Horseshoe Gaming Holding Corporation was established in 1993 with its only asset being the rights to use the Horseshoe name on

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s. The corporation was a private

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mostly owned by

Jack Binion Jack Binion is an American businessman. Binion is the son of casino magnate Benny Binion and worked for his father at Binion's Horseshoe, a casino and hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Biography Binion became president of the Horseshoe in 1963 a ...

History

In 1994, the company acquired the

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. The following year it opened a second casino

Horseshoe Casino Tunica Horseshoe Casino Tunica is a casino resort located in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi. It was developed by Jack Binion, the son of Las Vegas gaming legend Benny Binion, and named after his father's famous Binion's Horseshoe downtown gambling hall. Muc ...

. In 1999 the company grew more by acquiring

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and its two casinos. In 2001, the Empress Casino in Joliet was sold to

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and the Empress Casino in Hammond was rebranded to the

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which opened under the new name on May 4, 2001. In 2004 the corporation was sold to

Harrah's Entertainment Harrah's Entertainment (later named Caesars Entertainment Corporation, previously The Promus Companies) was an American casino and hotel company founded in Reno, Nevada, and based in Paradise, Nevada, that operated over 50 properties and seven go ...

which retained the corporation as the operating company for its Horseshoe branded casinos.

Casinos

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* Empress Casino

References

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External links

Horseshoe Casino Resorts on Harrahs.com
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