Pinnacle Entertainment Closes Issuance of $450 Million of New 8.625% Senior Notes

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: PNK) announced today that it has closed the previously announced private offering of $450 million aggregate principal amount of new 8.625% senior notes due 2017. The

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Tue, August 11th, 2009

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  • 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").
  • Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
  • Up to the 1960s, Nevada was plagued by teamster financing, hidden ownership, employment of individuals of questionable character and background, and the clear links to organized crime.
  • 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.