Greater Philadelphia (including Atlantic City)īack before so many states legalized poker, Atlantic City, New Jersey had the only legal poker on the East Coast south of Connecticut. There's also a whole lot to do other than play poker in Southern California, as it is home to beautiful beaches, Hollywood, and the incredible cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as the beautiful resort town of Palm Springs.
Truly, Southern California is the poker capital of the world. This adds up to unsurpassed poker action, including huge tournaments and nosebleed-stakes cash games. Southern California features the largest poker palaces in the world, including the immense 200-plus table Commerce Casino, the 110-table Gardens Casino (formerly the Hawaiian Gardens, the 90-table Hollywood Park, the 80-table Bicycle Club, and the 50-table Hustler. Legal poker has existed in California since the 1930s, allowing California to become the state with the most poker tables in the U.S. destinations for a poker-playing vacation. Here is my personal list of the eight greatest U.S. During the WSOP, Las Vegas is where nearly every serious poker player wants to be.īut there are many other places in the United States that make great poker destinations, especially now that the WSOP is over. The focus of much of the poker world for most of the summer was on Las Vegas and the World Series of Poker, and for good reason.
