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The Wind Creek Casino in Wetumpka is located on the banks of the Coosa River just northeast of Montgomery on Highway 231. The Poarch Band of Creek Indians invested $246 million to build this new deluxe casino resort on their tribal land. The grand opening of the Wind Creek.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Guests that visit Wind Creek Casino can now hit the slot machine at any hour of the day once again.

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On Oct. 1, Wind Creek began opening their locations for 24 hours a day after limiting their hours due to COVID-19. The Wetumpka location was the first to resume 24 hour operations, Wind Creek’s other properties followed soon after.

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In March, Wind Creek Casino closed all of its properties after they announced they had a positive COVID-19 case at their Wetumpka location. Wind Creek reopened their locations in early June with limited capacity and strict COVID-19 safety procedures in place. When they reopened to the public in June, their doors opened at 6 a.m. and closed at 3 a.m.

Wind Creek CEO Jay Dorris said remaining open around the clock still allows each facility enough time to deep clean.

“We do have some guests who, believe it or not, do like to visit during those early morning hours,” Dorris said. “We’re still able to keep our standard of deep cleaning by taking a section down, cleaning it, and then reopening it and moving on to another, but that doesn’t mean we need to close down the entire property.”

During Wind Creek’s shutdown, Dorris said they did not have to lay off any employees at any of their Alabama locations. They did, however, have to lay off many employees at their Bethlehem location in Pennsylvania.

Right now the casino floor is open to the public for four sessions each day, and the casino has cleaning crews deep clean in between sessions in addition to the cleaning efforts that take place at each machine before and after each guest.

Dorris said to accommodate guests, some of their locations have removed buffet tables to make more room for machines that can be placed at a social distance.

“The focus has always been to keep at least six feet of space between the games,” Dorris said. “We’ve used space that we hadn’t used in the past to do that but again its all focused on getting that 6 foot or more of separation.”

Wind Creek also has designated waiting areas with markings to support social distancing at all of their properties.

All guests and team members are required to wear masks at all times in public areas, and all guests and team members are temperature checked prior to entering the building.

“We are going to keep taking the steps that we think help keep people safe and we’ll keep them in place as long we need to,” Dorris said.

Wind Creek also continues to have a “no smoking” policy in place in all indoor public areas, including the gaming floor. The medical health advisors Wind Creek said they consulted advised that they temporarily prohibit smoking because they believe that exhaling smoke could potentially promote the spread of COVID-19.

Updated COVID-19 policies can be found on Wind Creek’s website.

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Alabama has had many 'electronic bingo' parlors which feature slot machines that are or are similar to Class II gaming machines. The legality of these vary from county to county, and are in a near-constant state of flux. In particular, most such parlors were closed through the efforts of an anti-gambling task force put in place by Gov. Bob Riley early in 2010. But in March 2010, the Alabama Supreme Court determined that Riley did not have the authority to convene such a task force, but that power rested with Attorney GeneralTroy King. Shortly after the task force was sidelined, e-bingo parlors reopened in cities which had previously enacted ordinances permitting and regulating such halls. Additionally, Victoryland also reopened after a brief closure. (Greenetrack and the three Poarch Band of Indians gaming facilities did not close.)

At one time, several counties in Alabama featured numerous e-bingo halls, most notably Walker County, with halls large and small mostly concentrated along the former U.S. Highway 78 between Jasper and the Jefferson County line, ranging in size from converted small storefronts to large halls with hundreds of machines. But a ruling in a lawsuit by the Walker County sheriff determined that the machines in the county's halls were illegal, and the halls were forced to close. District attorneys in Jefferson County used that ruling to justify their order of closure for halls in that county. However, several large halls in Fairfield remained open because the city had passed specific ordinances permitting them. Those halls closed during the governor's task force raids in January 2010, but reopened on March 12, 2010 when the task force was invalidated. They again closed briefly in April 2010, as a part of the ongoing controversy over their legality and a dispute over jurisdiction between Riley and King.

In late May 2010, in yet another legal action in the anti-gambling feud between Riley and King, the Alabama Supreme Court determined that Riley had the ultimate authority to appoint an anti-gambling task force. Riley then announced plans to reactivate the task force, and the district attorney in the Bessemer Cutoff area of Jefferson County (including Fairfield) advised halls there to shut down immediately, or risk having their machines seized. King announced he would no longer interfere with the governor's efforts. Halls began closures on May 24, 2010. Victoryland and Greenetrack remained open for the time being. Poarch Creek operations were not affected, as the state has no jurisdiction over them.

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Fairfield legalized large electronic bingo halls in mid-2009, with certain requirements for minimum number of gaming machines. Bamaco Bingo opened in September 2009 with more than 800 machines installed and announced plans for up to 5,000 machines. Two other large e-bingo halls, Bingo Fantastico and World Bingo, later opened adjacent to Bamaco, followed by Legacy Bingo in March 2010. All except Bingo Fantastico occupied empty 'big box' retail stores; Bingo Fantastico replaced a roller skating rink. Three other small bingo halls, including one that shared space with an automotive repair shop, were also located in Fairfield. The city received a permit fee of $100 per machine per month, and bingo was a major tax source for the city.

Bessemer, Alabama had some e-bingo halls in place, but their legality was in question due to a dispute between the city council, which voted to allow the halls, and the mayor, who opposed gambling. Those halls remained closed after the task force invalidation. Other smaller halls were located in cities and unincorporated areas near Bessemer; they also closed later.

Two other large e-bingo halls, Country Crossing in Dothan and White Hall Gaming Center between Selma and Montgomery, were shut down by the task force.

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Throughout the controversy, the Poarch Creek band's operations not only continued, they expanded. Facilities in Wetumpka, Atmore and suburban Montgomery added to their gaming floors, and the Wetumpka and Atmore facilities added new high-rise hotels.

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In July 2010, after all legal avenues were exhausted, state police and the task force shut down machines at Greenetrack in Eutaw, Alabama, then later at Victoryland. And on October 4, 2010, federal prosecutors filed charges against and arrested Victoryland owner Milton McGregor and several members of the Alabama State Senate in a corruption investigation regarding the entire affair.^[1]

In 2016, after winning a ruling in a federal court against the state, Victoryland reopened its electronic bingo floor on September 14, 2016.^[2]

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1. ^Byerele, Dana (2010-10-04). 'VictoryLand owner, state senators arrested'. The Tuscaloosa News.
2. ^Moon, Josh (September 14, 2016). ''Victoryland reopens to large crowd''. Montgomery Advertiser.

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