The Commerce was the first casino to try and steal the Asian players away from the many Indian casinos. A staggering number of the,mostly Chinese SGV residents take daily coach trips to the casino. The casino usually offers free play approx double the bus fare. Thus a $20 ride offers $35-$40 in free play.
I used [...]
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Commerce loses race for customers
Friday, April 5th, 2013Final Nine at the MegaMillions
Thursday, March 28th, 2013The FT of the MegaMillions is less than two hours away.For as little as $125 one of the nine will drive home with $200k. One of the nine,Peter Hengsakul,already has a six figure score on his www.thehendonmob.com db.The rest have just a smattering of small buy in cashes.The most prolific is Phong Nguyen,aka Turbo.However, Turbo [...]
Million $ Mo
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013Whilst the PartyPoker Premier League has dominated my twitter,@Britpokergossip , account @MoTheBikeTD has gambled on a $1m guarantee for a mere $125 buy in. Not for the first time. This time the casino cat didn’t have to play to make up the numbers.
Sure it was a multi re entry giving the MenArmy 22 bullets to [...]
Bay 101 increases field size
Thursday, March 17th, 2011The racing at Golden Gate may suffer from micro fields but Matt Savages annual Bay101 tournament has increased its field size by almost 25% this year over last. 415 players entered,or were invited as bounties, to play.The winner will pick up a cheque for $1m. Surinder Sunar ,obviously not a horse racing fan , flew [...]
No free lunch but a free shuttle to Commerce
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Both the Commerce casino and Hollywood Park casino have started a free shuttle service from, the Chinese/Vietnamese populated, San Gabriel valley area. In these times of $4 gas the convenient service is a godsend (or Devilsend). The shuttle to the Commerce departs Valley/San Gabriel at 6:30pm and leaves the Commerce at 10:40pm. The shuttle to [...]
Pokerstars NAPT returns to the Bike
Sunday, March 6th, 2011It is a really beautiful day in L.A. The plan was to attend Big Cap Day at Santa Anita for my free cap. However, I watched the Man City v Wigan game on T.V. and I was hungry. Where better to score a free lunch than the Bike when the Team Pokerstars are footing the [...]
HoHo the end is near
Sunday, December 12th, 2010First of all “Get well soon” to post op Scott Diamond who has helped keep this blog alive. Happy birthday to Warren Karp, a fellow Sagi.
I decided the Bike would be busier today than tomorrow when just the final four tables of the ME merge.Also they always have FoxSoccer on in the coffee shop,Legends.
Today was [...]
Everyone’s a Nguyener part two
Monday, December 6th, 2010I know I have used the headline pun before but once again the Vietnamese have dominated a tournament at the Bike.The tournament had a prize pool of $231830 with 813 entries over three evenings The results as follows:
1) Kevork Kozakjian $87k
2) Ben Nguyen $34k
3) Turbo Nguyen $17k
4) Xuan Nguyen $11k
5) Mak Uskolovsky $8.8k
6) James Pittman [...]
It feels like Wednesday
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010So I made my way down to the Bike expecting the final table of the $50k guarantee only to find the Day1 of the evening tournament.It feels like a Wednesday to me the way my week has unfolded.The week is in Turbo mode.
Only six qualifiers from the Noon part of the guarantee,which had a pool [...]
Live from the cozy Bike
Monday, November 29th, 2010A cold wind outside but the heat is on in the Events Center with two final tables in action. First to finish was the NLHE $10k guarantee.A one day tournie with Jacky Lee going for back to back but out in third.
The shoeshiners are out in force tonight.Almost three tables of them. Maybe the end [...]
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