Buffalo Bill’s Resort & Casino is famous for its 225-foot, 95-mph Desperado roller coaster, which was once the tallest and fastest coaster in the world. Buffalo Bill's is a hotel and casino in Primm, Nevada, United States, at the California state line. It is one of the Primm Valley Resorts, owned and operated by Affinity Gaming. It has 1,242 guest rooms and suites. Where is Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino located? Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino is located at 31900 South Las Vegas Blvd., 0.2 miles from the center of Primm. Star of the Desert Arena is the closest landmark to Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino. Buffalo Bill’s Casino features 39 table games, live poker, and 1,723 slot machines. Several restaurants, including Miss Ashley's Boarding House Buffet and Guillermo's Cantina & Cocina, are located on site. Each room at Buffalo Bill’s Resort and Casino includes cable TV and a seating area. Buffalo Bill’s Hotel and Casino is a budget-friendly hotel in the mid-class range that is located a short mile away from the Whiskey Pete’s Casino. The Buffalo Bill’s Casino us one of the well-decorated hotels in the region, available at the most affordable price range that it offers.
The biggest sweat for bookmakers at Seneca Creek Casino in downtown Buffalo often begins before the Bills game even kicks off, and it's not the heavy betting action on the red-hot hometown team that concerns them most. Instead, as Bills fans arrive at the sportsbook each Sunday, the staff's focus is on the furniture.
'You see the blue start coming in, the Bills logos, and we've got to calm them down a little bit. These guys get super excited about their team,' Gavin Mercado, who oversees the sportsbook operations at Seneca's three Buffalo-area casinos, told ESPN with a chuckle. 'We have to kid around and tell them, 'Listen, we have some tables around here, we can't have you guys jumping through them.'
The tables in the sportsbook have survived the regular season, 'thankfully,' Mercado said, but it's playoff time now, and betting on the Bills is all the rage in Buffalo.
'The energy keeps growing week to week,' Mercado said.
The Bills are 6.5-point favorites over the visiting Indianapolis Colts in Saturday's first playoff game of the weekend. As of Thursday evening, about 80% of the bets on the game were on the Bills at Seneca sportsbooks.
Nearly half of all bets -- 47% -- on the odds to win the Super Bowl have been on the Bills at Seneca's books. There are nearly five times more bets on the Bills than on the Kansas City Chiefs, the Super Bowl favorites and the second-most heavily bet. In comparison, at William Hill U.S. sportsbooks around the nation, five teams have attracted more Super Bowl bets than the Bills: the Chiefs, Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks and Pittsburgh Steelers. At Seneca, there are more Bills bets than those five teams combined.
The betting interest on the Bills has expanded outside of Buffalo, including some large wagers. DraftKings reported taking a $9,900 Super Bowl bet on the Bills at 12-1 that would win a net $118,800, and William Hill U.S. said it took at $6,000 bet on the Bills at 35-1 earlier in the season that would pay a net $210,000.
'We don't do very well with the Bills,' Nick Bogdanovich, director of trading for William Hill U.S., noted in a company release. 'We have a lot of money on Buffalo.'
The Bills are +650 to win the Super Bowl at Seneca sportsbooks, odds that are in line with the market in other states.
Despite the lopsided action and any potential costs for damaged tables, Mercado laughed when asked what would happen to his sportsbook's bottom line if the Bills won the Super Bowl.
'If the Bills won the Super Bowl, I can tell you right now that Western New York would be excited, have money in their pockets and would be coming back to place some more wagers,' Mercado said. 'We're rooting for them. We want to see this happen.'
But do the tables?
| Formerly | Primadonna Resorts, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Industry | Gaming, hospitality |
| Founded | 1990; 31 years ago |
| Founder | Gary Primm |
| Headquarters | Primm, Nevada, U.S. |
| Owner | Affinity Gaming |
| Website | Official website |
Primm Valley Casino Resorts (formerly known as Primadonna Casino Resorts) is a group of three hotel-casinos in Primm, Nevada, along Interstate 15 at the California state line. They are owned and operated by Affinity Gaming. It is named after the Primm family, benefactors of the hotel and casino properties by Ernest and Gary Primm.
