Oct 08, 2019 We stopped at the Chumash Casino on the way from Santa Barbara to Solvang. The casino itself is what you'd expect of a casino outside of Las Vegas-slots, table games and not much else. Signed up for the membership program and got $5 free slot play. Oct 19, 2004 'Casino fixed Pay-outs' claims newspaper. October 19, 2004 Elkan Allan. The Chumash Casino Resort at Santa Ynez, which contains one of California's. As the largest hospitality and entertainment company on the Central Coast, Chumash Casino Resort is dedicated to delivering exceptional guest service. We are always looking for talented individuals to join our team. We offer competitive pay and great benefits. We promote from within. We don’t just offer jobs, we offer long term, fulfilling.
The Chumash Casino Resort at Santa Ynez, which contains one of California's most popular Native American reservation poker rooms, has been the subject of a devastating attack in the Los Angeles Times.
In its story, published on October 19, The Times alleges:
- At least seven of 16 tribal members who have served on the gaming commission during the past decade have backgrounds that almost certainly would preclude them from working at, much less regulating, casinos in Nevada and New Jersey.
- One commissioner resigned in July after The Times asked about his past convictions for robbery, burglary and theft. Another former regulator fired gunshots near the Chumash bingo hall. A third was elected to the commission after he was sacked from a management job in the casino for allegedly molesting female employees.
- Tribal members have been caught taking advantage of their authority on the gaming floor. The tribal chairman once directed a blackjack dealer to provide free chips to his son and other customers. In another case, a tribal member was fired as head of video gaming after it was discovered that slot machine tournaments had been fixed.
- Key security jobs at the Chumash Casino are held by relatives of gaming commissioners - an arrangement prohibited by casinos in other states. The surveillance unit in recent years has included several officers who are related to members of the Chumash gaming commission and its executive director.
- One weekend afternoon in 1996, an undercover security officer received a tip that the spouse of a casino employee would collect a cash prize for winning a slot tournament that day.The prediction proved correct. Casino investigators determined that the spouse 'won' the tournament with a phony score.
An undercover officer, said she found a list of previous winners at the casino that included girlfriends, relatives and neighbors of tribal members and employees who ran the tournaments
The Chumash Casino Resort is in Santa Barbara County, California, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, in the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley. It offers 94,000 square feet of Las Vegas-style gaming, 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
Its 24-hour poker room features fourteen tables and a variety of games and stakes including: Hold'em, Omaha, and Seven Card Stud, with regular tournaments.
More than 25,000 gamblers flock to the reservation on weekends. Gambling revenue this year is projected to exceed $200 million, a 40% increase from 2003. In July, the casino raked in $1 million in a single day for the first time.
Those winnings have brought the tribe startling wealth. Since 2000, each of the band's 153 members has collected more than $1 million in casino proceeds. In July, members voted to give themselves a 10% raise, bringing their monthly checks to nearly $30,000 each.
California voters approved high-stakes gambling on reservations four years ago. Since then, tribal gaming has expanded so rapidly that the state is expected to overtake Nevada as the nation's casino capital within several years.
An initiative on the November ballot would extend the tribes' monopoly on Las Vegas-style gambling into the next century. Proposition 70 would lift restrictions on the number of slot machines and allow tribes to offer unlimited craps, roulette and other high-stakes games.
In exchange, tribes would pay the state corporate income tax of 8.84% on casino profits. Currently, Indian casinos are exempt from state and local taxes.
The Chumash Casino Resort[1] is owned and operated by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians. Chumash is located near Santa Ynez Airport, in the Santa Ynez Indian Reservation, about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Solvang, California.[2]
History[edit]
Opened in its present form in August 2003, the casino consists of a 94,000-square-feet (8,730 m2) gaming area with slot machines and table games. A 106-room hotel and spa opened in July 2004. In 2006, the Casino estimated that there were 2,894,561 visitors to the Casino and 34,049 guests in the hotel, nearly all of them from Southern California.[3] The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians have estimated that their casino brings in some 6,000 patrons per day.[4][5]
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Music[edit]
Musicians who have appeared include : Al Green, Charlie Daniels, Clint Black, Cristian Castro, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Hank Williams Jr., Intocable, Johnny Mathis, Kenny Rogers, Kiss, Los Tigres del Norte, The Moody Blues, Pepe Aguilar, Rose Royce, Smokey Robinson, The Spinners, and ZZ Top.
Sport[edit]
Chumash hosts Elite Xtreme Combatmixed martial arts as well as the Star Voice competition show.[6][7]
AAA four diamond casino resort[edit]
Chumash is one of only six AAA four diamond casino resorts in California, with Barona Casino; Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa; Pechanga Resort & Casino; Thunder Valley Casino Resort; and Viejas Casino being the others.
Food[edit]
They also own and operate the Chumash Cafe,[8] and the Creekside Buffet,[9] at Chumash Casino Resort.
Root 246,[10] (the third largest employer in Solvang, 105[11][5]) and Hotel Corque[12] (the seventh largest employer in Solvang, 54[11]) are in Solvang, California.
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Santa Ynez citizens[edit]
There has been multiple lawsuits against the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians by a group of Santa Ynez, CA citizens in recent years, including a suit that was filed April 3, 2015[citation needed] that claims the property where they are building their 12 story high rise hotel/casino is not and has never been part of their 'Federal Tribal Trust Land' and part of a federal Indian reservation. The case has now been taken to a United States Federal Court.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Chumash Casino Santa Ynez.'500 Nations. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
- ^'Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246 Santa Ynez, CA 93460'. Google Maps. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^'Economic Impact of the Chumash Casino Resort on the County of Santa Barbara', Report prepared by The California Economic Forecast. Retrieved September 8, 2010.
- ^'Santa Ynez Reservation'. Retrieved September 8, 2010.
- ^ abSolvang CA. 'FY 2008-2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) (PDF)'. www.cityofsolvang.com. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^Noozhawk. '12 Finalists to Vie for $5,000 and 'Star Voice' Title at Chumash Casino Resort'. noozhawk.com. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
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- ^'Chumash Cafe - Santa Ynez, CA'. Yelp. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^'Creekside Buffet - CLOSED - Santa Ynez, CA'. Yelp. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^'About-Default'. www.root-246.com. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^ ab'City of Solvang CAFR'. cityofsolvang.com. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^'History'. Hotel Corque. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
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Coordinates: 34°36′34″N120°05′10″W / 34.60945°N 120.08613°W
