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Maverick Gaming. Maverick Gaming is an American casino company based in Kirkland, Washington. [2] It owns 22 card rooms in the state. [3][4] It is headed by Eric Persson who is a citizen of the Shoalwater Bay Tribe. [3]
The Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Pacific County, Washington, United States. The tribe is descended from the Lower Chehalis and the Willapa (Shoalwater) Chinook peoples. [1] [2] [3] In 2016, the tribe had 373 enrolled citizens. [2] The Shoalwater Bay Tribe governs the Shoalwater Bay Indian ...
Shoalwater Bay Casino: Tokeland: Pacific: Washington: Native American: Owned by the Shoalwater Bay Tribe: Silver Reef Casino Resort: Ferndale: Whatcom: Washington: Native American: Owned by the Lummi Nation: Skagit Casino Resort: Bow: Skagit: Washington: Native American: Owned by the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe; formally Harrah's Skagit Casino ...
Shortly thereafter the name was changed to Tokeland Hotel, in honor of the Shoalwater Bay Tribe's Chief Toke, for whom Toke Point was also named. From 1899 to 1915, William and Lizzie Kindred operated the general store out of the hotel and on December 9, 1898, William Kindred became the third Tokeland Postmaster, a role in which he served until ...
Eric Persson. Eric Persson is an American businessman and co-founder and CEO of Maverick Gaming. Persson is also known for participating in a cash game poker match that yielded one of the largest pots in American televised poker history, $1,978,000, and for owning/operating the Maverick Gaming casinos in Nevada, Colorado, and Washington. [1][2]
Several Coast Salish tribes also maintain such casinos, such as the Muckleshoot or the Skokomish, the Tulalip, the Shoalwater Bay tribe, the Upper Skagit, and as of 2009, the Snoqualmie. At the same time, some tribes are showing tremendous growth.
Shoalwater Bay is a large bay on the Capricorn Coast of Central Queensland, Australia 100 km north of the coastal town of Yeppoon and 628 km north-north-west of the state capital, Brisbane. Since 1966, the land surrounding Shoalwater Bay has been under the ownership of the Australian Defence Force , for the purpose of military training exercises.
The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation is a federally recognized tribe located in Southwest Washington. They are a part of the Northern Straits branch Central Coast Salish peoples of Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast. The Confederated Tribes' traditional territories were along the Black, Chehalis, Cowlitz, Elk, Johns ...