Posts Tagged: Baccarat

Tribes waste no time suing to block ‘California Blackjack,’ other Vegas-style games in cardrooms

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by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 01.02.2025

On the first day they were permitted to do so, several of California’s largest gaming tribes filed a suit on Thursday alleging that the arcane system cardrooms and related businesses employ to offer “California Blackjack” and other Las Vegas-style games is in violation of state law.

The story of Bob Lytle, the most infamous figure in California gaming you’ve never heard of

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by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 09.19.2023

In the annals of California gaming history, there is perhaps no more infamous and consequential figure than Bob Lytle, who directly shaped California’s current gambling landscape right before he retired from the Attorney General’s office to go work for a cardroom – a cardroom where he was later investigated and ultimately lost his gaming license.