[sportbettor]

I live in norcal by bay 101 and travel to socal a lot to play cards. I only play nolimit HE (and also plo but you are correct in assumning you cannot find a plo game around here).

The best place to stay in LA is either at the commerce or at the ramada inn accross the street from the bike. The room rate at commerce is $99 a night for the poker rate. You can get a rate at the ramada at the bike if you say you are playing at the bike for around $60 a night.

As far as no limit goes, the bike and commerce have the only uncapped games in LA as far as I can tell. The bike usually has a $5/$10 blind no cap $500 min game and sometimes a $10/$20 blind no cap $1000 min game. The commerce has a $10/$20 blind no cap $600 min game and sometimes a $20/$40 blind $2k min game and/or a $50/$100 $5kmin game. Both places also have a bunch of lower capped games. I did see a $20/$40 PLO8 game at commerce a couple of weeks ago. But the game was short and the lineup didnt look good so i passed. I told them Id rather play PLO and they said theyd be up for a game the next day but the game never went.

If you want to play small capped NLHE hawaiann gardens is a good place to play. They have $20 max, $40 max, $100max $300max and $500max NLHE games. Id say about 30-50% of the games they have are capped no limit games. I only went there once because i hate caps but it was crazy there.