Frontier Casino St. Joseph Missouri

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Jo Frontier Casino: Frontier Casino in St Joseph, MO - See 60 traveler reviews, 4 candid photos, and great deals for Saint Joseph, MO, at Tripadvisor. Jo Frontier Casino Reviewed February 23, 2020 via mobile We were in the Saint Joseph area and wanted to check out the Frontier Casino on the way back to the city. As soon as we entered the complex we noticed a strong sewer or river small in the entrance / lobby area that made us a little sick.

This is a list of casinos in Missouri.

List of casinos[edit]

**List of casinos in the U.S. state of Missouri**
Casino	City	County	State	District
Ameristar	St. Charles	St. Charles	Missouri
Ameristar	Kansas City	Clay	Missouri
Argosy Casino Riverside	Riverside	Platte	Missouri	Formerly Argosy V
Casino KC	Kansas City	Jackson	Missouri	Formerly Hilton Flamingo & Isle of Capri Kansas City
Century Casino Cape Girardeau	Cape Girardeau	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	Formerly Isle Casino Cape Girardeau
Century Casino Caruthersville	Caruthersville	Pemiscot	Missouri	Formerly Lady Luck Casino Caruthersville
Harrah's	North Kansas City	Clay	Missouri
Hollywood Casino St. Louis	Maryland Heights	St. Louis	Missouri
Isle of Capri	Boonville	Cooper	Missouri
Mark Twain	La Grange	Lewis	Missouri
Lumière Place	St. Louis	Missouri
River City Casino	St. Louis	Missouri
President Casino Laclede's Landing	St. Louis	Missouri	Closed 2010
St. Jo Frontier Casino	St. Joseph	Buchanan	Missouri

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Media related to Casinos in Missouri at Wikimedia Commons

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St. Jo Frontier Casino
Location	St. Joseph, Missouri
Total gaming space	18,000 sq ft (1,700 m²)
Notable restaurants	Winner's, River's Edge
Casino type	Riverboat
Owner	Affinity Gaming
Coordinates	39°49′56″N95°01′01″W / 39.83222°N 95.01694°W
Website	StJoFrontierCasino.com

St. Jo Frontier Casino is a riverboat casino on the edge of the Missouri River in St. Joseph, Missouri owned by Affinity Gaming.

The casino on July 19, 2011 during the 2011 Missouri River floods which temporarily closed the casino.

History[edit]

William M. Grace[edit]

The casino is the second smallest in Missouri and was one of original four casinos that opened after Missouri legalized riverboat gambling in 1993. It is in its second structure since William M. Grace opened it on June 24, 1994.

When it opened it appropriated a tourist riverboat The Spirit of St. Joseph that operated out of Riverside Park immediately west of downtown St. Joseph under the Interstate 229 (Missouri)viaduct. It did not have authorization to have slot machines and only card games could be played. The riverboat went on excursions on the river which was to cause some jurisdiction issues with neighboring Kansas.

Missouri voters on Nov. 8, 1994 approved slots. In 1996 the Missouri Gaming Commission ruled that gambling boats did not have to cruise the river and in fact could be within 1,000 feet (300 m) of the river (if river water touched them). Missouri casinos were to build 'boats in moats' in concrete basins.

Grace built an $18 million 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m²) boat in a moat three miles (5 km) north of its original location in 1998. The opening was delayed after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled the voters had to approve the boat in moat concept which they did in 1998.^[1]

Herbst Gaming[edit]

Grace died in 2005 and Herbst Gaming acquired it along with Grace casinos in La Grange, Missouri and Osceola, Iowa for $287 million.^[2] Herbst Gaming which made $16 million in renovations including a Bougainvillea restaurant and live entertainment venue.^[3]

Herbst Gaming changed its name to Affinity Gaming in 2011.