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Hollywood Park Casino is a casino and sports bar in Inglewood, California. Originally part of the Hollywood Park Racetrack, the casino moved to a new building in 2016 after the closure and demolition of the racetrack in 2013.

History[edit]

In 1994, a casino called the Hollywood Park Casino, with a pokercard room, was added to the Hollywood Park Racetrack complex.^[1] The original casino owners were the Hollywood Park Operating Co., which also owned the race track. Afterwards the casino went through a series of owners including Churchill Downs. The racetrack was sold and shut down in December 2013 though the casino operations continued while the current casino building opened in October 2016.^[1][2] The casino is part of the Hollywood Park development which also features SoFi Stadium, home to the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League and will later include multiple housing, business parks, luxury hotels, a movie theatre, and an open-air shopping center. It was the first building of the complex to be constructed and opened.

Stockbridge Capital Group[edit]

The current owners are Stockbridge Capital Group, a San Francisco-based land developer which purchased the casino and then the racetrack in 2005 for nearly $260 million. Stockbridge, in addition to owning the casino, is also the land developer for the former racetrack site and a joint partner in the NFL stadium. It is planned that the new casino, entertainment complex and NFL stadium will improve the finances of the casino, which had been on a downturn since the Los Angeles Kings and Los Angeles Lakers left The Forum in May 1999.

New Casino building[edit]

The Hollywood Park Casino contains 125 tables for both Poker and California Games including chandelier lighting and big-screen HD televisions on the walls. There are separate rooms for high-stakes players and celebrity poker tournaments. It also features high scale sit-down restaurant and sports bar called Century Bar & Grill. Like its predecessor, only card games are allowed in the casino.^[3]

Off-track betting[edit]

Located in the casino is the Hollywood Park OTB which continues from the former track. It features races from all over North America and Australia on big screens.

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abFast, Erik (October 21, 2016). 'Hollywood Park Casino's Grand Opening Oct. 21'. Card Player (October 21, 2016). Retrieved December 28, 2019.
2. ^Mazza, Sandy (August 9, 2016). 'Take a peek inside the new Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood before it opens'. Daily Breeze. Digital First Media. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
3. ^Martin, Hugo (July 7, 2016). 'Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood aims to turn around its fortunes with new digs'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 28, 2019.

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I spent the pre-Christmas holiday in California on business. Landed at LAX around 2 PM on Tuesday. After we landed, I convinced my better half to visit Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood. Wow, the traffic is horrible. The casino is not far from LAX, but the constant red lights at every intersection, combined with molasses-like traffic and a wrong turn, due to construction messing with the GPS, meant it took an hour to get the Hollywood Park Casino.

That’s L.A. traffic, although, it’s not as bad as New York traffic.

Christmas in California is not like the rest of the country. Even in late December, it’s ‘shorts and t-shirt’ weather.

Make no mistake, though. It was Christmas, and you could tell by the decorations in the casino.

Hollywood Park Casino is a California style player-banked casino. Buses bring in players from all over the Los Angeles area.

The casino is very nice, with nice touches to draw in the affluent gambler.

The casino is not allowed to bank, rather, the casino earns its’ money by charging a fee every hand. The fee is $1 per hand per $100, and is paid as an ante. So if the player wants to bet $200, the ante is $2. This ante is paid per hand regardless of the outcome. If the player wins, loses, or pushes the fee is still paid. It’s a bit frustrating to score a 21 and then have the ‘dealer’ tie. Well, you didn’t lose the hand, but you lost the ante.

Table games are the usual casino games, but with twists, such as No Bust Blackjack and player banked baccarat and Pai Gow Poker.

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There are no games that use dice or balls, such as craps or roulette. Hollywood Park did not have card craps.

If the player chooses to bank, the banking player must also pay a flat $3 ante.

The player banking issue is quite interesting. Even though the game is player banked, the actual players rarely, if ever bank. At each table, there is a ‘player’ who is clearly marked as an employee of a ‘corporation’, who acts as the banker. This ‘player’ has a large amount of chips and is not playing with their own personal money, allegedly.

From my observation, the corporation was making money hand over fist. If the players would have followed optimal strategy, the players would have an advantage of .56% before the ante (citation from Wizard of Odds). Most players played horribly, thus giving an edge to the corporation player.

I’m not going to go into details of the ‘corporation’ or the rules of the game. That’s a report, in and of itself. If you want to know about the rules and how the corporation works, read this: https://wizardofodds.com/games/california-blackjack/

I sat down at a blackjack table and asked to bank. The ‘corporate’ player threw up a fit and started saying passive aggressive things to me. I argued back and said that according to the rules, I have a right to bank. I found it strange that in a ‘player’ banked casino, no players were banking, while an alleged ‘non-profit’ corporation would pay a player to bank every hand, then when I asked to bank, I was given resistance.

Same thing happened at the baccarat table when I asked to bank. I was given push back and passive aggressive looks from the corporate player and dealer.

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The California card rooms are currently facing a lawsuit from the Native American tribes who run their own casinos. From what I saw and experienced, the card rooms are effectively banking their own games by deploying a loophole and intimidating players from banking.

If you live near the area, and you insist on getting your gambling fix, it’s worth a trip. Just be sure that you know the rules of the game very well, or else you will be at a severe disadvantage. It’s not worth a flight across the country, or even from another city. There are better gaming options at the Native American casinos.

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