casino,”) and the largest charity bingo hall west of the Mississippi River, the Hollywood Park Casino also has one of the most active poker rooms anywhere. With about 6 dozen poker tables, the room features daily poker tournaments (featuring Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo, No Limit Hold’em and Shootout, Omaha Hi-Lo), and an assortment of major poker tournaments (including the Poker Derby, the Sport of Kings and the National Championship of Poker.)
Like many major casinos in the U.S., the Hollywood Park features a host of nearby amenities, including an always-open health club with massage rooms, a beauty salon and barber shop, a night club, banquet facilities and more. Some consider the Hollywood Park to be one of the “big three” poker rooms in the U.S., the other two being the Commerce Casino and the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles.
The Casino is also home to the Mike Caro University of Poker, whose “Advanced School of Winning” teaches “poker strategy and psychology.” Once considered the master of draw poker and now a spokesperson for the Hollywood Park Casino, Caro says poker is a game of skill that should have its own curriculum. And, in addition to “poker strategy and psychology,” Caro teaches…in this school, and in a book…the fine art of poker cheating, of recognizing cheating, and of giveaway poker “tells.” For both poker and Hollywood, a key to succeeding is faking it.
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