Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati (formerly Jack Cincinnati Casino and Horseshoe Cincinnati) is a

casino A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling. Casinos are often built near or combined with hotels, resorts, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships, and other tourist attractions. Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertai ...

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

, owned by

Vici Properties Vici Properties Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in casino properties, based in New York City. It was formed in 2017 as a spin-off from Caesars Entertainment Corporation as part of its bankruptcy reorganization. It own ...

and operated by

Hard Rock International Hard Rock Cafe, Inc. is a British-based multinational chain of theme restaurants, memorabilia shops, casinos and museums founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in London. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and rol ...

. It opened in 2013.

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The two-story casino is and has 2,000 slot machines, 85 table games and a 31-table World Series of Poker room.Coolidge, Alexander. “Cincy casino to open March 4.” Cincinnati.com. Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2012. Web. 12 Dec 2012. It is located on a site on the northeast side of

Downtown Cincinnati Downtown Cincinnati is the central business district of Cincinnati, Ohio, as well the economic and symbiotic center of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. It also contains a number of urban neighborhoods in the low land area between the Ohio ...

. Mr. Lucky's, Cincinnati Food Hall, Starbucks, and Prism are located inside the facility. Gross casino revenues are taxed at 33 percent, one of the highest rates in the nation for a resort casino with this level of investment. Portions of the tax revenue are designated for public school districts; the four host cities; all 88 state counties; the Ohio State Racing Commission; law enforcement training; and research and treatment of problem gambling and substance abuse.

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Ohio voters approved a state constitutional amendment in November 2009 authorizing one casino in each of the state's four largest cities: Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and Toledo. It was the fifth statewide vote to legalize gambling in Ohio over 20 years. Construction at the site formerly known as Broadway Commons began in February 2011. The Horseshoe Casino opened on March 4, 2013. It was the last of the four voter-approved full-service casinos to open in the state. Horseshoe Cincinnati was initially owned and operated by Rock Ohio Caesars, a joint venture between

Caesars Entertainment Caesars Entertainment, Inc., formerly Eldorado Resorts, Inc., is an American hotel and casino entertainment company founded and based in Reno, Nevada that operates more than 50 properties. Eldorado Resorts acquired Caesars Entertainment Corpora ...

and

Dan Gilbert Daniel Gilbert (born January 17, 1962) is an American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and majority owner of Rocket Mortgage, founder of Rock Ventures, and owner of the National Basketball Association ...

Rock Gaming Jack Entertainment (formerly known as Rock Gaming LLC from 2009 to 2016) is a Gambling, gaming, hospitality, and entertainment company based in Cleveland, Ohio. The company operates two gaming facilities in Ohio, Jack Cleveland Casino and Jack Th ...

. Rock Ohio Caesars also opened Ohio’s first casino,

Horseshoe Casino Cleveland Jack Cleveland Casino (formerly Horseshoe Cleveland) is a casino in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, owned by Vici Properties and operated by Jack Entertainment. Casino Jack Cleveland Casino is located in the former Higbee Building at Tower City Center ...

, in May 2012. Rock Ohio Caesars was the first operator to be licensed by the

Ohio Casino Control Commission The Ohio Casino Control Commission (OCCC) is a gaming control board in Ohio that provides oversight of the state's casinos. History In 1990, several Ohio cities filed petitions to the Ohio General Assembly to authorize casino gambling in the sta ...

on May 2, 2012. JACKCincinnatiCasio 2017

The property was rebranded as Jack Cincinnati Casino in June 2016, as part of Rock Gaming's rebrand to Jack Entertainment. In 2019, Jack Entertainment sold the property for $745 million to

and

, with Vici acquiring the land and buildings for $558 million and Hard Rock buying the operating business for $187 million. Hard Rock leased the casino from Vici for $43 million per year, and stated that it would rebrand the property as Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati.

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