Binion’s Horseshoe Bonus Stories
Read MoreSome great stories from the old days of Binion’s Horseshoe.
Read MoreSome great stories from the old days of Binion’s Horseshoe.
Read MoreThis is the final segment in my trilogy on the closing of Binion’s Horseshoe.
Read MoreToday is January 9th, 2014.
Ten years ago today, a Las Vegas landmark was forcibly shut down.
Binion’s Horseshoe, the crumbling ruin of a former empire and the final vestige of the Old West that had once transformed dusty Las Vegas into a neon-lit magnet of vice, shuddered its windows and padlocked its doors.
Archie Karas poses at a craps table at Binion’s Horseshoe, circa 1995, during the greatest run in gambling history. (Photo courtesy of Sexton’s Corner)
Read MoreIf the legendary man who nearly “broke the bank at Monte Carlo” has a modern-day reincarnate, he is most certainly Archie Karas.