Other than that, it's a fun place to visit without the long drive out through the desert. The reasoning behind the exclusion remains unclear given the minimal difference between pushing a button, shuffling cards, spinning a wheel and rolling cubes. However, they prohibited ball and dice games including craps and roulette. The only drawback (which, it's not really a Pechanga thing but rather a CA law) but alcoholic beverages are NOT complementary! Gambling or not, you will have to pay for your cocktails at this casino. The 2004 tribal-state gaming compacts approved slot machines and most table-played card games, among others.

Basically, it's a mirror image of your standard Vegas casino but just set in So. Also, the place has a comedy club and a few bars around the casino floor. The casino has a nice variety of quick 'cheap eats' as well as fine dining which is good. Now granted, some of the games are a bit modified from the traditional setup like the craps table (no dice but card flips) and roulette (again, cards rather than a ball on a spinning wheel) but other than that the odds and other card games (blackjack, paigow, and baccarat) are basically the same.

There are plenty of slot machines of every type (traditional wheel slots, computerized versions, video poker, etc.), as well as a large variety of table gaming. Pechanga is the largest casino in California with Vegas style gambling.

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