Despite two additional outlets, casino revenue largely flat - 2004-01-23
Despite the addition of two new race track casinos in the past year, the amount of money state-licensed gambling halls won from gamblers was mostly flat in December from a year ago.

Louisiana's 14 riverboat casinos, the downtown casino in New Orleans and three slot-machine casinos at race tracks won $166 million in December, up slightly from $165.3 million in December 2002, state police said Tuesday.

A year ago, there was only one track casino at Delta Downs at Vinton. Last summer, Louisiana Downs at Bossier City opened its casino, while Evangeline Downs opened its slot casino in Opelousas on Dec. 19.
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Harrah's completes deal, plans to reopen Binion's Horseshoe - 2004-01-23
Harrah's Entertainment said Thursday that it had closed a deal to buy the legendary Binion's Horseshoe Hotel & Casino and would reopen the closed downtown Las Vegas property in time for the World Series of Poker tournament.

"Our first priority is to get the casino reopened," Harrah's president and chief executive Gary Loveman said the day after Harrah's officials signed what he said was a "definitive" sale agreement with the landmark casino's former owner Becky Binion Behnen.

"We certainly intend to preserve this rich tradition," Loveman said, adding that the casino would keep the name "Binion's Horseshoe."
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