When Binion first opened the Horseshoe, he set the craps table limit at $500-ten times higher than any other casino in Las Vegas at the time. Binion also instituted high table limits. It was the first casino in downtown Las Vegas (also called Glitter Gulch) to replace sawdust-covered floors with carpeting, and was the first to offer comps to all gamblers, not just those who bet big money. The casino's interior had a frontier flavor, like an old-style riverboat, with low ceilings and velvet wallpaper.
History Binion's Horseshoe (1951–2004) īenny Binion bought the Eldorado Club and Hotel Apache in 1951, re-opening them as Binion's Horseshoe (also called the Horseshoe Casino). TLC reopened 81 of the rooms as a boutique hotel called Hotel Apache in July 2019. The hotel, which had 366 rooms, closed in 2009. The casino is named for its founder, Benny Binion, whose family ran it from its founding in 1951 until 2004. Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel, formerly Binion's Horseshoe, is a casino on Fremont Street along the Fremont Street Experience mall in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.
