Slab10s Trading Cards hosts The Premier So Cal Card Show on Saturday, September 5, 2026 at the Delta Hotels by Marriott in Garden Grove, running 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM with free entry, free parking and a giveaway on the day. It is a one-day, single-session show built around a straightforward proposition — get a room full of Orange County dealers together, charge nobody at the door, and let the inventory do the work.
The billing is sports and TCG in equal measure, and the floor reflects that. On the sports side you will find MLB, NBA and NFL running from junk-wax-era boxes through current-year rookies, with autograph and patch cards, prospect inventory and a solid amount of graded material across PSA, CGC, SGC and Beckett. Hockey and soccer show up in smaller numbers. The gaming half of the room is anchored by Pokemon — sealed product, English and Japanese singles, vintage holos and graded chase cards — with Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece and Lorcana dealers filling out the tables. Memorabilia, Funko Pops and sealed wax lots appear most times out.
Hours are a single 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM session. There is no early-bird ticket and no VIP tier, so the whole room opens at once. The promoter runs a giveaway during the day; entry is typically free with attendance and drawn on the floor, so check in at the host table when you arrive rather than assuming you are automatically entered.
The venue is at 12021 Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove. Parking is free in the hotel lot, and being a working hotel the property has clean restrooms, a lobby to sit in, and food and drink on site if you want to step out of the room for twenty minutes. Harbor Boulevard has plenty of chain dining, and the Korean corridor on Garden Grove Boulevard is a short drive if you want something better. From Long Beach the drive is about thirty minutes on the 22 or the 405.
The audience is broad — families, weekend collectors, and the local dealer network that works the Orange County circuit. First-timers do well here because the room is a manageable size and nobody is charging admission for the privilege of browsing. Serious buyers will find graded and high-end material but should not expect a national-show inventory depth.
How to work it: arrive close to opening if you want first look, because a free-entry Saturday show fills quickly and the sharpest raw material moves in the first ninety minutes. Bring cash — it is still the fastest way to close and often the cheapest. Carry a want list so you are not browsing aimlessly, and bring your trade binder, since Slab10s and the vendors around them do trade actively. Loupe or phone macro is worth having for checking surface and centering on raw cards.
Table count for this date is not published, so treat vendor numbers as unconfirmed. For updates, vendor lists and future dates, follow Slab10s Trading Cards on Instagram.
