The 26-story hotel now named Horseshoe opened in late 1973 as the MGM Grand. It is scheduled to start this year on May 30.Īfter it ends in July, officials said an 18-table poker room will offer tournament-style play year-round. It drew nearly 200,000 players last year to Bally’s and the adjacent Paris Las Vegas and awarded almost $350 million in prizes.
The tournament that made championship bracelets and Texas Hold ‘em famous now runs for more than seven weeks.
Bally’s hotel-casino was part of that deal. A year later, Harrah’s bought Caesars Entertainment, which was purchased in 2020 by Eldorado Resorts, now called Caesars Entertainment Corp. Harrah’s Entertainment acquired the poker tournament in 2004 and moved it to the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino. Ted Binion’s death in 1998 sparked a sensational murder trial and eventual acquittal in 2004 of his ex-stripper, live-in girlfriend and her secret lover. Jack Binion and his brother, Ted Binion, worked at the downtown property, now known as Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel and operated by the corporate owner of the neighboring Four Queens.
