Casino Poker Club — Restaurant in Redding

I'm sure I'm going to get hell from them next time I go in because they're a small group. However, I've had great experiences there when losing money and terrible experiences when making money. This last time tonight about 30 minutes and I broke even and had one of worst experiences ever yesterday when I doubled my money and also had one of my worst experiences when doing alright. Yet, when I lost all of my money I bought in with at previous times or busted out in a tournament I had some of the most fun ever.

Tonight though... I showed up around 10:15. I had to work late, so I showed up, bought in for 400 and started playing. Made some new friends and things were going fine. However, they had 2 other tables that had 8-9 people at it. Whenever someone left tables 1-2 (I was at 3 apparently) they kept taking someone from our table down to where there was only 4 of us. Finally they took one more and left it down to 3 so I left. On my way out I said it's not much fun playing on a 3/5 table with only 3 people as you're small or big blind every other hand. The bald guy said "Well you should have showed up earlier and then you could have gotten moved to the bigger tables". That's the stupidest answer I've ever heard and wouldn't expect anything different from a place where the owner regularly sits down with a huge stack and starts bullying 3/5 tables with 100-120 bets pre-flop. The workers regularly site down and groups of friends constantly communicate with each other in the middle of hands in front of the dealers and they just let it happen. It's absolutely ridiculous and unscrupulous. I just want to play some live poker and they almost never have any 1/2 or 2/3 tables open (which is still stupid sized... but whatever).

When I said that they had two 9 man tables and then one with 3 he said they're not 9 man tables they're 8 man tables, as if that made it any better. They could have taken 1 from each, given us a 5 man table and still had 7 man tables at the other two. But instead they just misbalanced the tables and they left people with HUGE stacks versing others with normal size stacks.

I'm up money here overall, but still one of the worst places I've ever played at and unfortunately I'll still probably go back because it's either here or drive even farther to Win River Casino or play online with a VPN which I don't trust because of all the people using Game optimization tools like GTO Wizard etc.

Super unfun and they're just not polite or decent with the exception of David. I complained about one of their dealers during a tournament saying I was her least favorite person there and getting mad at me yelling at me for not realizing how much work it is for her when I said I liked that during the tournaments it was hand dealt rather than auto shuffled as it is during regular play. I wasn't even talking to her and then she was flirting with other players while dealing, slapping at their hands as they pretended to grab chips from her dock and laughing as if it was funny. Some of the least professional workers and one of the worst owners I've ever met and I used to play at the Oakland card rooms...

I love this place, it’s been my go to for many years, it has everything you need for a good time at a fair price. Ami, Danny and Marci behind the bar are fantastic, polite and quick. The food is always delicious and fresh, I have never had a bad meal here. My go to clam chowder bowl always hits the spot and i normally split that with a lucky burger with my favorite crinkle fries with jalapeño ranch, so good. Also has the best karaoke in town with Brandy, I love it when she has the opportunity to sing herself, if you get the opportunity you will be in...

Overall this is a very welcoming and fun atmosphere place to play cards. They have blackjack (dealt from a shoe) and 3 card poker. They also have 5 tables that are available for poker. The food is always good (chicken tacos are great) Bartenders are always good about running drinks even if its busy in the bar in front. Which is always good fun, especially if you like karaoke 🎤. Overall it's a great place and 10x better than win river if...