Recently, she was playing two hands of 21 – and collecting a large pile of chips. Sherri Percival of Riverside said she comes to Soboba a couple times a week.

The original bingo hall became Legends and the facility expanded by 25,000 square feet in February 1999 and 20,000 more in 2001. But since the current casino opened in 1995, it has thrived and today boasts 2,000 gaming machines, 22 tables and nearly 700 employees.