I was personally banned for player banking baccarat at the Commerce Casino. If you know of someone else who has been banned or barred, please have them contact me as well. Please contact me at if you have been personally banned, barred, asked to leave the Commerce Casino because you 'tried' to be a player banker and were kicked out. I do not play the 'California games,' but just poker at Hollywood Park and Commerce. I've never done it, and this is info I just gleaned from others. You can say up-front how much you want to bank, and if there are bets over and above the amount you want to bank then the 'corporation' covers the rest.

The rules for being the banker are actually quite favorable because you don't have to bank the entire table. and at Commerce, the casino's 'bank' is actually Hollywood Park. I'm not sure, but I think, the corporation at Hollywood Park is actually the Commerce Casino company. What the public doesn't know is that the so-called 'corporation' is actually another casino company that made a cross-deal. A 'corporation' banks the games and the casino takes a fee (usually $1 per hand) from each player to play.

The casino itself doesn't really 'bank' the games. This was part of the deal made when the 'poker rooms' were allowed to offer 'California games.' I think there is a restriction that the player can only bank the table two hands in a row, or something like that. I'm not sure about the other casinos in California, but at Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood (near LAX) players can choose to bank the table.

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