This casino can be very crowded on weekends especially for bingo where you may see several hundred people parked out on long tables playing this game. After visiting the following cardrooms, some several times – we have noticed that the patrons tend to be mostly Asian locals and tourists.Ĭrystal Casino & Hotel is located off of the 91 freeway in Compton about 10 minutes from LAX and or downtown Long Beach. Often tour operators or cardrooms maintain their own fleet of buses which service select communities within Los Angeles and Orange County – providing free transportation to and from the cardroom. If you are intimidated by card games – the cardroom landscape of Los Angeles might be a bit challenging and perhaps Vegas would be a better option (if slot machines are what you are after). As of our last update, several cities within Los Angeles County allow casinos including Bell Gardens, City of Commerce, Compton, Gardena and Inglewood. These cardrooms do not have slot machines, rather their focus is on card games including but not limited to blackjack, poker and bingo. Rather these businesses are cardrooms, but each cardroom cleverly has decided to incorporate the word casino in their names (which is misleading to the casual gambler). Cardrooms/Casinos – There are no Indian Reservations within the city limits of Los Angeles so technically there are no casinos within Los Angeles.