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Pinnacle Entertainment, which owns a lot of small casinos in the eastern US, will be bought primarily by Penn National Group, which also owns a lot of similar casinos, and also owns the Tropicana and M in Las Vegas.

Here is the way the existing Pinnacle casinos will be distributed:



The blue will go to Penn National, and the red will go to Boyd, which operates the Coast casinos, among others.

Penn National's best known brands are Hollywood Casino and Argosy Casino, but they have others, as well: http://www.marqueerewards.com/Locations

Pinnacle's myChoice Rewards program will be going away, but it's not clear what will happen to player statuses and reward credits.

Penn National operates Marquee Rewards, and Boyd operates the B Connected program.

With this acquisition, set to be completed in the summer of 2018, Penn National will operate 41 casinos, which will be second to Caesars.

However, 35 of those 41 casinos will be in the central or eastern time zones, with the only exceptions being properties in San Diego, Las Vegas (2), northeast Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado. They also have no properties in the Atlantic City market, nor will they after the Pinnacle purchase.

Caesars also has more tourist-friendly locations, such as Lake Tahoe, North Carolina (near Smokey Mountain National Park), and Atlantic City.

Most of Penn's properties will be in locations primarily appealing to locals.