Tiger Tours the Tables in the USA - Table of Contents

11/15/99 monday

The Commerce Casino

the commerce casino is located on telegraph road, just off the washington boulevard exit of interstate 5 (santa ana freeway). there's parking all around the place.

The Poker Room

the commerce club is huge. it's the biggest cardroom that i can recall in my memory. they've got all games and all limits. they spread as much seven- card stud (high) as any east coast cardroom. there are separate rooms for asian games (pai gow tiles and pai gow poker, etc.), the so-called "california games" (21st century blackjack, california baccarat, etc.), pan9, pan and, of course, poker.

Chips

i didn't take many notes here. there's lots of games and lots of action. i noted that this club has a very different color coding for chips (i think that all of the los angeles clubs use the same color system). $1 chips are blue (purple?). $2 chips are green. $3 chips (used for the drop and for those screwy 9/18 games) are black-and-orange. nickel chips are yellow. they use dark yellow (brown at hollywood park) for $10 chips, and gray for $25 chips. $100 chips are white. all of them are those dratted "speed chips." i put my name on a 6/12 stud list, but found an open seat at a 15/30 stud game. i sit down.

15/30 Stud - Bank Robber?

there's a maniac on my immediate left, who raises indiscriminately and almost constantly. there are several calling stations on the other end of the table. it would be a dream, but i'm not well-placed. but after the maniac busts out, i move one space to my left, and start to win back my chips which the maniac has given away. play at this table is loose, loose, loose. a woman named shyrlee sits down on my right, and she and i and richard (on my left) become friends. shyrlee just loves my story about my cross-country trip, and richard keeps denying that he's a bank robber. he does it so often and so sincerely, that i become convinced that he really *is* a bank robber! :) cash plays at this limit, and my meal is comped.

i win a couple stacks of yellow (for my east coast friends, this means a couple stacks of reds) in a couple hours. i had a good time at the commerce. :)

i paged "mr. topset" and "mr. liveone" but there was no response. :( nobody won a tropicana poker club jacket. :(

back to the motel to freshen up and it's off to the normandie!

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