The popular Serrano Buffet re-opened in December 2021 after being closed since the start of Covid. These include Hong Bao Kitchen, The Pines Modern Steakhouse, the always busy and popular Serrano Vista Cafe, Just Barbecue, and Rock & Brews, (among others). Yaamava satisfies this demand with seven restaurants (not including the food court). With over 8 million visitors a year, you can imagine the restaurant demand here. In normal times, roulette and California card craps games run. Table game options include tons of black jack tables (and many variants like Blazing 7’s), pai gow, EZ Baccarat, Three-card poker, and electronic versions of many table games. It boasts a bar and 18,000 square feet – more than many casinos! There’s an even more exclusive, private high-limit room with private entries so that the high-roller or celebrity won’t get photographed by the rest of us mere mortals. “The Vault,” on the second level is one of five high-limit rooms, and has an entrance that looks something out of a starship from a Star Wars movie.

In addition to all the video poker machines at bar tops, Yaamava spreads 200 video poker machines on the casino floor. Among these are Blazin’ Gems, Buffalo gold, Colossal Diamonds, Dragon Link, Dollar Storm, Monopoly Money Grab, and more.

There is no longer a poker room here either.Īmong the array of 6,500 slots are seemingly every machine you’d want to play: mechanical reels games, video reels, progressives and more. In addition, the craps game that runs during normal times is card-based, rather than determined by a dice toss (although the odds are the same). Although the casino is open 24 hours a day, alcohol service stops at 1:15 AM. There are some quirks with tribal gaming. With 6,500 slot machines, 123 plus table games, and 290,000 square feet of casino floor space, Yaamava is one of the largest casinos in the United States, and the biggest of the 25 casinos in Southern California.

(The red star in the map below represents the Yaamava Resort & Casino, while the yellow star represents the Pechanga Resort & Casino) Yaamava’ Resort & Casino (Red star on map) It’s an Indian casino on tribal land situated sixty-three miles due east of downtown Los Angeles. It’s the spacious Yaamava’ Resort & Casino (formerly the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino), east of L.A. That being the case, there is one casino near Los Angeles. Per California law, cardrooms are different entities, are not allowed to have slot machines, video poker machines, or craps and roulette. However we’re just focusing here on the closest more traditional casino to L.A.

The Yaamava Resort & Casino has 432 hotel rooms.

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