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Bay is a cardroom in San Jose, California. Like other California cardrooms, Bay offers poker cash games and tournaments as well as special "California" style table games.

Bay is perhaps best known for hosting the Bay Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour tournament created by Bay owner Marko Trapani in ^[1] The Bay Shooting Star is a major bounty tournament, and the only one of its type on the World Poker Tour.^[2]

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In , Joseph Sutter Sr. purchased the Panama Inn in Alviso, which he would rename as Sutter's Club.^[3][4][5] Sutter's son, Joseph Sutter Jr., took over the establishment in ,^[6] and added poker tables in ^[4]

In , Caltrans released plans for widening of Highway that would require demolishing the club.^[6] A group of investors including Berryessa Flea Market owner Jeff Bumb announced a plan to acquire a 49 percent interest in Sutter's Place and move it to a new, larger facility.^[7][8] The move would have been prohibited under a city law intended to phase out card rooms by ending issuance of new licenses and transfers of existing licenses.^[9][10] However, Bumb's group successfully lobbied the city council to amend the law to allow Sutter's to move to a new location and expand to 40 tables.^[7][11][12]

Sutter's closed in June ^[11] Initial plans called for it to move to the Italian Gardens complex near Downtown San Jose, but negotiations with the site owner failed.^[7][13] Developers instead selected a site in an industrial area near Highway ^[14] A contest was held to choose a new name for the casino, and Bay was selected out of 7, entries.^[15] The cardroom was built at its new location at a cost of $15 million.^[16]

Bay held a grand opening in November , but could not offer gaming because background checks for the owners' gaming license had not been completed; only the restaurants and bar were operating.^[17] As the licensing process dragged on, the club was closed and its employees were laid off in December.^[18] The state Department of Justice eventually denied Bay 's license application because of alleged failures to disclose certain financial information, and other reasons that were not made public.^[19] The shareholders then agreed to sell their stakes in the business to brothers Tim Bumb and George Bumb Jr., who had previously been only passive investors, and were seen as the most likely to successfully appeal the state's decision.^[20][21] Under the sole ownership of Tim and George, Bay received a provisional gaming license in August ^[22] The card room finally opened and dealt its first games on September 9, ^[23]

Bay announced plans in to move across the freeway to the site of the San Jose Airport Hotel, near the new location of the city's other cardroom, Casino M8trix.^[4] The Bumb family had purchased the hotel in for more than $20 million, in anticipation of the cardroom's lease coming to an end in ^[24] An alternative plan emerged in June , as Bay lobbied for permission to move to Milpitas, where it would pay a lower tax rate and be allowed to expand to tables.^[25][26] That plan was rejected, however, by Milpitas voters.^[27] The Airport Hotel was demolished in December to make way for Bay 's new $million casino, hotel, and, office complex.^[28][29] The first phase of the new complex, comprising the casino and a restaurant, opened in September ^[30]

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