The hotels are a popular stop on the drive between Las Vegas and California.
Primm Valley Resort And Casino
The various hotels are connected across I-15 by both a monorail and a defunct amusement train line that was connected with Buffalo Bill's and Whiskey Pete's.
History[edit]
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The hotels were built by Gary Primm and the Primm family at State Line, Nevada, the informal name for the area. The family's history in the area is the reason why it received the official name of Primm.
Whiskey Pete's was the first of their hotels. The Primadonna Resort was the second hotel built, and it was later renamed as the Primm Valley Resort. These two hotels are connected by a single car monorail across the I-15.
Buffalo Bill's was the third hotel built. Buffalo Bill's and Primm Valley Resort are connected by a monorail.
The company acquired an option to buy an 18-acre site on the Las Vegas Strip.[1]Gary Primm of Primadonna Resorts approached MGM Grand Inc. president Bob Maxey in 1994 with an idea for the site: a casino recreating the New York skyline.[2] A joint venture was formed between the two companies, and construction began in March 1995.[3] Completed at a cost of $460 million, the New York-New York Hotel and Casino opened in January 1997.[4]
The Las Vegas Outlet Mall was added as a part of the Primadonna Resort in 1998.[5]
On March 1, 1999, MGM Grand Inc. acquired Primadonna Resorts in an all-stock transaction that had been announced on November 9, 1998.[6]
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Since the initiation of New York-New York, analysts had speculated that MGM Grand or Primadonna would buy out the other's interest in the project.[7] Instead of making such a cash-intensive purchase,[8] however, MGM agreed to buy Primadonna outright for $276 million in stock plus $336 million in assumed debt.[9] The merger closed in March 1999,[10] giving MGM ownership of three casinos and two golf courses at the Nevada–California state line, in addition to full control of New York-New York.
On October 31, 2006, MGM announced plans to sell Primm Valley Resorts to Herbst Gaming for $400 million. The proposed sale would not include the Primm Valley Golf Club.[11] The sale closed on April 10, 2007.
Operations[edit]
- Several gas stations and convenience stores that surround the casinos and the lottery and convenience store located on a portion of the property in California.
Former[edit]
- New York-New York Hotel and Casino (50% with MGM Grand Inc.)
References[edit]
- ^Burbank, Jeff (November 14, 1992). 'Kerkorian to buy corner of Tropicana, Strip'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. – via Factiva (subscription required)
- ^Palermo, Dave (August 5, 1994). 'New resort to join Strip lineup'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. – via Factiva (subscription required)
- ^Green, Marian (March 31, 1995). 'Las Vegas gets taste of Big Apple'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. – via Factiva (subscription required)
- ^Berns, Dave (January 4, 1997). 'Visitors rush to see little Big Apple'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. – via Factiva (subscription required)
- ^Spillman, Benjamin (April 4, 2007). 'Primm mall set to add space'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. p. 1D.
- ^'MGM Grand, Inc. And Primadonna Resorts, Inc. Announce Merger'. Breaking Travel News. November 9, 1998. Retrieved April 11, 2007.
- ^Smith, Hubble (November 10, 1998). 'MGM makes $600 million offer to buy Primadonna'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. – via Factiva (subscription required)
- ^Berns, Dave (October 15, 1998). 'Primadonna declines MGM buyout'. Las Vegas Review-Journal.
- ^'MGM Grand agrees to buy Primadonna in $276.1 million deal'. Wall Street Journal. November 10, 1998.
- ^'MGM Grand/Primadonna Resorts Buy -2: In Stock Swap'. Dow Jones News Service. March 1, 1999. – via Factiva (subscription required)
- ^Stutz, Howard (November 1, 2006). 'Herbst Gaming to buy Primm properties'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on March 9, 2007. Retrieved March 13, 2007.