“There’s a lot of energy in the room for outdoors,” said Keith Sharp, general counsel for the casino. Rather, folks like Matt Edelstein said the sights and sounds of the outdoor cardroom were a welcomed relief from a coronavirus pandemic that has upended so much of life’s routines, not the least of which was a weekly trip to the casino for the 29-year-old Huntington Beach resident. The vote by the supervisors came about two weeks after the mayors of five cities with cardrooms - including Hawaiian Gardens, which receives more than 70% of its funding from that casino, according to Mayor Jesse Alvarado - urged them to do so, saying the financial stability of their towns was at risk.įor players, though, the cardrooms are more than a budgetary necessity. Even though Los Angeles County remains in the most at-risk tier, according to state standards, the Board of Supervisors voted 3 to 2 last week to allow cardrooms to operate outdoors the county also allowed other industries to either operate outdoors, such as breweries, or - as was the case with nail salons - indoors but with significantly reduced capacity.

In all, it was a welcome return to business after being shuttered for months amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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