Gaming History - Week of December 20, 2020
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December 20th |
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2020 - Sunday |
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1933 - Reno, NV. The bar in the Overland Hotel, at 242 North Center Street, was licensed for roulette. Over the years they also offered other games, including 21. . |
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2000 - Shreveport, LA. Hollywood casino opens. |
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2001 - Blackhawk Colorado. Ameristar Casino Resort Spa Black Hawk is a casino and hotel in Black Hawk, Colorado, owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn National Gaming. Plans for the casino were revealed in 1997 by Windsor Woodmont, a company formed by several Dallas-based real estate developers. Hyatt Hotels was tapped to manage the casino. Excavation work on the site began in August 1998, but stalled later that year, reportedly because of financing problems related to the arrival of two other large casinos in Black Hawk (the Lodge and the Isle of Capri). Construction resumed in 2000. The casino opened on December 20, 2001, as the Black Hawk Casino by Hyatt At the opening, it was the largest casino in Colorado, with 57,000 square feet (5,300 m2) of gaming space, containing 1,332 slot machines, 16 blackjack tables, and 6 poker tables. The casino was designed as the first phase of a destination resort, with later additions planned to include a 350-suite hotel tower, a convention center, nightclubs, a spa, and a moun. |
Link to: Ameristar Casino Websisite
Link to: Ameristar Casino Wikipedia |
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December 21st |
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2020 - Monday |
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1986 - Las Vegas, NV. The Gold Coast Hotel and Casino is a hotel and casino located in Paradise, Nevada. This locals' casino is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming. The Gold Coast is located one mile (1.6 km) west of the Las Vegas Strip on West Flamingo Road. It is located across the street from the Palms Casino Resort and the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. |
Link to: Gold Coast Casino Website
Link to: Gold Coast Casino Wikipedia |
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2005 - Gary, IN. Trump casino closes. |
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December 22nd |
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2020 - Tuesday |
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2005 - Enterprise NV. The South Point Hotel and Casino consist of a 24-story hotel tower, casino and 90,000 square feet convention center located on a 60 acres (24 ha) site along Las Vegas Boulevard in Enterprise, Nevada and adjacent to Silverado Ranch. The casino is owned and operated by Michael Gaughan and it serves as the primary sponsor of Gaughan's son Brendan Gaughan's race car. |
Link to: Southpoint Website
Link to: Southpoint Wikipedia |
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2008 - Las Vegas Nevada . Encore Las Vegas or Encore at Wynn Las Vegas (often just called Encore) is a luxury resort, casino and hotel located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The resort is connected to its sister resort, Wynn Las Vegas; both are owned by Wynn Resorts Limited, headed by casino developer Steve Wynn.Encore has been awarded the AAA Five Diamond Award every year since opening. The Towers Suites at Encore and The Spa have both received the Forbes five-star award. Encore Las Vegas and its sister property, Wynn Las Vegas collectively hold more Forbes five-star awards than any other casino-resort in the world and it is considered to be one of the finest hotels in the world. Together with adjacent Wynn Las Vegas, the entire Wynn complex has a total of 4,750 rooms, making it the world's seventh-largest hotel. |
Link to: Encore Website
Link to: Encore Wikipedia |
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The Theatre |
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2021 - Morgantown, PA. Grand Opening. |
Link to: Casino Website
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December 23rd |
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2020 - Wednesday |
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1950 - Las Vegas, NV. La Rue Restaurant and Casino opens on the Las Vegas Strip, closes 7 months later. |
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December 24th |
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2020 - Thursday |
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1905 - Houston Texas. Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business tycoon, entrepreneur, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, inventor, filmmaker and philanthropist. During his lifetime, he was known as the wealthiest self-made man in the world, despite the fact that he had inherited 75% of the family business upon the death of his father. As a maverick film tycoon, Hughes gained prominence in Hollywood from the late 1920s, making big-budget and often controversial films like The Racket (1928), Hell's Angels (1930), Scarface (1932), and The Outlaw (1943).Hughes formed the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932, hiring numerous engineers and designers. He spent the rest of the 1930s setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules (now better known as the "Spruce Goose"). He also acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines (TWA, subsequently acquired by and merged with American Airlines) and acquired Air West, renaming it Hughes Airwest. . |
Link to: Howard Hughes Wikipedia
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1951 - Las Vegas, NV. The California Club operated from 1958 to 1973. Phil Long took over operation of the casino located at the corner of First and Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, 1958. The locals casino catered to local gamblers. It was owned and operated by Phil Long and partner George Milford and was a casino only without any hotel rooms. The California Club was sold to Steve Wynn in 1973. The California Club was combined into the Golden Nugget shortly after the purchase by Wynn. |
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California Club |
California Club interior |
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December 25th |
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2020 - Friday |
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1899 - Boston Massachusetts. Morris Barney Dalitz was born on December 25, 1899, in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Jewish family. He grew up in Michigan.He worked in his family's laundry business early on, but began his career in bootlegging when Prohibition began in 1919, and capitalized on his access to the laundry trucks in the family business. Additionally he developed a partnership with the Maceo syndicate which ran Galveston and supplied liquor from Canada and Mexico. Though he admitted under oath that he had been a bootlegger and had operated illegal gambling houses, Dalitz was never convicted of a crime.[5] During Senator Estes Kefauver's committee hearings (investigating organized crime) questioned his bootlegging, Dalitz said, "If you people wouldn't have drunk it, I wouldn't have bootlegged it."
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Link to: Moe Dalitz Wikipedia
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Moe Dalitz |
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1966 - Los Angeles, CA. Near the end of his life Dandolos was near-broke and playing $5 limit draw poker games in Gardena, California. When asked by a fellow player how he could once play for millions and now be playing for such small stakes, Dandolos supposedly replied "Hey, it's action, isn't it?"
He died on Christmas Day in 1966 and was a charter inductee of the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979. |
Link to: Nick "The Greek" Dandolos
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Nick "The Greek" Dandolos |
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1989 - Las Vegas, NV. Binion died of heart failure at the age of 85 on December 25, 1989 in Las Vegas. Poker great "Amarillo Slim" Preston suggested as an epitaph, "He was either the gentlest bad guy or the baddest good guy you'd ever seen." He was posthumously inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1990.
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Link to: Wikipedia: Benny Binion
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Benny Binion |
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December 26th |
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2020 - Saturday |
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1946 - Las Vegas, NV. The Flamingo Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada and is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. The property includes a 77,000-square-foot (7,200 m2) casino along with 3,626 hotel rooms. The 15-acre (6.1 ha) site's architectural theme is reminiscent of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne style of Miami and South Beach, with a garden courtyard housing a wildlife habitat featuring flamingos. It was the third resort to open on the Strip, and it is the oldest resort on the Strip still in operation today. The Flamingo has a Las Vegas Monorail station, the Flamingo/Caesars Palace station, at the rear of the property. After opening in 1946, it has undergone a number of ownership changes. |
Link to: The Flamingo Wikipedia
Link to: The Flamingo Website |
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The original Flamingo before renovation in 1963 |
The Flamingo currently |
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