Tournaments are crap aside from their major tournament series (Shooting Star). However, limit cash games are the best around. Highest limits, craziest action players. Be prepared for wild swings but the wins can be gigantic. read more

After cashing out, I walked over to Sutters for some dinner. The menu was mostly Asian. The other restaurant Marko's serves American food. There's also a deli. The ambiance was okay. There were 5 or 6 large LCDs on the walls turned to various sports channels. The prices were really cheap. For example, a bowl of combination pho was 5.5. I ordered the house special seafood noodle soup for 7.75 and a lemonade. The service was really slow, I had to wait for like 15 minutes. The food was top notch though. Definitely one of the best seafood noodle soups I've ever had. The soup was tasty and there were tons of seafood in there. Shrimps, scallops, octopuses, and various Asian veggies made up of the main ingredients. Service was bad though. The waitress didn't refill my lemonade even once. I still tipped the obligatory 15% knowing I'll be seeing her again in the near future... read more

It sucks that I never even got to go inside the place..we were in the parking lot waiting for all of our friends to arrive to go inside the casino together. All of a sudden a whole team of security guards ran up to us and told us we disrespected the female guard that was running the lot but she had never came up to us? We were very confused and asked why we were confronted that way when we did nothing wrong...so long story short the giant samoam security guard starts yelling at us and the only thing that makes sense is the girl was scared of us only because we were a giant group of muti racial people and told her boss she already confronted us just so she didn't have to come up to us alone..all in all it was a pretty shitty experience then we went to the m8trix across the street and had an amazing time. read more

After all the fuss about this place, I decided to visit to play some poker and have fun. We went on a friday and had to wait in line. We were told 2 hours is the waiting period. With a small floor, and limited tables, we triple asked to make sure it's 2hours, and we were assured 2 hours! We went to get something to eat, came back 1h20m later, and they said couple more hours! I didn't believe their BS, and this guy happened to be waiting for over 4 hours and counting... Look, I understand there is a wait, but why the F! are they lying! They do this for a living and they can estimate a better timing? Are they BSing us so we could sleep the night there, til morning our turn comes? WTF! BTW, this place seem to be better fit for gamblers, young thugs, and dude's that look like they NEED to shower, rather than a couple looking for a trip to vegas. read more

Food is good had hot and sour soup Staff where ok here service was slow though dont expect them to get to you whether they are packed or only have a few people setted read more

Attitude of management is NOT customer service oriented. Food is mediocre at best and cooks are clueless about preparing anything besides Asian dishes. Food service is horrible at best and wait times in the poker room are average 40 minutes to be served incorrect orders and cold food that was ordered hot. Many lost customers now rather than remain a hostage for lack of food service after 2 or 3 hours of play. Personally experienced the most rude and unprofessional insulting treatment at the cashier's cage by the department manager in charge Scared corporate culture robot that only operates from a script of what cannot be done rather than finding a solution to a fixable situation resulting in caring about the customer. All in all I find it difficult to now patronize a business that really cares less about a positive customer experience. read more

Nice new facility is the only positive. I played poker for three hours and not once did a server come by the table. Also there was a plate of nasty smelly food on a tray next to our table the whole time. The other negative is no promos or jackpots. read more

One of the two best card clubs in the wider Bay Area along with Lucky Chances. Has big outdoor parking lot with nice outside architecture. Inside its very spacious with large, airy rooms. Has more tables than any other poker room i've seen in the Bay Areas, except for Lucky Chances which is slightly larger. It has a huge range of Limit Holdem games, 2 blind sizes of spread limit holdem, and omaha8 for poker games, and some other casino games on the other side of the house. They've got a snack bar, and restaurant service at the table. Open 24 hours. read more

This Place Is Just Ok? Always Crowded. Impossible To Find An Empty Seat. Smells Kinda Funny. But The Dealers Are Cool Dudes! Baccarat Tables Are Always Hot There! ( keep that in mind ) Player All The Way! Happy Trails. Nick P. read more

