Robert Turner, a Downey-based professional poker player and former casino manager, said Flynt likely will buy the club and expand it in the style of Las Vegas casinos, with an attached hotel, retail shops and entertainment options that draw nongambling customers. They did not return calls for comment Thursday, but several sources said publishing mogul Larry Flynt plans to scoop up the property, which is just down the street from his card club, the Hustler Casino. The Millers notified the state’s Employment Development Department last week of 380 pending permanent layoffs. In January, the four Millers who own it in a joint partnership pleaded guilty to federal charges that the club helped high-rollers launder $1.38 million by not reporting several large cash transactions. The casino has been in the Miller family since 1947, when Russ Miller bought the Western Club - the state’s first card room - and reopened it as the Normandie. He said felony convictions disqualify anyone from holding a gaming license. This week, the California Gambling Control Commission indefinitely revoked the owners’ licenses but allowed them a four-month reprieve to complete a pending sale of the property at Rosecrans and Vermont avenues, said commission spokesman Eric Patoski.
Normandie Casino, the state’s oldest card club and one of Gardena’s original six poker rooms when the city was known as the “Poker Capital of the World,” is closing in the wake of its owners felony money-laundering convictions.
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