From today's Review-Journal:

Binion's Horseshoe returned its keno lounge and hundreds of slot machines to operation late Monday after it was able to increase its state-mandated cash reserves to pay off big winners.

Gaming Control Board Chairman Dennis Neilander said Tuesday that the Horseshoe's bankroll now complies with state rules, but he declined to say how much the bankroll is. The property indicated in a recent court filing that it had to maintain a $1.2 million bankroll.

"They got some capital and were able to return machines to operation," Neilander said, noting that control board agents are closely monitoring the troubled casino's cash reserves to make sure gamblers get paid any winnings.

The casino's three closed table game pits remain out of operation, leaving only the main pit with table action. State gaming regulators last week ordered the Horseshoe to turn off an estimated 40 percent of its 1,300 slot machines, the keno game and three of the four table game pits after control board agents discovered a shortfall in Binion's bankroll.

Most of the slot machines that were turned off were on the less-used west side of the Horseshoe, the old Mint side. Some of those devices were turned on Friday after the casino added cash to the bankroll, and the rest of the disabled slots were turned on Monday.

Horseshoe owner Becky Binion Behnen and other property executives didn't return Tuesday phone messages.

Horseshoe Club Vice President Lynn Saladino said last week that the control board-ordered shutdown of Binion's slots and table games was caused "in good part by a temporary shortfall in the casino cage as a result of cashing payroll checks for Horseshoe employees."