I showed up @8:23 labor day am for their tournament. I bought in as an alternate. We learned that the club did not plan for 200 players despite the history of 200 plus players on the holiday. Bay 101 did not have enough dealers to accommodate the group.As a result, I stood around for 2 hours to enter the tournament. There were at least 5 empty tables the entire time. This is not good planning since the dealers were requested in advance. I know you guys have a virtual monopoly since the Matrix doesn't put up much competition especially tournaments. Poker players don't ask for much for the money they pay Bay101 but we do expect service. The best remedy would be another club locally to provide some competition read more

My review is to come. For now, 2.5 star. NOTE that in my opinion, you should NOT think Casino when going here, but more the phrase Card Room. It is a well lit card room basically. Straight forward for the function of playing various types of table card games. Yes, I am glad there is no smoking. The above is just an intro and review is to come soon after another visit or two. read more

i hate coming here but have to because i technically "work" here as a professional poker player. one of the nastiest, grimiest and just plain dirtiest casinos i've been to. the workers are rude and the place is full of scummy degenerate gamblers. not much good i have to say about this place. people think the food here is good but i beg to differ. the food is not good at all. avoid this place if possible. matrix across the street is a much better choice for your gambling entertainment. read more

Bay 101 - 2014 Shooting Stars! - Casinos Near Me - San Jose, California

Nice place, nice people but service not that great. I wish they were more friendly and everything very pricey. Poker room so so set up. Poker collection way too high could compare to all the card rooms in the Bay Area. And they don't offer any promotions such as jack Pot or high hands...first time here and I am not going to play here again! The best card room in Bay Area is Artichoke Joes casino located in San Bruno. Very close to 280/380 highway exit. Collection is way much lower there. Free coffee soft drinks, Food much cheaper and they also get plenty of parking. read more

