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Gaming History - Week of October 06, 2024
 
October 6th
2024 - Sunday

1934 - Las Vegas, NV.   Barrel House Casino opens, 22 E. Fremont St., Las Vegas.

 
October 7th
2024 - Monday

1931 - Reno, NV.   The Keno Club opened at 6:30 p.m., at 232 North Virginia Street. The club initially opened with just keno (bingo), but added table games soon after. The Keno Club closed in December of 1931. In August of 1932 it reopened as the New Keno Club, with new owners. It closed again in the same year, then reopened as the Reno Club.

1952 - Las Vegas, NV.   The hotel was formerly known as the Sahara Hotel and Casino. It was in operation under that name for 59 years from 1952 to 2011. The hotel had 1,720 guestrooms and suites with a casino covering more than 85,000 square feet and sits on 55 acres including the empty adjoining land. The hotel is the site of the Sahara Ave station, the northernmost stop for the Las Vegas Monorail. The Sahara was one of the last remaining vintage "Rat Pack" casino-hotels, leaving only the Flamingo, The Riviera, Caesars Palace, and The Tropicana. The Sahara anchored the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The porte-cochere entrance, topped by an onion-dome minaret, was designed to set the resort's warm Moroccan flavor and hospitality for arriving guests.
Link to: Sahara Hotel Wikipedia

1955 - Las Vegas, NV.   The Golden Gate Hotel & Casino is located at One Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the United States. A part of the Fremont Street Experience, it is the oldest and smallest hotel (106 rooms) on the Fremont Street Experience.
Link to: Golden Gate Casino Website   Link to: Golden Gate Casino Wikipedia

 
October 8th
2024 - Tuesday

1987 - Atlantic City, NJ.   The Golden Nugget casino became Bally's Grand.
Link to: Ballys Grand Wikipedia

 
October 9th
2024 - Wednesday

2009 - Wellington, Kansas.   Greg Susong died. Greg was responsible for: The ChipBoard, The ChipGuide, The StrikePoint, and The Slot Card BBS. He is a member of the CC&GTCC Hall of Fame. He was the webmaster of the CC&GTCC website. He ran the Tuesday night before the start of the annual CC&GTCC convention Online Chippers Party at the Palms Casino. A tradition started during the convention's run at the Riviera was Friday lunch at Kady's Coffee Shop, which we named in his honor, the Susong Burger Lunch. He was one of the four Limo Studs. He beamed the convention by webcam to those who could not attend. He was an organizer of the Wednesday night online Chippers poker tournament. He turned a hobby of remote individuals into a community. A community of friends. His contributions to the hobby are second to none.
Link to: Greg Susong on YouTube

2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada.   Implusion.
Link to: Implusion Video on YouTube

 
October 10th
2024 - Thursday

1931 - Las Vegas, NV.   Tango Parlor opens at 123 South Main Street, downtown Las Vegas, closes in 5 months - a/k/a Tango Club.

1944 - Reno, NV.   The Nevada Bar was licensed to offer roulette and Keno (bingo) at 1002 East Fourth Street. .

2016 - Atlantic City NJ.   In February 2016, Trump Entertainment Resorts exited bankruptcy and became a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises. The casino retained the name "Trump Taj Mahal", though Donald Trump no longer held any ownership stake. Shortly thereafter, an agreement was announced for the Taj Mahal to be managed by another Icahn affiliate, Tropicana Entertainment. Icahn also stated he would withhold a planned $100-million investment into the property if New Jersey approved casinos in the northern region of the state.On August 3, 2016, it was announced that the Trump Taj Mahal shut down permanently on October 10, 2016. .
Link to: Trump Taj Mahal Wikipedia

 
October 12th
2024 - Saturday

1957 - Curacao.   Curacao Intercontinental casino opens, closes in 1970.


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