Commerce Casino: A Happening Place

by Allyn Jaffrey Shulman |  Published: Jan 01, 1999

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Commerce Casino is a happening place! Just drop by and you might see the likes of Jerry Buss, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ben Affleck, Leonardo Di Caprio, Toby McGuire (Spiderman), baseball great Alex Rodriguez (the highest paid athlete in American sports history, known as A-Rod), or a myriad of other stars playing in one of the big games. Commerce now spreads a number of $400-$800 games regularly, including H.O.E. (hold'em, Omaha , eight-or-better stud), razz, hold'em and Omaha , and other combo games.

Thanks to the World Poker Tour and Internet poker, Commerce Casino enjoys many new customers, according to Casino Host Jerry Stensrud. The casino is so busy that Stensrud recalls a day when all 160 poker tables were in use, so the casino was forced to use the tall blackjack tables to spread additional poker games in order to accommodate all of the clamoring customers wanting to play poker!

Commerce Casino invites you to come and play in the games $15 or higher and they will graciously feed you for free. In the top section recently, there were four $400-$800 games, two $100-$200 stud games, three $80-$160 hold'em games, and eight $40-$80 games going, besides all the smaller games. Thanks to poker on TV, you will also find a host of no-limit games being played night and day. Can't sleep? Come on down and play some poker, observe your favorite celebrity, and enjoy a nice meal.

Allyn Jaffrey received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Irvine in 1977, where she graduated cum laude and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa for scholastic achievement. She is a practicing criminal defense attorney, having received a Juris Doctorate with scholastic merit from Western State University where she served as Research Editor and Executive Editor of Law Review in 1982-1983. She has lectured all over California, teaching other attorneys the fine points of criminal defense. She specializes in legal research and her areas of expertise include the filing of extraordinary writs, appeals and motions where a lower court judge commits legal error or where the police or prosecutors engage in misconduct. Allyn has been closely following the development of gaming law and the Internet ever since Jay Cohen was convicted in New York of operating a sports betting business from Antigua in violation of the Wire Act.


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