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Gambling & Gaming in Huntington Beach, CA (2026)

1 verified gambling & gaming rules for Huntington Beach, California, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.

Verified from official government sources

Card Room Licensing

Huntington Beach bans commercial card rooms outright: Section 9.24.020 makes it unlawful to keep any place where non-exempt games are played for money, and Sections 9.24.060 through 9.24.080 block anyone from taking a cut, charging to play, or wagering another person's money in a card game, so no business can operate a for-profit card club under this code.

Huntington Beach Card Game Gambling Rules

Heavy Restrictions

Huntington Beach Municipal Code §§ 9.24.020, 9.24.060

§ 9.24.020. Premises—Keeping. No person (either as principal, agent, employee or otherwise) shall keep, conduct or maintain in this City any house, room, apartment or place used in whole or in part as a place where any game not mentioned in Section 330 or 330a of the Penal Code of the State of California, is played, conducted, dealt, or carried on, with cards, dice, billiard balls, pool balls, ...

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