Ron;
One point not yet made about CA Card Rooms is that the card room does not bank the games. All play and win/loss is between the players. All the card room does is provide a place to play. This is paid for by a per hand rake or a per hour seat fee or some other form of payment to the card room, thus it is not unusal to see the owner playing in the card room as a player just like any other player.
Jim