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Play all your favorite games! California Grand Casino is your Best Bet in the Bay Area!

Ever wonder which casino in the Bay Area is the best one to play at? From 2013 to 2019 the California Grand Casino has been voted Best Casino in the San Francisco East Bay by the Bay Area News Group, which includes the Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune. From all your favorite games like Blackjack, Hold?Em, Pai Gow, Baccarat, and more, to terrific food, such as our breakfast, lunch, and dinner specials, you’re sure to love everything about our casino. Dine tableside while you play, or take a break and have fun dining in The Grand Cafe — we offer a variety of great entrees and even a Noodle Bar where you can make your own delicious Asian dishes.

All the Extras that Make California Grand Casino Special

The big attraction is of course playing the casino games and discovering all the extras that make California Grand Casino special. Did you know that during football season we show all the games and offer contests with cash prizes? Or come see us on holidays like Thanksgiving where you can enjoy a great holiday meal while you play your favorite card games.

California Grand Casino is open 24/7, what are you waiting for?! Get the gang together and come play! Our popular Progressive Bad Beat Jackpots start at $70,000 and increase daily.  Join the ever growing number of people who win at California Grand Casino – We’ve paid our players over $17,000,000 in jackpots and prizes. Get ready to come out and see us and don’t forget to check us out on Facebook!

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Progressive Jackpots

Progressive Jackpots – Your Chance at a HUGE Payday!

Welcome back readers! While the weather may be getting colder, the action is always hot inside the California Grand Casino! Many of you are familiar with our huge bad beat jackpots, which allow a person who loses a pot with a superior hand to make a large amount of money. With the recent addition of double jackpot hours from 2-4am and 8-10am daily, the total prize has the potential to swell to $200,000! There are a multitude of ways to claim your share of the many big cash prizes we have…here’s how it’s done.

High Hand Bonuses

On Mondays through Saturdays we offer $100 to the best poker hand made every four hour period across all of the Texas Hold’em games. It doesn’t matter if you play 3-6 limit hold ’em or $500 buy in no-limit, everyone is in the mix. If you make a hand that is aces full or better (AAA22, both of your cards must be used), and that is the highest hand so far in the time period, your name goes on the board! The person with the highest hand at the end of the four hour period wins $100, and then it resets and starts all over again! It gets even better on Sundays with our current extended summer/fall High Hand Explosion promotion! On Sundays during certain times the High Hand is awarded every hour and sometimes the prize doubles to $200! Considering our $500 added no limit hold ’em tournament Sunday mornings, dozens of flat screens and great football food specials, you don’t want to miss out on Sundays at the California Grand Casino.

Progressive Royal Flush Bonuses

There’s no limit to how much you can win by making the best hand in poker, the royal flush. For Texas Hold ’em the royal flush bonuses for each suit start at $50 and increase by $50 every day they are not hit. Earlier this week the diamond royal flush was approaching $1,000! Don’t worry Omaha players, we’ve got great bonuses for you too including progressive royal flush bonuses. When these get big the game catches fire! Be sure to check the monitors on the west wall when you come in to see how much the bonuses are worth.

Texas Hold’em Mini Bad Beat Jackpot

We also have a mini bad beat jackpot. To hit the jackpot, all you need is to make aces full of jacks or better (AAAJJ), and have it beat by four of a kind or better, and you win a share of $5,000! $3,000 goes to the losing hand and $2,000 gets split up among the remaining eligible players at the table. So, if you were dealt into the hand that qualifies you win a share of that cash prize, even if you folded!

Omaha Bad Beat Jackpot

Our Omaha game has a jackpot of its very own. Make get quad jacks or better (JJJJx) beat by anything and you win half of the $5,000 prize while the rest of the table splits the other half. Just like the other jackpots, if you are dealt into the jackpot hand, you share in the prize!

Texas Hold ‘Em Super Bad Beat Jackpot and Double Jackpot

This is the big one folks. California Grand has already paid over $15,000,000 to players! The jackpot starts at $70,000 and increases $200 every day it’s not hit. Between 2-4am and again from 8-10am, if you hit the super jackpot, your table will split the lion’s share of at least $140,000 and all it takes to win a $200 room share is to be an eligible player at any live poker game when the double jackpot is hit! We just had one player win $83,600 last month. Twenty-two players also won $200 each and the other 8 players at his table got $9,900 each! That’s a lot of happy winners! As I write this blog (10/24/14), our double jackpot is currently at $155,200! You too could be one of the many lucky winners at California Grand Casino The potential is there to score a $100,000 payday if lady luck happens to swing your way!

With all of the action and so many different ways to win, make sure you don’t get left out in the cold this fall and get in to the action at California Grand Casino! Until next time, see you at the tables!

