Other entertainment amenities include an 8,700 square foot events center that can seat 600 for concerts and other large events.

The property will also have a 500-seat food court called Marketplace with nine offerings. Graton’s more than one dozen restaurants include offerings from noted award-winning chefs Martin Yan, Doug Keane and 11 time-world pizza champion Tony Gemignani. The property’s casino will have 144 table games and 3,000 slot machines. The Graton Resort is owned by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The resort will be the largest Indian gaming destination in the Bay Area. The 320,000-square-foot property is located off U.S. The casino operator on Thursday announced the opening plans for the Graton Resort & Casino. (Courtesy/Station Casinos)Īn $800 million Indian casino project, located roughly 45 minutes north of San Francisco and being built and managed by Station Casinos, will open Nov. By contrast, the card rooms operate under a complicated set of betting restrictions that forces them to work with third-party companies, such as Knighted Ventures, to handle the actual betting at their card tables.The Graton Resort's casino, owned by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, will have 144 table games and 3,000 slot machines.

They have a monopoly on slot machines, and they alone are allowed to act as “the house” or “the bank” – that is, take a financial stake in their games. Legally speaking, the tribes hold most of the chips. The tribes have built a $7 billion-a-year business, while Kirkland said the state’s 72 card rooms generate about $800 million in annual gambling revenue. Although they’ve been around since the late 1930s, they’ve been left in the dust since California voters passed Proposition 1A in 2000, allowing tribes to operate Las Vegas-style casinos. “It’s sort of irresponsible if you don’t use whatever tools you have to try to challenge it.”īlocking a tribal casino would represent a rare win for the card rooms. “Certainly it’s a big project and it will have a big impact,” said Kyle Kirkland, a Fresno card room owner and president of the industry’s trade group, the California Gaming Association.

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