THE WORLD'S #1 POKER MANUAL - Card Games

Poker Book, Professional and Public Poker
The time collections of public poker clubs (e.g., Gardena, California poker club[ 30 ]) are generally less
expensive and less harmful to the good player's earnings than are the percentage rakes of Nevada casinos
[ 31 ]. Still, the Gardena-type time collections relentlessly and permanently remove the major portion of
available cash from every game. Table 33 shows that each year, the six Gardena clubs end up with more
than ten times the cash that is won by all the professional poker players in Gardena combined. The table
shows that the six Gardena poker clubs extract over $22,000,000 per year from their customers.
TABLE 33
MONEY EXTRACTED BY GARDENA POKER CLUBS VIA
TIME COLLECTIONS
Minimum
Collection
$1/half hour
(for $1-$2 game)
Average Collection
$2/half hour
(Average for all
games)
Each hour/seat $2 $4 $20
Each day/seat
(22-hour day)
Each year/seat
(310-day year)
Each year/filled table
(8 seats/table)
Each year/average
table
(50% filled)
Each year/club
(35 tables)
Each year/Gardena
(6 clubs)
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$44 $88 $440
$13,640 $27,280 $136,400
Maximum
Collection
$12/half hour
(for $100-$200
games)
$109,120 $218,240 $1,091,200
$54,560 $109,120 $545,600
--- $3,819,200 ---
--- $22,915,200 --