Twin River Casino
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| Headquarters | 100 Twin River Road Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA |
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| Website | www.twinriver.com |
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Twin River Casino, previously Lincoln Greyhound Park, is a casino and former race track in Lincoln, Rhode Island. The facility has over 160,000 square feet (15,000 m2) of gaming space, with over 4,200 video slot machines and virtual table games, as well as 108 live table games, including a gaming mix of blackjack, roulette, craps, poker and more. Other amenities include an 29,000-square-foot (2,700 m2) event center, four restaurants, three food courts, several bars, and a racebook. Twin River offers both smoking and non-smoking casinos. In December 2015 Twin River opened its first poker room with 16 live cash games. (No tournaments) they offer No limit, limit,and stud games in various amounts. The poker room is open 24 hours.
Lincoln Downs opened on July 7, 1947. It was built by B. A. Dario, owner of the Pascoag Park Racetrack in Pascoag, Rhode Island, and accommodated 5,800 spectators in the grandstand, plus 2,000 more in the clubhouse and turf club.
In 1976, Dario closed the track early, stating that it had lost $400,000 in 28 days, due to the loss of customers to Connecticut's off-track betting and jai alai, and the state's refusal to allow the track to keep a larger share of the betting handle. Later that year, Dario sold his 82 percent controlling interest in the park to the Taunton Greyhound Association. The track was renamed as Lincoln Greyhound Park, and began its first season of greyhound racing in June 1977.
In April 1977, Dario claimed he had a deal to purchase Narragansett Park, but those claims proved unsubstantiated.
In December 1989, the owners, Alfred Ross and Joseph Linsey of Florida, agreed to sell Lincoln Greyhound Park, along with four other dog tracks in Colorado and South Dakota, for an estimated total of $80 million to United Track Racing, a joint venture between Wembley plc (the British parent company of Wembley Stadium) and United Tote (a Montana-based supplier of computerized wagering systems for racetracks). United Tote was charged with managing the tracks, due to Wembley's lack of experience in the American pari-mutuel market. Wembley bought out United Tote's 20 percent stake in the company in August 1992.
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