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Harveys Lake Tahoe Casino hosts a World Series of Poker Qualifier Event each year. This event typically takes place sometime in June, however the dates are subject to change. The dates for this year’s event are June 19, 2008 to June 21, 2008. On the first two days of the event there is a buy-in amount of $230.

Harveys Lake Tahoe is a hotel and casino located in Stateline, Nevada. It has 742 rooms and suites as well as six restaurants and a casino with 87,500 square feet (8,130 m²) of space. It also has a video arcade, wedding chapel, pool, convention center and a full-service health club. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by Caesars Entertainment.

History[edit]

Harvey's was originally opened in 1944 and operated by Sacramento meat wholesaler Harvey Gross and his wife Llewellyn. They opened the first high rise tower and an 11-story, 197-room hotel in Nevada just across the state line from Lake Tahoe, California in 1963.^[1]

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The hotel suffered an explosion from a 1,000-pound bomb on August 27, 1980, that left a crater three stories deep when it was detonated by the FBI. (The area around the hotel had been cleared and no one was injured.) The bomb was placed by John Birges, a heavily in-debt Fresno landscaper who had lost at least $1 million at casinos in Stateline and was hoping to extort $3 million from the bomb threat. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, where he died from liver cancer in 1996.^[2]

In 1983, Harvey Gross died at the age of 78; however, the company continued to operate under family management. In 1985, Harveys sold Harvey's Inn, northeast of Stateline, which reopened as the Lakeside Inn. The 18-story, $74 million, glass 'Lake Tower' opened in 1986,^[3] the same year the trademark 'Wagon Wheel' was replaced on the 11-story tower with the current Harveys brand.

In early 1992, Harveys entered a bidding war with Hilton Hotels Corporation over the right to buy Bally's Reno, which opened on May 3, 1978, as MGM Grand Reno (now Grand Sierra Resort). Harveys announced an agreement on a $71 million deal, only to see Hilton up the ante to $73 million and assumption of Bally's debt. Several weeks later, after considering even higher bids, a federal bankruptcy court settled the matter by approving Hilton's final $83 million offer.

After going public on February 15, 1994, Harveys began new projects including a joint venture with Hard Rock America for an $80 million casino in Las Vegas, which it later sold its interest in 1997 and then a casino resort in Central City, Colorado. A riverboat casino-convention center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, followed in early 1996.

In the late 1990s, Bill Cosby was signed on as the spokesman for Harveys.^[4] This included putting the actor's likeness on several of the casino chips^[5] and recording several specials at the casino.^[6]

In 1999, Colony Capital bought a controlling interest in Harveys Casino Resorts. Harveys announced on April 24, 2001, that it would be acquired by Harrah's Entertainment (later Caesars Entertainment) for $625 million.

On October 6, 2017, ownership of the property was transferred to Vici Properties as part of a corporate spin-off, and it was leased back to Caesars Entertainment.^[7][8]

References[edit]

1. ^'Harvey's hotel now open to the public,' Lake Tahoe News, April 5, 1963
2. ^'John Birges, Sr.,' The Associated Press, September 6, 1996
3. ^'Celebration set for new tower,' Tahoe Daily Tribune, June 26, 1986
4. ^http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/harveys-casino-resorts-history/
5. ^http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/nevada/TahoeStateline/Harveys/Harveys.htm
6. ^http://www.laketahoenews.net/2014/01/now-stateline-casino-ownership/
7. ^'Vici Properties Inc., completes spin-off from Caesars Entertainment Operating Company' (Press release). Vici Properties. October 6, 2017 – via NewsBank.
8. ^Form 424B4: Prospectus (Report). Vici Properties. February 2, 2018. pp. F-54 – via EDGAR.

• Ferchland, William (August 22, 2005). 'Harvey's bombing changed casinos forever'. Tahoe Daily Tribune.
• '25th anniversary of Harveys bombing'. Reno Gazette-Journal. August 2005.

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Media related to Harveys Lake Tahoe Resort and Casino at Wikimedia Commons

Overview

Elevate Your Adventure is Harveys Hotel and Casino’s tag line, and that’s exactly what you’ll get! Harveys was the first ever hotel-casino built in South Lake Tahoe. Harveys is more then a great place to stay, but a great place for Vegas style gambling and premier nightlife. Have a drink at the legendary Cabo Wabo Cantina, and get in on the action at any of the exhilarating craps tables, loose slots, or no limit hold ’em poker tables.

What is even better is Harrah’s and Harveys are connected by a tunnel, so don’t forget to check out what Harrah’s offers too!

Gaming Overview

Harveys Casino is 52,000sqft of 24/7 Vegas style gambling. Featuring everything from

the classics to the latest and greatest.