Take this review with a grain of salt. I am not reviewing the restaurant or the other exotic table games. I'm only speaking of the Poker Room (specifically, the cash games). I will fully admit that I'm jaded and used to the plush rooms of The Bellagio, The Venetian and The Wynn. I am not comparing Bay 101 to those establishments; that'd be an Apples to Orangutans comparison. For Silly Silicon Valley, this is THEE place to play poker. Whether that's a good or bad thing is debatable. The choices of games really comes down to limit hold 'em (3/6 up to 20/40, with spread limits and no-limit tables) or Omaha (which I don't play, as my mind isn't wired for it). I may be hallucinating, but I thought I remembered a 4/8 7-Card Stud game here, back in 2003... Anyway, the sheer number of tables usually means that you're not waiting about for bloody ages, to sit down to a game. The Good: Whatever your comfort level is with gambling, you'll find it here. I do remember a 2/4 limit hold 'em game, but they've apparently dropped that (and all for the best). 3/6 games are plentiful, but the 8/16 with a half-kill seems to be the house favourite. The spread limit game caps any bet at $200, while the no-limit game is standard fare for anyone who plays NL in Vegas. There's a massive coffee table with oily, heavily caffeinated brew always available; great for those long grinding sessions. The dealers are efficient and misdeals are a rarity. All in all, it's an acceptable environment for "entertainment" poker. The Bad: I placed the word entertainment in quotes above because that is how a LIMIT poker player should treat Bay 101. This is NOT the place to try to grind out 3.5 to 4 big bets an hour. The rake is a prohibitive $5, and if you couple that with at least a $1 toke to the dealer if you win the hand, there is a lot of money disappearing off the tables that you can't win back. If you're a No-Limit player, you can defeat this by solid play. But limit grinders beware. Even at the 8/16 tables, it is difficult to overcome the rake to show a consistent profit. The chairs hurt your arse after awhile. The shuffle machines are prone to overheating and malfunctioning, forcing the dealer to manually shuffle. The Ugly: The players can be a bit dodgy. They range from the Full Tilt losers who're angry at the world to the friendly, well-to-do technology professionals who may be brilliant in their trade but are absolutely poor poker players. The latter group will happily dump hundreds of dollars into you stack, laugh, clap you on the back and genuinely exclaim: "Nice hand!" They're great to have on the tables, but they're outnumbered by the angry degenerates by at least a ratio of 9 to 1. There's also an odd... smell. I'm not sure if I'm just imagining it, but my olfactory senses truly seem to be picking up some sort of odour. The place reeks. It stinks of failure and minimum wage. Some players have atrocious hygiene; and they shuffle around in ragged clothes and sandals. Makes it a tad bit difficult to contemplate a how much you should bet on a squeeze when the old bloke sitting next to you is farting into his seat and blowing his nose into his fingers. Overall: A solid player can make money here (at the higher limits). The action is fast and players are there to gamble, not to play "good" poker. That's precisely the kind of game you want, if you're an old-school Sklansky-Malmuth tight-aggressive player. Yes, you'll take more than your fair share of bad beats, but if you consistently make Positive EV plays, you should find ample opportunities to check-raise reckless maniacs. Word of Advice: Do NOT try for a dead money grab in the NL game. I've never attempted it, after watching the disastrous results of any who tried. The degenerates playing against you generally do not understand the subtleties of fancy plays and you'll find all four limpers calling you. You might even get re-raised just because they love to build pots. Play solidly, don't get fancy, Value Bet the bloody hell out of them every time you can and just shrug off bad beats as an occupational hazard. If you want a game where everyone sits around waiting for the mortal nuts before they call a bet, a game where you're primarily stealing blinds and hardly ever seeing a flop... Then scrape together $6,000 and play the 30/60 at The Mirage with the other wheelchair-bound geriatrics. Despite everything, if you live (and play) in the South Bay, you're better off here than across the street at Casino M8trix. There simply aren't enough tables at M8trix. Lucky Chances in Colma is too far. Indian Casinos have $4 rakes, but think of the petrol you'll burn just to drive out there (you may as well just drive to Reno or Tahoe). So, if you're dead-set on playing serious poker, pull up a seat. And if you happen sit next to an Asian bloke with a West Midlands accent, tell him you read his review on Yelp and fold every hand to him. :) read more

BEWARE: This casino does NOT check ID. My younger brother who is 17 has been repeatedly allowed entrance and has been playing at the poker table. We found out because he's been withdrawing money from an unknown San Jose location-Bay 101. I have called twice now on two different occasions and the manager of security ensured it wouldn't happen again. The second time I called was at 3a in the morning last night. I spoke with the same person and advised my brother is probably at the table now as he just withdrew cash. I gave him my number and asked him to call me back. Nothing. I will sue if no action is taken. What a joke of a casino. read more

I would not go back to this place if they PAID me to. Last night, my brother took my son.. It was my sons 1st time to the casino, and 1st time gambling. The dealer at the table (Texas hold), had the nerve to call my son an IDIOT!!!! Not once, twice, but three times!! After learning about this, I called and asked to speak to the manager.. what a joke he was. He did not resolve the issue, nor did he reassure me that anything would be done about it. Of course I am enraged as a parent, but I'm even more so because I KNOW that -THAT (and probably other employees) will continue to make belittling remarks like that again and again. I could tell that my son felt ashamed, and THAT should NEVER BE ACCEPTABLE!!!! read more

Came here with my coworkers today for lunch. Very slow service. Took a while to get our menus and took even longer to get our food. The food was finally ready and was on the table as we stared at it while It got cold. When my coworker could not wait any longer and got up and walked over to the counter to pick up the plate himself, the lady server ran up and said she will get it for us. So he sat back down and waited for the server to bring the food to our table. By the time we got our food, we only had 10 minutes left to eat. Paying the bill also took forever and we were 5 minutes late to work. Very slow service given that there were only 2 other parties. We won't be coming back. read more

