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© MIKE LAWRENCE / COURIER & PRESS Sports gamers make their picks as the opening of the William Hill Sports Book at the Tropicana Evansville Thursday. The sports-book features a 16-by-9 feet video wall, ten 65-inch viewing monitors, and 12 odds boards, September 12, 2019.

Based on the mandate by Nevada Governor, Steve Sisolak, and in order to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, Tropicana Las Vegas will be requiring all persons in public areas to wear a mask covering the face and nose. Patrons may remove masks temporarily while eating or drinking or when asked by casino staff for identification.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Tropicana Evansville and most other casino properties in Indiana tentatively expect to reopen at 10 a.m. The plan is pending final approval of health and safety protocols.
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The grand reopening for the Tropicana hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will happen at 10 a.m. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Tropicana Evansville Casino and The Deli reopened on Monday, June 15. Tropicana Hotel and The Brew Brothers Tap House reopened on Thursday, June 18. The Tap House will be operating under a modified schedule and will be open Wednesday through Sunday.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — With about 13,000 employees sidelined statewide – including 529 in the Evansville area – Indiana casinos are eager to get back to business.

Gaming properties closed March 16 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tropicana Evansville and others across the state want to reopen by mid-June. There’s a lot to do before then.

“The industry as a whole is taking its responsibilities very seriously to provide a safe environment for team members and guests,” said Matt Bell, executive director of the Casino Association of Indiana.

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The association, Bell said, has shared with the Indiana Gaming Commission a set of “minimum standards” for worker and guest safety, and “every property should submit individual plans to meet or exceed those.”

Tropicana Evansville officials declined to comment, citing company policy. The local casino is owned by Eldorado Resorts.

“Obviously it’s going to look a little different from property to property because they all have unique nuances,” Bell said. “But there will be things like hand sanitizer stations throughout the floor. It’s going to be important our team members and guests have an opportunity to wear masks.

“We’ll set up our floors to accommodate social distancing, and that could look different casino to casino. Whether it’s occupying every other slot machine, or moving them to provide social distancing. We could do things like limit folks at a particular table game. We’ll have aggressive cleaning procedures, wiping down machines, tables and rails, trying to minimize touchpoints.”

Casinos also must evaluate things such as valet parking, which Bell said likely will not be offered at first, and buffet dining. Tropicana has multiple restaurants, plus a sportsbook that opened in September.

Bell noted that Gov. Eric Holcomb, in presenting his multi-phase process to reopen Indiana amid the pandemic, did not discuss reopening scenarios for casinos.

Bell surmised that might have been because of complexities casinos present.

“It’s a high-touch, social environment,” Bell said. “The challenge is, how do you find the right protective measures that give customers confidence to come back, without making it feel like a danger zone?”

Bell, though, believes mid-June is a realistic expectation for reopening. He said Indiana’s casino industry will search for best practices in safety.

“We’ll start to see some other markets come back in operation over the next couple weeks, so there are going to be opportunities to watch and learn,” Bell said.

Evansville city government has already cut $2.8 million from its 2020 budget due to Tropicana’s closure. That cut was based on an anticipated closure of two months. A mid-June reopening would extend the closure another month, potentially forcing another budget cut.

Road paving and blight removal were among the city programs negatively impacted by the first cut.

Ellis Park examining protocols

Ellis Park, meanwhile, is working with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and Gov. Andy Beshear's office on reopening timeframes and new safety protocols.

General Manager Jeff Inman said he did not want to speculate on a reopening date for the property's historic horse racing machines and restaurant.

© SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS Liz Morris, a jockey agent and retired jockey, wins the camel race as the crowd watches during the annual camel race at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., Saturday afternoon, July 6, 2019.

'Safety and cleanliness are paramount,' Inman said. 'There will be 6 feet between every game. We won’t reopen with a buffet. We will reopen with disposable utensils; we will wipe down often-used surfaces and will offer customers sanitizing wipes.'

The live horse racing season at Ellis Park is still scheduled to begin June 28. But there will be no live racing on Sept. 5, when the Kentucky Derby is rescheduled.

'We didn’t feel we could get in the way of the Super Bowl and World Series of horse racing,' Inman said. 'Those have been very collegial talks. We want a Kentucky Derby to happen.'

This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Tropicana Evansville, Ellis Park working on reopen schedules, safety protocols

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Caesars Entertainment has agreed to sell its Tropicana Casino in Evansville, Indiana, to Gaming and Leisure Properties, which in turn will lease the property to Twin River Worldwide Holdings.

Gaming and Leisure Properties (GLPI) acquired the casino for $340 million and will receive at least $28 million a year from Twin River in rent.

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The move for the Tropicana Casino comes months after a $17.3 billion merger between Caesars Entertainment and Eldorado gained Federal Trade Commission approval. One of the final pieces of regulatory approval for that merger happened in Indiana, where the state’s Gaming Commission okayed the deal on the condition that the merged company, operating under the Caesars brand, would sell three of its five Indiana properties.

At the time of the merger, the state commission projected that Caesars properties were responsible for 50%-60% of Indiana’s gaming revenues, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. That figure would dip under 40% under the new deal for the Evansville casino, the report said.

Eldorado CEO Thomas Reeg told the commission this summer that the merged company would sell the Tropicana, the Caesars Southern Indiana Casino in Elizabeth and the Horseshoe Hammond Casino.<

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