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Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis names new execs

BAY ST. LOUIS, Mississippi – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis announced the hiring of Bernadette Hanson as the casino resort's new senior director of finance and chief financial officer. Joseph Phelps has been hired as director of player development.

Before joining Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis Ms. Hanson was with Harrah's Casino in Metropolis, Illinois where she has held the position of vice president of finance since 2000. She began her gaming career, in 1993, as the vice president of finance at the Players Riverboat Casino in Metropolis, Illinois. "Bernie has an exceptional background in gaming and financial management. We're very pleased to have her on the team." said John Jagunich, president and general manager of Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis.

Phelps has more than 27-years of gaming experience having worked with Harrah's Casinos in Atlantic City, Joliet and in New Orleans. He's also worked with the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and Hollywood Casino in Aurora, Illinois. His impressive gaming expertise includes working with table games, slot marketing, and casino management. He has also been an executive host as well as an executive host manager. "Joe offers us invaluable gaming experience from a variety of levels of operations from very competitive markets. We're fortunate to have him aboard," said Senior Director of Gaming Jeff Avena, at Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis.

The Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis and Hollywood Hotel offers 291 guest rooms, 1,100 new slot machines, 20 unique table games, and a new 6-table poker room. There are four restaurants including Tuscany Steaks and Seafood, Jackpot Java, the Bridges Grill, and the all new Epic Buffet. Hollywood also features the state's only Arnold Palmer Golf Course ranked among the top ten courses in the state by Golf Digest magazine.

The fully renovated land-based casino has live weekend entertainment venues including Shaker's martini and piano bar, the new Club Royale music and dance club, and monthly concerts in the Cypress Ball Room. Legendary jazz musician Pete Fountain performs every Tuesday and Wednesday in the Oak Royale room. Hollywood is the only casino resort on the Coast with all amenities on site along with 17,000 square feet of function space and nine private meeting rooms.

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