Customer service is awful. Attempted to call the poker desk to ask about wait times and staff was incredibly rude. If you want to play poker head to the Matrix around the corner. read more

I'm not a gambler and my friends and I just came here one night because we were bored. Oh dear it feels like you're walking into a Chinese mafia gambling house or something. A lot of older Asian people gambling, and they all look mean. All the employees look mean too. It was also much smaller than I thought it would be. Just an intimidating, unwelcoming place. I guess if you don't gamble, people come here to eat, but I still wouldn't come just to eat, it was just a miserable atmosphere. read more

Never in my life have I ever felt discriminated against until I came here. Management wouldn't even reach out to me. I came in on Sunday 8/28/18 I came in with a friend who is a woman. I was wearing a tank top, she was wearing a tank top and inside the building I saw multiple women wearing tank tops. The security guard stopped me personally and said I was not allowed in with my attire. He said specifically men cannot come in with tank tops but women are allowed to. I questioned this because that's purely gender discrimination. I was forced to leave and not allowed in the casino. I asked about the policy and they did not provide a written statement or policy where it allowed one gender to wear what they want but stop me from coming on and denying service based on my gender. Management never reached out to me, I'm going to be in the process to file a suit against them so let's see how this all goes. read more

Drunk, broke, and hungry? This is the place to be! Food: Where else can you get prime rib for less than $10?! That is if you want to wait for a good 30 mins for a bloody slab of tasteless meat. I guess you get what you pay for. On another occasion I had a bowl of pho, let me tell you luke warm pho is not the best even when you are drunk. Service: huh? where? Price: need I mention $10 prime rib again. Cheappp Overall: I wonder how the food tastes sober... I guess I should mention the actual casino portion, let's just say it's far from Vegas and kind of far from Reno too. Live, Laugh and Lunch Patty read more

The Floor Manager John in the No-Limit Poker section is a very friendly and knowledgeable person. His customer service is always up to par and does a great job when making poker decisions. I can't wait for the new Bay 101 casino to open up and I'll make sure to have John help me out whenever I need anything. read more

I was a regular Poker player prior to the move and now not so much. Casino staff and floor management are the best. The food and food service are the worst both Asian and American food is terrible and way too high priced. Cold when finally served after 45 minutes. Felt like a hostage without decent service and moderate priced food choices. read more

This was our first time here and I must say their poker selection is awesome. They have a lot of limit and no limit and the place is definitely big. The tall blonde floor john had excellent customer service and made us feel at home. Thank you!!! read more

A begrudged 3 stars that I'd prefer be 2.2. Nevertheless, Bay101 does outcompete local neighbor M8trix in the one simple fact that its able to seat cardplayers. You can play BJ for $10 a hand with an ante, so you start out down 10%. No problems, but, like any non-reservation associated casino, lacks majesty in almost any amount. Sure, when you walk in there is a fountain display of dolphins (which is hilarious in land-locked San Jose), When you walk in, there's already something missing: music. Yes, you are in a sort of upscale middle school cafeteria, with soundless television sets on channels that you would normally watch at home, such as ESPN3 or the Shopping Channel (with its myriad of sketchy commercials about how to purchase pure silver since gold is losing value). There is security, and they will check your bags. Not so at M8trix. I would compare this casino to Commerce in southern Los Angeles in the sense that there is a studious joylessness pervading the gamerooms. I got to play (an improvement on M8trix) for $10 a hand (a 1.5x upgrade from M8trix) and actually won, plus there were bathrooms that weren't constantly congested. Again, there must be some law about slot machines in SJ, and this casino also does not have them. read more

didn't come here to lose money came here last night at 12:50am for the prime rib super deal. waitress told me they no longer doing the deal and the restaurant closes at 1am now. how lame!!!! read more

I went for Blackjack but didn't play. $10 limits. Wish they had $5. They had very sizable side bet bonuses. Staff was friendly.

