GAMING LEGACY PODCAST: Jack Binion, Founder, Horseshoe Gaming

By Fri, May 23, 2025

This inaugural edition of the Gaming Legacy Podcast features Jack Binion, a legend in the industry not only in Las Vegas, but all over the U.S. under the Horseshoe brand.

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Jack Binion first arrived in Vegas with his father Benny in 1947. He eventually ran the Horseshoe casino in Downtown Las Vegas and helped to found the WSOP, the seminal poker tournament held each year. He later started Horseshoe Gaming, one of the most successful regional casino companies, with casinos in Tunica, Mississippi; Bossier City, Louisiana; Council Bluffs, Iowa and elsewhere. In every market, the Horseshoe casino was the market leader. He sold the company to Caesars Entertainment in 2000 and continues to advise casinos on how to run a gaming establishment and how to treat customers. He sat down with the host Roger Gros for the first episode of the Gaming Legacy Podcast at his offices in Las Vegas in April 2025.

Articles by Author: Roger Gros

Roger Gros is publisher of Global Gaming Business, the industry’s leading gaming trade publication, and all its related publications. Prior to joining Global Gaming Business, Gros was president of Inlet Communications, an independent consulting firm. He was vice president of Casino Journal Publishing Group from 1984-2000, and held virtually every editorial title during his tenure. Gros was editor of Casino Journal, the National Gaming Summary and the Atlantic City Insider, and was the founding editor of Casino Player magazine. He was a co-founder of the American Gaming Summit and the Southern Gaming Summit conferences and trade shows.
Roger Gros is the author of the best-selling book, "How to Win at Casino Gambling" (Carlton Books, 1995), now in its fourth edition. Gros was named “Businessman of the Year” for 1998 by the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Gaming Association in 2012 as part of the annual AGA Communications Awards.

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