Most of time,Yes i would recommend to play at Club One. Some of the dealers need to be more professional on the table and off the table.

I would like the dealers to be more professional.

Food is very good and the price is fair for the players

You can call and get on the list for 6/12 and higher. Wait time for a table will vary depending on the time of day.

Club One offers food comps to the higher limit players, 15/30 and up.

I guess

Not modern, kind of stuffy. Please see my trip report for limitations and annoyances.

See trip report

yes they offer food service. difficult to find someone though.

see trip report. what management?

yes on comps for the bigger game. jackpot only for players at lower limits. no comp cards

Club One is friendly and comfortable with a wide array of games to play. The card room is located in downtown Fresno so you don't have to drive out of town to the Indian casinos. I played for a few days and had a great time. They have recently been approved for no-limit which makes it my kinda place now.

The room has a upscale feel to it and there is plenty of room to play. The tables are outfitted with auto-shufflers and the chairs are comfortable. The room is rather large so you wont be backing your chair into people when you play. There are no annoyances since there are no slot machines, only the sound of chips. The board is not electronic but is easily seen and they call your name over the intercom.

The dealers were friendly and fast and dare I say...pretty. I played for a few days and didn't see any major mistakes.

The club has great food (I recommend the cube steak), and the staff comes around quite often at the tables. The dining room offers Asian dishes, American (home-style) and excellent sandwiches.

I waited about 20 min for the 2/2 NL. The board is hand written but can be seen easily and if you're in another part of the casino they will call your name over the intercom. The mngmt was very friendly and the chip runners are relatively fast. There is no hotel although they're renovating the old Hilton hotel which is attached to the building.

I will get back to you on the comps. There are high hand and bad beat jackpots.

Overall, I think Club One is the best choice for regular action in Central California. They offer good games, good food and first-rate service in a very nice facility with a full bar/restaurant. Specific games include: Limit: 1/2, 2/4, 3/6, 4/8 (double jackpot), 6/12 and 15/30 regularly NL: 1/1 (20-40 min-max), 2/2 (40-100), 3/5 (100-300) and 5/10 (1000-no max on Tue and Thu and weekends) Omaha: 3/6 with a kill (Saturday only) They also offer blackjack, Pai gow poker and 3-card poker The cash games are pretty soft, the tournaments are better now that they've added level time, and I've found the dealers and staff to be friendly, professional and responsive. Parking can be sketchy midday; there's an underground garage that's used by other downtown businesses so it can get crowded. Nights and weekends are no problem, though. If you're looking for reliable poker action in the Fresno area, this is it. They need a player comp program, though!

The casino floor is all one room with a high stakes and cash area to the right, tournament area to the left and blackjack and pai gow games toward the front. The interior is clean and well-maintained and there's security throughout the facility. Some fixtures are a little dated, but the tables and chairs are all in good shape. There are auto-shufflers on the cash game tables, but honestly, the dealers are quick enough without them. The tournament tables are a mixed of some synthetic felt and some regular felt and they don't have auto-shufflers, but they're big enough to seat 10 players comfortably and are in good shape. Club One recently installed 6-7 flat screen TVs around the casino floor and bar area to complement the existing regular TVs. It was pretty easy to watch the Patriots crush the Bills from any seat in the house. There's also a Polo Lounge room which shows off-track horse-betting. I'm not a horse fan, but the lounge is usually active and the races are shown on several of the TV monitors throughout the poker room.

The dealers and floor-staff are first-rate and act like they actually enjoy working there. It’s a nice change from the cynics you often find pitching cards in the So Cal or Vegas rooms. I recently played the Ace of Diamonds tournament and only saw one misdeal, an exposed card that the dealer retrieved and dealt through without any disruption whatsoever. It was a sharp contrast with this year’s WSOP where I saw misdeals every hour each of which would stall the play for a good minute or so.

Like all the California rooms I’ve played, Club One doesn’t comp alcohol drinks. In fact, I was told the Club’s city ordinance doesn’t allow it. Table-side service was responsive, though and the food and drinks are reasonably priced off the player’s menu. LakeofFire was at Club One he raved about the Vietnamese cube steak and one of the servers mentioned it was the most popular item on the Asian menu, but I wasn’t wild about it. I had better luck later with the Club One burger. It’s a good, cheap burger and my only complaint was that my server forgot to bring ketchup and mustard with it so I had to ask the Asian hottie next to me to borrow hers. In any event, the food here gets the job done—not as good as Ocean’s or the Bike but competitive with the Commerce and the Hustler.

The Club has two sign-up boards both of which are managed manually. The NL board is by the tournament area and the main board is closer to the high stakes area. The staff is good about seating you quickly and it's easy to hear your name called from anywhere in the casino. Wait times are relatively short (<20 minutes usually). I got seated in a 2/2 NL game immediately on a Saturday afternoon at around 5p. Most limit and NL games ran pretty late; several games including 2/4, 3/6, 6/12 and 2/2 NL run around the clock. As I mentioned above, table service is fast and responsive.

Club One offers good food from a player's menu with reduced prices. As I mentioned above, Club One doesn’t comp alcohol drinks per city ordinance. Food is free to players in the high stakes games--5/10 NL and 15/30 limit. Club One doesn't have a player comp program at present but does offer bad beat jackpot and high hand bonuses.

Downtown Fresno is about the worst place to ever visit in the city, inside you'll find dated tables with cheap decoration throughout the card-room, and on the outside you'll find bums asking you for dollars and cigarettes. When you actually start playing you'll find out that no flop still means drop, and if you're unlucky enough to play in a $300 buy-in deep stack tourny there you'll likely find a 6-way chop for 10k a piece from the 75k guarantee.

The inside is decent, but as stated above the decorations are cheap the wall of fame looks like a bunch of mugshots on particle board, and the tables are mostly dated and only a few actually have auto shufflers.

3 chips is being generous for the dealers because a few of them are really professional and know how to run thier game efficiently. The rest are just "hot" Asian chicks that call Kings "K's" Queens "Q's" and Jacks "J's". I was lucky enough to make a "Full Boat K's over Q's" to beat my opponents "Twos over Q's".

The food is actually fantastic and the drink service is usually pretty prompt, no complaints in this area.

The wait times are usually rather short for a decent limit game, but quite long at lower limits.

Plenty of jackpots with the addition of the royal flush jackpot, to compliment the high hands and progressive bad beat jackpot and mini bad beat jackpots.