Horseshoe Closed!

[robb]

What are we going to do?

It was only a matter of time, Becky Binion Behnen was running that casino into the ground. Comps went downhill, the Steakhouse restuarant isn't as good, tables got much more expensive.

Bah, I'm just going to guess the corporations are going to take over the rest of downtown and the old Vegas will be finally dead.

Benny must be rolling over in his grave.

*cries*

[JBMoney]

Posted that on the front today. It sucks, but it kind of seemed inevitable. Every year it was loosing a little more of what made it unique.

Maybe it's a good thing if it gets Becky out of there.

[jillamanda]

:confused: OK, speaking as an ignorant Aussie, what's the Horseshoe and who's Becky?

[Rguess21]

One of the mainstay casinos in downtown Las Vegas, founded by Benny Binion. Becky is one of his daughters and she had bought the other kids out of the business.

http://www.binions.com/index1.htm

[jillamanda]

:) Thank you

[robb]

Becky ran the place after Benny Binion's son was murdered for a safe full of silver. The safe was proudly on display at the casino. Seems his girlfriend and her other boyfriend tried to make it look like it was a drug overdose or something.

From the Las Vegas Review Journal:

Ted Binion, whose family controls Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas, was found dead in his home Sept. 17, 1998. In May 2000, his girlfriend, Sandy Murphy, and her lover, Rick Tabish, were convicted of his murder and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. In 2003, their murder convictions were overturned and a new trial was ordered...

Linky (http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/binion/)


It was one of the last places you could find single deck blackjack for only $2 a hand. Most tables didn't have a limit either, even if there was a stated limit on the sign. If you played at a $2 table for a few hours the pit boss would give you a comp for a good steak dinner at the coffee shop. If you didnt have a comp, you could get the same dinner for $3 or something.

It was the last of old time 'vegas, where they took care of you. Of coure you didn't want to skip on a marker or else you would get your legs broken. But if you got completely wiped out, they might buy you a meal and a tank of gas to get home.

We used to get comps for suites, open comps at the fancy steakhouse running over $1000 for a table of eight, and watched our friend Steve play $5000 hands on a $2 table.

It is also home of the World Series of Poker, a Texas holdem Poker tournament that the winner takes home over a $1 million dollars.

All the good stuff went away after Benny and his son Ted were gone, and it has just been steadily running downhill over the last 5 years.

Ah... the good ole days.

[JBMoney]

I sat with Steve at $2 Horseshoe table once as he proceeded to go down to about $23,000 by 1am or so. You might say it was a pretty stressful time as Steve was kind of in to harassing the dealers (and every other foreigner at the table).

Anyhow, he went to the window and got a few thousand more bucks - I remember him showing me four $5,000 yellow slips when he got back. Fourty-five minutes later we left the table with him up $1800, went to the coffee shop and he bought me dinner, being the cheap whore I am. :D

[robb]

Ya, I watched him put about $35 grand down the box one night, and then get most of it back. That was on a New Years Trip. He got the rest back and more a few trips later.

He gets very rude when he is way down, especially to asian women dealers.

Also, I think the Horseshoe had the world record for the oldest cocktail waitress staff.

Ju care for drink?

[JBMoney]

Goddddd bless Americaaaaa

[robb]

HHoott Daammmnnn!

[JBMoney]

Give it away, give it away, give it away now!