Bicycle Casino
| Bicycle Casino | |
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| Address | 888 Bicycle Casino Drive Bell Gardens, CA 90201 |
| Opening date | November 30, 1984 |
| Casino type | Land |
| Website | http://www.thebike.com/ |
The Bicycle Casino is a poker cardroom.[citation needed]
Founded by George Hardie Sr. in 1984, located in Bell Gardens, California, the Bicycle Casino offers a wide variety of poker games and limits, as well as pai gow poker, panguingue and California blackjack.
The casino is home to the Legends of Poker, a tournament series established in 1995 that now includes a stop on the World Poker Tour. Prior to the Legends, the casino's main tournament series was called the Diamond Jim Brady.
Live at the Bike
The Bicycle Casino was the first brick and mortar casino to broadcast live poker games over the Internet. Live at The Bike[1] ran five nights a week, and was accessible via the casino's website. The show sometimes featured guest commentary from professional players like Barry Greenstein and Kenna James.
Live at the Bike became a subscription service in mid-2006. The live broadcast was canceled in March 2007, but returned in January 2011 on PokerNetcast.com.
In popular media
The Bicycle Casino was featured in an episode of the TV series Numb3rs dealing with the murder of a successful card-counter, who coincidentally was also heavily into bicycle home repair.
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Coordinates: 33°57′59″N 118°09′58″W / 33.966312°N 118.166148°W