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Contact: Jacqueline Peterson

Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.

(702) 494-4829

HARRAH’S ENTERTAINMENT INTRODUCES INTERACTIVE MICROSOFT SURFACE APPLICATIONS AT THE XHIBITION BAR IN HARRAH’S RESORT ATLANTIC CITY

LAS VEGAS – August 12, 2009 – A subsidiary of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., unveiled Microsoft Surface™ in the Xhibition Bar at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City complete with a set of customized applications built by Harrah’s. The seven units deployed in Xhibition Bar are in addition to the 6 units deployed last year by Harrah’s at the iBar in the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Harrah’s was the first company to deploy a suite of customized applications for Microsoft Surface and to install the tables in entertainment venues, providing guests with uniquely personalized and engaging social experiences.

“The Microsoft Surface units and our custom applications allow us to offer an immersive, interactive experience for our guests,” said Katrina Lane, senior vice president and CTO, Harrah’s Entertainment. “Harrah’s Entertainment continues to develop unique, new entertainment options to give our customers even more compelling reasons to visit our casinos.”

Microsoft Surface is an innovative computing platform that responds to touch, natural hand gestures and real-world objects placed on the display, providing effortless interaction with information and digital content in a simple and intuitive way. With a large, 360-degree, horizontal user interface, it offers a unique gathering place where multiple users can collaboratively and simultaneously interact with content and each other. Microsoft Surface provides Harrah’s guests with an unprecedented social experience that infuses the best of technology with the best of Atlantic City nightlife.

Harrah’s has created an innovative suite of custom applications to provide guests with hip new ways to create their very own ultimate entertainment experience in an ultra-lounge venue leveraging the unique interaction that Microsoft Surface enables.

• Hip-notic is a video application that allows guests to view the latest and most popular on line videos.

• Groups and individuals can play High Roller, a play-for-fun bowling game, and Last Call, a musical memory game. Leaderboards add excitement as guests compete with one another across Las Vegas and Atlantic City to see who can climb to the top of the scoreboard.

In addition to Harrah’s unique applications the units also feature a photo application and a virtual concierge application developed by Microsoft that Harrah’s customized for Atlantic City.

• In See and Be Scene, guests can view photos featuring Harrah's Resort Nightlife and celebrity sightings at Harrah's hot-spots like Xhibition Bar and The Pool without leaving their seat at the Xhibition Bar.

• Virtual AC provides a virtual tour of Atlantic City on Surface, letting their fingers be the guide. Guests will be able to get information on the latest events and attractions at Caesars, Bally’s, Harrah’s and Showboat.

Guests have launched over 500 applications on the seven Microsoft Surface units in the Xhibition Bar everyday. High Roller, the most popular application, is played over 13 hours each day and guests spend nine hours each day watching online videos on Hip-notic.

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. is the world's largest provider of branded casino entertainment. Since its beginning in Reno, Nevada, more than 71 years ago, Harrah's has grown through development of new properties, expansions and acquisitions, and now owns or manages casinos on four continents. The Company's properties operate primarily under the Harrah's®, Caesars® and Horseshoe® brand names; Harrah's also owns the London Clubs International family of casinos and the World Series of Poker®. Harrah's Entertainment is focused on building loyalty and value with its customers through a unique combination of great service, excellent products, unsurpassed distribution, operational excellence and technology leadership. Harrah’s is committed to environmental sustainability and energy conservation and recognizes the importance of being a responsible steward of the environment. For more information, please visit .

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