Cactus Petes Resort Casino is a

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and

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located in

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. It is owned by

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and operated by

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. It has 296 rooms and of casino floor space. The casino offerings include more than 600 slot machines, including reels, video poker, video reels and video keno; two gaming pits featuring 20 table games; a seven-table live poker room and a keno lounge and sports book.

History

After

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outlawed all forms of casino gaming in 1954, "Cactus Pete" Piersanti moved his

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operations from Idaho to the Jackpot town site less than 1 mile (0.6 km) from the Idaho/Nevada border on

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. Piersanti's gaming establishment was named Cactus Pete's Desert Lodge. The establishment of Cactus Pete's and the nearby Horseshu Club in the same year is considered the founding of the town of Jackpot. Cactus Pete's took over management of the neighboring Horseshu Club in 1964. In 1991, Cactus Pete's completed a $22 million hotel and casino expansion making the property become one of the largest gaming facilities in

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. Designed by Steelman Partners, the expansion included adding a 10 story hotel tower, restaurants and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Cactus Pete's is one of the largest employers in Southern Idaho. In 1993,

Ameristar Casinos Ameristar Casinos, Inc. was a casino operator based in Paradise, Nevada. It was acquired by Pinnacle Entertainment in 2013. The company had eight properties in seven markets. History The roots of Ameristar Casinos date to 1954 when "Cactus Pet ...

was founded as the parent company of Cactus Pete's and Ameristar Casino Vicksburg. In August 2013, the property became part of

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when that company acquired Ameristar Casinos. In April 2016, the property was sold to

along with almost all of Pinnacle's real estate assets, and leased back to Pinnacle. Penn National Gaming (now Penn Entertainment) acquired the operations of Cactus Pete's in October 2018 as part of the acquisition of Pinnacle.

Casino

Casino games include slot machines and table games tables including Royal Match Blackjack tables, Crap tables, Let it Ride Bonus tables, 3-Card Poker games, Roulette and Ultimate Texas Hold'em. The Texas Hold'em poker room also hosts weekly tournaments.

Entertainment

Cactus Petes offers a variety of entertainment. The casino has a cabaret lounge that has band most nights of the week. Cactus Petes also has both an indoor concert hall called the Gala Showroom and an outdoor amphitheater. Concerts held at Cactus Petes have ranged from

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and from

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