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Horseshoe Council Bluffs is a casino and former greyhound racing track in Council Bluffs, Iowa, near Omaha, Nebraska. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by Caesars Entertainment . It has 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m 2 ) of gaming space with 1,438 slot machines, 63 table games, a William Hill racebook, [ 1 ] and a WSOP poker room. [ 2 ]
List of casinos in the U.S. state of Iowa; Casino City County State District Type Comments Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs: Council Bluffs: Pottawattamie: Iowa: Riverboat: Argosy Casino Sioux City
By 2005, Council Bluffs was the 19th largest casino market in the United States, with revenue equaling nearly $434 million. [citation needed] Casinos include Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs, Harrah's Council Bluffs, and the Horseshoe Council Bluffs.
Council Bluffs was founded in the late 1840s as Kanesville by Mormons. When Brigham Young called all people of the faith outside of Utah to Salt Lake City in 1852, the community ceased to be majority Mormon. It was renamed Council Bluffs in 1853. The buildings here are among the earliest extant commercial buildings in the city. [2]
Lester Ben Binion (November 20, 1904 – December 25, 1989), better known as Benny Binion, was an American casino operator who established illegal gambling operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In 1931, Binion was convicted of shooting and killing a rum-runner , Frank Bolding.
Gregorec said one of the most exciting components to the casino's rebranding is the World Series of Poker's reunion with Horseshoe. The original Horseshoe casino – what is now Binion's Gambling ...
Ameristar officially opened its new Casino Resort Spa complex in October 2009 to become the first destination resort casino in Colorado. The property's $230 million expansion included a 33-story luxury hotel and day spa , an enclosed rooftop swimming pool, and 15,000 square feet (1,400 m 2 ) of meeting and event space.
The following year it opened a second casino Horseshoe Casino Tunica. In 1999 the company grew more by acquiring Empress Casinos and its two casinos. In 2001, the Empress Casino in Joliet was sold to Argosy Gaming Company and the Empress Casino in Hammond was rebranded to the Horseshoe Casino Hammond which opened under the new name on May 4, 2001.