Minimums

Most everything is $5 by day, but up to $10 on busy nights.

Gaming Machines – 2,090 total

•Dime Slots, 7 machines

•Dollar Slots, 184 machines

•Five Dollar Slots, 40 machines

•Five Hundred Dollar Slots, 3 machines

•Hundred Dollar Slots, 21 machines

•IGT – Megabucks, 9 machines

•Multi-denomination Slots, 1,130 machines

•Nickel Slots, 36 machines

•Other Slots, 14 machines

•Penny Slots, 340 machines

•Quarter Slots, 279 machines

•Twenty Five Dollar Slots, 27 machines

Table and Poker Games – 180 total

•3 Card Poker, 7 tables

•Baccarat, 2 tables

•Blackjack, 94 tables

•Craps, 6 tables

•Let it Ride, 2 tables

•Mini-Baccarat, 6 tables

•Other Games, 13 tables

•Pai Gow Poker, 9 tables

•Pai Gow Tiles, 2 tables

•Poker, 21 tables

•Roulette, 12 tables

•Wheel-of-Fortune, 1 table

Other Gaming

•Keno – 4 seats

•Race Book

•Sports Book

POKER

Harveys Lake Tahoe Poker Room

Tournaments:

Morning Shoot-Out No-Limit Hold’em Tournament seven days a week: $40 buy-in

Tournament begins at 10 a.m. Registration at 9:30 a.m.

Sundays No-limit Hold ’em Tournament: $115 buy-in.

Tournament begins at 2 p.m. Registration at 1 p.m.

Tuesday & Thursday No-Limit Hold ’em Tournament: $80 buy-in

Tournament begins at 6 p.m. Registration at 5 p.m.

Friday No-Limit Hold ’em Tournament: $115 buy-in

Tournament begins at 6 p.m. Registration at 5 p.m.

The Harveys Poker Room also offers Limit Texas Hold ’em 3×6 with a $30 buy-in and 4×8 with a $40 buy-in.

Additionally No-Limit Hold ’em:

$2 and $3 blind with a $50 minimum and $300 max. Buy-in

$3 and $5 blind with a $300 minimum and $1,000 max. Buy-in

$5 and $10 blind with a $500 minimum no cap Buy-in

SLOTS

Harveys Casino is heard having the loosest slots, and when you hear they’re Megabucks machines have awarded more than $3 billion in major jackpots, you understand it’s true! Featuring new games like Wheel of Fortune Super Spin and the penny progressive Bally Hot Shot machine, you see that Harvey’s Casino has a large variety of slots, progressive games including Jackpot Party, Penny Train, Blazing 7s and multiple video poker progressives in different denominations.

KENO

Harveys has a 24-hour Keno lounge that offers two live action games, the Gold and Orange, and two computer drawn games, the Silver, which is also in the coffee shop, Sierra Choices. They also have the Red game, which runs every 70 seconds. Harveys has a variety of price options. $2 Regular, $2 Special, $5 Dream, $10 Catch-All as well as, the 25 cent Favorite, 10 cent Terrific and the new Pennies From Heaven game being offered at the Red game only, all with a maximum payout of $500,000! Harveys has Keno runners available in Sierra Choices Coffee shop. You can even view your game results in your hotel room and online.

BLACKJACK

“Winner Takes All Tournaments”

Every Thursday

Located in the Party Pit across from the Hard Rock Cafe

Sign-up’s begin at 5 p.m.

Tournament begins at 7 p.m.

$20 buy-in.

CRAPS

With six tables to roll the dice, your sure to get that hard eight.

Table Odds 3-4-5x

Limits $3, $5 & $10, to $3,000

Also some days there will be a table with $25 Minimum, which is rare, usually only when high rollers are in town. They will raise Maximum upon request. You can also reserve VIP table on request.

Nightlife and Restaurants

Harveys Outdoor Amphitheater

19 Kitchen~Bar

Cinnabon

Hard Rock Café

Sage Room Steak House

Sierra Choices Deli

Starbucks

The Cabo Wabo Cantina

What’s Nearby

• Golf – driving range and course

•Golf – miniature

•Snowboarding

•Snowmobiling

•Ice skating

•Snowshoeing

•Windsurfing

•Motor boating nearby

•Boat launch nearby

•Swimming on site

•Rowing or canoeing nearby

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•Sailing

•Tennis

•Running track/path nearby

•Yoga classes/instruction on site

•Mountain biking

•Bicycle rentals

•Hiking/biking trails

•Horse riding/rental

•Parasailing

•Helicopter/airplane sightseeing

•Fishing

•Playground

CASINO AMENITIES

Harveys has a great arcade to keep the kids busy while you bet the pass line. Check cashing and currency exchange. Valet parking and convenient garage parking.