Ameristar Casinos Announces Senior Notes Offering

LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire - May 8, 2009) - Ameristar Casinos, Inc. ( NASDAQ : ASCA ) today announced that it plans to offer $500 million principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2014, subject to market conditions. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to prepay and permanently retire a portion of the revolving loans outstanding under its senior secured credit …

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Fri, May 8th, 2009

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  • Baccarat is the principal of casino card games in the United Kingdom and Europe. Blackjack is a fixture in all American casinos.
  • The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
  • Horse racing is the best known and widespread parimutuel betting event. Horse racing is the only form of partimutuel wagering legal in California.
  • Although baccara has its origins in medieval Italy, it soon spread to France, where it was called "chemin de fer" (meaning railway, due to the action of the card box or shoe passing around the table on "tracks").