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Why You Won’t Find Slots in California

Why You Won’t Find Slots at the California Grand Casino

I frequently mention my gaming home-the California Grand Casino- to my friends and acquaintances but this can oftentimes give them a different mental image of what exactly the California Grand Casino is. A question I am inevitably asked is Do you have slots there? When I tell them we don’t the usual response is why not? The answer is pretty simple. Slot machines are not legal in California nor any game of chance against the house or casino, except on Indian reservations.

If my friends are still curious they generally ask so…what exactly does California Grand Casino offer? I love this question! I tell them the truth: the California Grand Casino is where real card players come to play in the East Bay, and you play against each other. People come for a multitude of different reasons but the one thing that everyone has in common is that they love to play cards. It’s a social game, a fun game, a serious game…cards are whatever type of game you want them to be! Think about the first time you played a game of cards or handled a deck. What was the first game you learned to play? Go Fish? Crazy 8s? Speed? War? Maybe it was a form of poker. Cards are ingrained in our culture and have been a part of society since cards were first invented by the Chinese around the ninth century shortly after they invented the concept of paper sheets. Just like when you were a kid and played all of those different card games the California Grand Casino has plenty of choices for you to get your card-playing fix on! Hot Action Blackjack, Three Card Poker, Pai Gow Poker, EZ Baccarat, Texas Hold’em, and Omaha Poker.

So Oki how is all of that legal? It is legal because in all of these cardroom games you are playing against other players not against the casino.  You get to play against your friends and competitors just like many of you did when you were a kid. Our Cal Grand customers love the friendly competition, the camaraderie, and the chance to win our Double Jackpot currently valued at $152,800 (and which goes up everyday!). Combine that with all the extra perks that you didn’t get playing cards as a kid: a full bar, restaurant service at the tables, 27 flat screen TVs everywhere you look, and fun promotional events like our current Match Play promotion ($100 in Free Chips and Food for first time customers), plus A’s ticket giveaways, and you satisfy the adult and the kid in everyone!

Whether you’re looking to beat the summer heat or want to enjoy some games while watching your favorite team play on the big screen the California Grand Casino is the place to visit and get your game on in the East Bay. Come on in your table is waiting!

Until next time see you at the tables!

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The Billy Beane Report

California Grand Casino is excited to bring the A’s General Manager Billy Beane Report to you every Thursday at 4pm on 95.7 The Game during the Damon Bruce Show. The A’s have won two consecutive division crowns and are currently holding serve with the early returns so far for 2014 season. Billy is considered the master architect of the A’s resurgence. Dealing out of the front office as both General Manager and part owner Billy Ball as his style is coined has been a winning hand for A’s fans.

Cal Grand Casino is working weekly with Billy to bring you the inside edge on all things Athletics. Pull up a seat at the A’s table Thursdays at 4pm on 95.7 The Game and be dealt the latest front hand and back hand scoop on players coaches moves and future deal strategy to best position the A’s for a deep playoff run.

Of note is Billy’s uncanny timing and career winning hands he has played. Not only was he an MLB player he also co-authored Money Ball (along with the East Bay’s own Michael Lewis) which is regarded as the modern authority on how to use statistical counting to draft the best players. Billy has learned how to draw two cards and come up with a flush as it related to building a winning MLB hand. When Money Ball became an Oscar nominated Hollywood film Billy Beane was played by no less than Brad Pitt.

The Oakland Athletics green and gold make the East Bay a winning MLB franchise home. Cal Grand Casino puts the green and gold in your wallet daily and now into your favorite broadcast station 95.7 The Game right in the heart of the East Bay. Cal Grand Casino the Billy Beane Report and the excitement of A’s playoff baseball come to you all season long. Know the four aces (starting pitching) pull the inside draw (best bullpen in the league) and queue up the lumber (heart of the line-up) for major power plays you don’t want to miss.

Go A’s!

David Okimoto

David Okimoto (or “Oki” as his friends call him) is a semi professional poker player living in the East Bay and currently works in many different capacities for the California Grand Casino. His interests are many, but his passions are sports, sports, and sports! Oki is a long suffering San Jose Sharks fan and season ticket holder, as well as a big fan and supporter of the Oakland A’s, Golden State Warriors, San Francisco 49ers, and San Jose Earthquakes. A self proclaimed jack of all trades and master of none, he spends a great deal of his spare time with his athletic hobbies. On any given evening you are likely to find this sports junkie competing on one of his three softball teams, his soccer team, or his bowling team. His most recent athletic pursuit is now rock climbing, though he admits heights are not his forte. No stranger to injury, he proudly bears multiple scars, fake teeth, and healed bones, and is more than happy to share the related stories that come with them!