I like the food at Sutter's. They have awesome fried rice which tastes great with a fried egg on top. Perfect late night food. Their lobster bisque tasted more like crab bisque but it was wonderful and went really good with the fresh french bread that comes out with butter. They have great standard Asian/Chinese/Vietnamese dishes like pho, beef stew and other things like chicken wings. The owner/manager is great, too. Nobody ever gives me a hard time when I try to get a bowl of noodle soup without noodles. (Sometimes I don't eat carbs). I love it here! The food is cheap and they are open 24 hours a day. read more

Been going to Bay 101 off and on the past year. For all you low limit players like myself, they are really cutting back the 2-4 tables. Most nights they only have one 2-4 table going which has forced me into 3-6 which I actually prefer now. Most of the dealers are cool but I've seen one get angry when my friend didn't tip him. In general I like Bay 101 quite a bit but I've stopped going to the restaurant after I got some soapy beer and after telling the bartend he just shrugged. read more

Night out with my brother listings to his relationship Problem here at 101. The atmosphere was nice and not too loud. Our waiters and bartenders was very attending. read more

Came here once and see no real difference between this and Lucky Chances or Artichoke Joe's. This place is small and hard like hell to find a parking space on weekends. read more

really low prices on food here. prime ribs, delicious... hopped over to the gambling table and put down a $100 on pai gow. easily won, double down and walked away richer than before. so dinner was free that night. yah!!! read more

If you ever want to get to know what despair feels like, go no further the Bay

***This review is strictly only for the dining area!!!*** I don't gamble at all. But my boyfriend does. So when I'm with my boyfriend and hanging out with 10 other guys, I have no choice but to say "YES" to Bay 101. And surprisingly, this place is great! They have pho, steak, oysters, salmon, and many more! I've tried the pho, which was ok. The steak and eggs are good. And the salmon was decent. The entrees are well priced. This is the place to go if you want a variety of different food to choose from at 1am! :) read more

By far my favorite place to play poker. They have Omaha games and never a long wait to play poker. Haven't been here in years. I won't make it a habit again. Walked out a winner. read more

Probably one of the largest card rooms in the bay, and lots of variety in poker limits. Pretty straight-up players for the most part. Had to take away 2 stars because: 1. It's kinda ghetto 2. The people here are SCUM and DEGENERATES...but what did you expect??? read more

this review is mainly for province food service inside of bay101 casino. I love the fact Bay101 moving their Paigow tables back to where they are before next to the bar. However, the service from Province, which is separate from Bay101 casino from what i have been told, is terrible. Food was ok not too bad, but their servers are terrible. I ordered a beer. from the prices, cost around $7, i gave the waitress for $20 in chips and expected she gave my change back so that i can tip. But I got caught up playing a hand on Paigow. She never came back and just assumed everything else is her tip. even though it is not much money, but i hate i got rip off like that. I talked couple players around the table, everyone was saying some servers were shady. one of the players said she always ordered same food, but the price was always different. others said they sometime round up the price. if the player didn't ask for the receipt, they just basically cheat and got more tips. some dealers played with me who also warned me to ask for receipt before paying the bill. I miss the old bay101 whose service was awesome. I used to just go there and get food. I miss the grab and go so much. read more

I still feel Bay is better than M8trix when it comes to poker. It's got tons of parking, friendly staff, decent dealers, good floormen, and fast chip runners. While M8trix is more geared toward table games, Bay is a great place for NLHE. 2-3-5 Deep Stack and 5-5-10 $1,000 - $25,000 are my games of choice! read more

Pace of blackjack play is very slow compared to other casinos. Overall not a bad place and very happy its non smoking

I KID YOU NOT!!! Best Pho and fried rice and calamari ever ever ever!! Clean, fresh and price is reasonable. I do not gamble but I definitely come here once a week for their food!!! read more