Boomtown Reno Hosts New Year's Bash

RENO, Nevada -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Boomtown Casino and Hotel Reno will toast 2006 with a New Year's Eve celebration of free champagne, party favors and free live entertainment.

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve will start the festivities as it is broadcast on casino and bar plasma televisions. Guests can accompany America's quintessential New Year's countdown show with free Boomtown party favors and noisemakers.

Then, as the New Year arrives, a balloon drop will cover Boomtown's outer cabaret area and southeast casino floor with colorful balloons. The New Year will also be toasted with free champagne.

In the Family Fun CenterSM, a balloon drop will welcome 2006. Free cookies and refreshments will also be served in the Fun Center's award-winning party room.

Boomtown's Can Can TheaterSM will rock in the New Year with a free performance by the Lelands from 7 p.m.. to 4 a.m. The free performances will highlight a band with a long history of unique music. Lelands bandleader Lee Henriksen has been performing smooth melodies since forming the Lelands in 1961 in Hawaii. Since then, the group has been bopping out cover hits of the 40s to new millennium favorites. Smooth tunes of all genres, from rock, Texas two-step and blues to country and swing, emanate from the band's assortment of guitars, trumpets, trombones and piano.

Boomtown Casino and Hotel is located just seven miles west of Reno on Interstate 80 at Boomtown exit #4. Boomtown offers nearly 42,000 square feet of gaming excitement with the latest in slots and video poker, #1-rated Blackjack, as well as Craps, Pai Gow, Roulette, 3-5-7 Poker, keno, poker, a complete sports book, a Family Fun CenterSM and five delectable dining choices - Cassidy'sSM, the Silver Screen Buffet, Sundance CantinaSM, Drovers Inn RestaurantSM and Starbucks. For traveler convenience, Boomtown also offers 318 deluxe rooms and suites, indoor swimming pool, room service, bell service, free valet parking, 10,500 square feet of convention space, 203-space RV Park, 24-hour mini-mart gas station and a 20-acre trucker's complex.

Pinnacle Entertainment owns casinos in Nevada, Mississippi, Louisiana, Indiana and Argentina, owns a hotel in Missouri, and receives lease income from two card club casinos in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Company opened a major casino resort in Lake Charles, Louisiana in May 2005 and a new casino in Neuquén, Argentina in July 2005. Pinnacle has also been selected for two casino development projects in the St. Louis, Missouri area. The casino operations in St. Louis are dependent upon final approval by the Missouri Gaming Commission.