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Graton Resort and Casino in Rohnert Park, California, offers free “dealer” school for potential new hires. CA residents over the age of 21 who can work holidays and weekends can now attend a free casino dealer school to learn some essential skills before starting a new career as a croupier in the gambling industry. Once students complete … Read more

While we generally cover California casinos — specifically of the online variety — the only real gambling news in the Golden State of late has to do with sports betting. Sure, there’s that whole kerfuffle between the tribal casinos and CA car rooms, but that’s more of a back-and-forth back-burner thing. It’s going to be … Read more

With the start of the 2023 NFL season (or the end of it, if you’re a Jets fan), the nation’s most populous state is still on the outside looking in when it comes to legal domestic sports betting. In 2022, it was looking like a sure thing that the Golden State would join the ranks … Read more

Nowhere are tribal casinos more powerful – at least en masse – than in California. And that makes sense, as CA is the birthplace of the tribal casino concept, which spread nationwide after the watershed 1997 California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians court ruling. However, that tribal power is being tested in recent years … Read more

As we get closer and closer to the November election that will see California residents vote on two different gambling expansion bills (which we’ve already discussed at length here and here), the anti-gambling lobby is finally coming out of the woodwork. With a shade over six weeks to go before domestic CA sports betting is … Read more

With the 2022 Midterm elections coming up, one state – California – has a lot more on the ballot than the usual mundanity. This year, the state is considering two separate gambling-related referenda: Proposition 26 and Proposition 27. So far, interested parties have spent a staggering $362 million on lobbying the state – and the public … Read more

After Nevada, California has the most casinos in the United States. But aside from a few new openings and other standard annual events – or in this case, “back to business” events before, inevitably, everyone closes up shop again around election time because of some COVID-monkeypox “double threat” – there’s not that much going on. … Read more

A major new California casino could be coming to the Golden State in the near future. On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a gaming compact with the Tejon Indian Tribe of California, allowing the tribe to partner with the Seminole Tribe of Florida on a major gambling project. The CA gaming compact – which … Read more