Chumash Casino Poker Room
The Poker Room open daily from 10am - 2am. No limit hold'em games are available. All tournaments and most promotions will remain on hold. Please check back for further updates regarding tournaments and other promotions. Part of Chumash Casino Resort Welcome to the Chumash Casino Resort Poker Room. The poker room is non-smoking and offers 14 tables for play. Daily tournaments include Mini Texas Hold'em, No Limit Texas Hold'em, Battle of the Sexes, and High Roller (Fridays).
I've been going to the Chumash Casino for years and have enjoyed it most of the time. The old poker room was dark and crowded. But, the newly remodeled space is great. There is lots of light, plenty of space, and the bathrooms and food court are very close.
The daily tournaments are nice and the bigger events pay well. The cash games are good as well.
The only negative is the remote location. Sometimes, if there are fires or rains nearby, it can be hard to reach. The hotel is beautiful, but pricey. I stay at the Days Inn in Buellton to save a pile of cash.
In a sense, the governor of the Empire State is helping it live up to its nickname.
The Cuomo administration said this week that it will look into allowing a casino upstate near the Seneca Nation’s casino in downtown Niagara Falls, says a report from The Buffalo News. The reason? The tribe is no longer giving Albany a cut of its gambling winnings.
The development could bode well for online poker, which the state has been eyeing for several years now as a relatively immediate tax revenue source.
The news of the tribe’s plans to halt the payments came earlier this year, and now the state is looking to put pressure on the tribe to continue forking over about $110 million annually. The tribe has paid about $1.5 billion to Albany since 2002. The tribe’s New York casinos are the Seneca Niagara Casino, Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino and Seneca Allegheny Casino.
The Seneca Nation said its compact with the state doesn’t say it needs to continue making the payments past 2016, which led to the most recent showdown with the state.
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New York already allowed a commercial casino—the Del Lago Resort and Casino in Seneca County that opened in February—about 100 miles from the tribe’s Buffalo property.
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That new casino was one of four Albany and state voters approved for struggling upstate regions, with three having opened their doors so far. The tribe’s compact granted the tribe casino gambling exclusivity in the region, so the threat to give a license for a Las Vegas-style casino right next door to the tribe’s most successful casino in the state would officially mark an end to that exclusivity. However, it would take several years of hurdles before a fifth commercial casino could begin construction, and it’s not clear if Niagara Falls could support another one.
This isn’t the first time the Senecas and state officials have argued over the compact. The tribe and the state had a dispute in 2013 over the new commercial casinos, but that was sorted out in part thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatening to allow a casino just 20 miles northwest of Buffalo. The state’s tribal gaming industry didn’t attempt to thwart the commercial casino referendum that the administration wanted to pass.
The compact is valid until 2023, but New York contends that it’s out the window if the revenue sharing payments don’t come in. The money goes to local communities.