For Immediate Release

 

FULL HOUSE RESORTS ADDED TO RUSSELL MICROCAP INDEX

 

Las Vegas – June 30, 2008 – Full House Resorts announced today that the company was added to the Russell Microcap Index on June 27 when Russell Investments reconstituted its family of U.S. indexes.

 

Membership in the Russell Microcap Index, which remains in place for one year, means automatic inclusion in the appropriate growth and value style indexes. Russell determines membership for its equity indexes primarily by objective, market-capitalization rankings and style attributes.

 

“Our inclusion in the Russell Microcap Index is another significant milestone for Full House,” said Chief Executive Officer Andre Hilliou. “The addition to the index dovetails perfectly with our recent growth and holds the potential of providing increases in liquidity and in the amount of institutions that may hold the stock.”

 

Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading $4.4 trillion in assets currently are benchmarked to them.

 

Annual reconstitution of Russell indexes captures the 4,000 largest U.S. stocks as of the end of May, ranking them by total market capitalization to create the Russell 3000® Index and Russell Microcap. These investment tools originated from Russell's multi-manager investment business in the early 1980s when the company saw the need for a more objective, market-driven set of benchmarks in order to evaluate outside investment managers.

 

Total returns data for the Russell Microcap and other Russell Indexes is available at http://www.russell.com/Indexes/performance/daily_total_returns_us.asp.

 

About Full House Resorts, Inc.

 

Full House owns, develops and manages gaming facilities. Full House owns the Stockman’s Casino in Fallon, Nevada which has 8,400 square feet of gaming space with approximately 260 gaming machines, four table games and a keno game.  The casino has a bar, a fine dining restaurant and a coffee shop. Full House also receives a guaranteed fee from the operation of Harrington Raceway and Casino at the Delaware State Fairgrounds in Harrington, Delaware. Harrington Raceway and Casino recently completed an expansion resulting in a total of approximately 2,100 gaming devices, a buffet, gourmet steakhouse, other food and beverage outlets and an entertainment lounge.  Full House also has a management agreement with the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians for the development and management of a first-class casino/resort with 2,500 gaming devices, 90 table games and 20 poker tables in the Battle Creek, Michigan area, which is currently under construction.  In addition, Full House has been working with the Northern Cheyenne Nation of Montana for the development and management of a 27,000 square foot gaming facility.  Further information about Full House can be viewed on its web site at www.fullhouseresorts.com.

 

About Russell:

 

Russell Investments aims to improve financial security for people by providing strategic advice, world-class implementation, state-of-the-art performance benchmarks, and a range of institutional-quality investment products. With more than $213 billion in assets under management, Russell serves individual, institutional and advisor clients in more than 40 countries. Russell provides access to some of the world’s best money managers. It helps investors put this access to work in corporate defined benefit and defined contribution plans, and in the life savings of individual investors.

 

Founded in 1936, Russell is a subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Headquartered in Tacoma, Wash., U.S., Russell has principal offices in Amsterdam, Auckland, Johannesburg, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.

 

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For further information, contact:

Mark Miller, Chief Financial Officer
Full House Resorts, Inc.
702-221-7800
www.fullhouseresorts.com

Or

William R. Schmitt

Integrated Corporate Relations

203-682-8200

investors@fullhouseresorts.com