Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Herbst approved to buy slot route, Terrible’s Searchlight casino

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Gaming Commission has approved the application of long-time Las Vegas gaming figure Jerry Herbst to buy slot machine operations in 86 convenience stores and to purchase Terrible’s Searchlight casino in Searchlight.

Affinity Gaming LLC is selling its interests.

Herbst, chairman of JETT Gaming, said, “The properties have been an important part of Herbst for a considerable length of time, and we welcome the employees from those operations back to the Herbst family,“ he said.

A.H. “Bud” Hicks, representing Herbst, said the Herbst family owned about 100 of the Terrible Herbst convenience stores, with Herbst sons running the restricted slot machines.

Hicks said the sons got caught in the economic downturn and ended up in bankruptcy. A reorganization plan was approved, and the creditors ended up owning the slot route and the Searchlight casino.

Hicks said the creditors changed the name to Affinity Gaming, and Jerry Herbst is buying the slot route in the 86 stores and the casino in Searchlight from Affinity Gaming.

There are 626 slot machines in those Terrible’s stores, most of them located in Clark County.

Affinity is selling its other slot machine route and two casinos in Pahrump to Blake Sartini. Affinity, meanwhile, will get three casinos in Colorado from Sartini in the deal.

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